roper
Example Sentences
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Professional rodeo athletes like Shad Mayfield, a cattle roper who’s ranked among the best in the world, make up a new legion of role models for Black children.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2022
Her husband, the retired roper Charly Crawford, stayed at home in Stephenville, Texas, with daughter Kaydence.
From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2021
Griffin was a team roper in high school rodeos and for a while afterward and he still rides occasionally at stepfather Fred Pearce’s ranch between Tatum and Roswell, New Mexico.
From Washington Times • Apr. 23, 2019
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
Filip with his mechanical dogs had been the roper, used to draw Jordie in, while Margit, Saskia, and the clerks at the trade office had all been shills in on the scam.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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