Example Sentences

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In addition to Pino, another native Cuban on the men’s team, Rojas, was roping line drives into center and, later, snagging shots to short on that recent Wednesday afternoon.

From Washington Times • May 12, 2018

Mary V studied his reply carefully, keeping silence until Johnny had loaded the other cases and was roping them to the travois frame.

From Skyrider by Fischer, Anton Otto

Bill, a loose-jointed, middle-aged, flat-footed, large-handed, semi-loafer, with keen gray eyes, looked up from a bundle he was roping.

From Rolf in the Woods by Seton, Ernest Thompson

Lorry was roping the packs next morning when Dorothy appeared in her new silver-gray corduroy riding-habit—a surprise that she had kept for an occasion.

From Jim Waring of Sonora-Town Tang of Life by Knibbs, Henry Herbert

On going forward we found that Bill had killed a deer and was roping it on his pack-horse.

From The Young Forester by Grey, Zane