lassoed
Example Sentences
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The 33-year-old purred around out wide, scored the try that started the hosts' second-half blitz and lassoed Rotimi Segun with a crucial try-saving tackle before the break.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
An offense that hasn’t scored fewer than 24 points this season — and averaged 39.7 per game — lassoed the Longhorns and got help from a sometimes porous “D.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
Davis’s eight novels bear little relationship to anything that might be lassoed into the category of “contemporary fiction,” and “Aurelia, Aurélia” — her first work of nonfiction — is also an outlier.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2022
“We’ve got this thing kind of lassoed, and we just kind of need to keep holding on to it with what we’ve got,” fire behavior analyst Steven Volman said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2021
Then, taking the length of rope from her bucket, she fashioned a loop at the end, and with one expert throw lassoed the doorknob at the far side of the room.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
