roper
Example Sentences
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“I was a bull rider, a champion sheep and dairy cow showman, a team roper and calf roper.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2023
Her husband, the retired roper Charly Crawford, stayed at home in Stephenville, Texas, with daughter Kaydence.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2021
Clark McEntire was a three-time world champion steer roper, tough as dirt, who never told his children he loved them.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2018
Soon he was riding his bike the way a roper rides a horse: in brief bursts of speed that give way to daredevil maneuvers.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 28, 2018
Even though Roosevelt wasn’t a crack shot, the best roper, or the best horseback rider, he had something else that the cowboys valued even more.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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