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

People in the gallery — including you — get visually lassoed by the rings, almost as if being perceptually tethered against the buoyant possibility of floating away.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2024

He was flushed from the pocket, stepped forward and scrambled to his left, then Edwards lassoed him and spun him to the ground.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 12, 2023

So my partner and I went about reclaiming our apartment, scavenging for secondhand artworks at an antique shop where she lassoed an affordable piece of found-object art.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2022

Sheed snapped his section of rope like a whip, and it lassoed Mr. Flux’s left arm.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles