lassoed

Example Sentences

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The officer then fashioned a noose from a yellow rope and lassoed it around the top of the gator’s mouth.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 31, 2023

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 all cheered as brazen cowboys lassoed bundles of two-by-fours and hauled them off in their pickup trucks.

From Salon • Sep. 24, 2021

“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

When they got within spitting distance of the car, they threw the rope and pretty much lassoed the Recruiter.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline