Example Sentences

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Using long fishing poles with tiny lassos at their tips, they gently captured them by their strong necks, placed them in coolers, and documented the exact branch or stump where they found each lizard.

From Science Daily • Oct. 9, 2023

There was line dancing and trick ropers, twirling lassos and mechanical bulls, bucking riders and stilt-walkers.

From Slate • May 30, 2023

The rider on horseback catches up and lassos Lester, which then runs into the median and hops a guardrail onto the freeway’s southbound shoulder before it is stopped.

From Seattle Times • May 22, 2023

Not to the police: “We do not use lassos nor do we plan to use them anytime in the future,” said Lt.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2017

Decor’s a bit...country: rodeo posters and horseshoes and cowboy hats all over the walls, lassos and saddles hanging from the ceiling.

From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone