How to Use lasso in a Sentence

lasso

1 of 2 verb
  • The cowboy lassoed the horse.
  • The men used rope to lasso the young deer, while Kutznig ran about a mile on the beach.
    — Saryn Chorney, PEOPLE.com, 18 July 2017
  • Terrified, the townsfolk lasso him and send him back to the farm where he was born.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • The roper must then catch up to the calf, lasso it around its neck, dismount the horse and run to the calf.
    — Tess Demeyer, Dallas News, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Casey Hayward had an end zone pick to lasso the Broncos’ first drive.
    — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Dec. 2020
  • Bumgarner competes in the team rope, where two riders lasso a calf.
    — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Relaxed and warm, head outside to meet the reindeer and try your hand at lassoing a pair of the antlers.
    — Smithsonian, 18 Sep. 2017
  • The team lassoed around the Earth before sling-shooting toward the moon.
    — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The mandate was to lasso viewers and herd them to Paramount+, where the shows will complete their runs.
    — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2022
  • Further down the line another black metal ban woulds be lassoed around the center of the roll and crimped.
    — Jeff Darcy, cleveland.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • None of these films lassoed any word of mouth, so don’t write the obituary on auteurist cinema just yet.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
  • At the top of the hour, a five-minute display features thousands of sparkling lights lassoing the tower.
    — Rick Steves, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2017
  • Vonn captioned a video of herself practicing lassoing a fake steer.
    — Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Now draw a convex shape that contains them all; lassoing them inside a big circle would suffice.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 19 May 2026
  • This may include lassoing your student loan debt to pursue bigger dreams down the road, such as buying a house.
    — James Brewer, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • Miles Davis just knew how to lasso his bandanna ever so artfully around his neck.
    — Mark Anthony Green, GQ, 2 July 2018
  • The officers were eventually able to distract the pig long enough to lasso it with a leash and place it in the back of a squad car.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Magazine ads to promote the games showed a cowboy lassoing a football.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 9 June 2026
  • The rider attempts to lasso the calf the instant it is released from the chute, so a winning time may be under two seconds.
    — New York Times, 2 Jan. 2022
  • Wonder Woman, for instance, can lasso away a teammate who’s in trouble.
    — Kris Holt, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • The paniolo were brave men whose job was to locate and lasso wild cattle, sometimes forcing them into the ocean to wear them down.
    — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 13 June 2019
  • Dumba is a prime trade candidate — perhaps to lasso that coveted center for the present.
    — Sarah McLellan, Star Tribune, 3 Oct. 2020
  • Sometimes a quiet moment in a rock 'n' roll show can lasso an audience's attention.
    — Ann Maloney, NOLA.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • This feud continues until the hand, returning in a black glove, gets tough with artist, punching him and dropping strings to lasso his head and arms.
    — J.r. Jones, Chicago Reader, 31 May 2018
  • Attempts to reason with the boar, as well as lassoing it, meanwhile, were unsuccessful.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The lights also had little effect on Ginuwine, with officers then trying to lasso the pony.
    — Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 22 Mar. 2023
  • My wife is doing her best to lasso the children for a trans-Atlantic Chat With Dad, to no avail.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 20 July 2018
  • Is Rue literally getting lassoed right now?
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 1 June 2026
  • Proenza Schouler sent models down the runway in sleek blazers that were lassoed by thin belts, which gave them a peplum-like appearance.
    — Alexis Bennett Parker, Vogue, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Chafin, a country boy from rural Ohio who lived in an RV last spring training, mimed lassoing the others.
    — Stephanie Apstein, SI.com, 29 Aug. 2017

lasso

2 of 2 noun
  • Any foe ensnared by this lasso, we are told, is obliged to confess the truth.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
  • One of the officers then roped her in with a lasso and walked her off the highway.
    — Mallorie Sullivan, Cincinnati.com, 14 Dec. 2017
  • But deputies had a trick up their sleeve — a secret weapon that is part grappling gun, part lasso.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
  • Wonder Woman wields her lasso again, but the film around her rings false.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Instead, the sun moved in a circle over my head, like it was caught in the loop of a spinning lasso.
    — Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Part of his role was to use his lasso skills to capture wild animals in Africa.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2018
  • The lore was a loop at the end of a rope, a lasso endlessly tossed, catching nothing.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The children play cowboy with a rope fashioned as a lasso and a wooden cutout in the shape of a steer.
    — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Attendees could try their hand at knocking over tin cans, throwing lassos and a ring toss.
    — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Some made the lasso, but couldn’t move themselves up the poles, whereas others just hung out on the ground below.
    — Tess Joosse, Science | AAAS, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Here’s where Magna’s trust speech comes in handy — Kelly drops her lasso and nuzzles one.
    — Richard Rys, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2021
  • Two Rorschach blobs as tall as men—one dark, the other a bright copper and blue—cast lassos at each other.
    — Walker Mimms, The New York Review of Books, 23 May 2026
  • Normally the jet stream winds around the vortex and acts as a lasso of sorts, keeping the cold air trapped inside.
    — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2021
  • Sellers roped them all with the kind of vocal lasso that genes and Music Row don’t hand a gal.
    — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 July 2017
  • Six-seven is just a lasso looped by fate around two adjacent integers on the number line.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Here are some of our favorites, including—no kidding—a magic lasso.
    — National Geographic, 12 Aug. 2017
  • Boon’s clip and the raw footage match up and expose Pesina’s lasso story as a fabrication.
    — David L. Craddock, Ars Technica, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Its fundamental tool is the lasso, formed by passing one end of a rope through a small loop (the honda) at the other end.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2015
  • The sculpture depicts the cowboy leaning against a tree, a lasso in hand, and a somber or tired expression on his face.
    — Olivia Young, CBS News, 19 June 2026
  • Presumably that would involve having Gal Gadot once again wield the lasso of truth.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 29 Aug. 2022
  • There is also piales en lienzo where a charro on a horse throws a lasso at the rear legs of a horse without bringing it to the ground.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Aug. 2021
  • Her deep investment has put that 10-figure dream within range of her golden lasso.
    — Yohana Desta, Vanity Fair, 7 May 2026
  • Peterson stood at one end of the pond with a lasso and drove the deer toward Hays at the other end, Sgt.
    — USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Of course, the snake had reason to be ornery, since cult leader Cyrus had injected it with crank and waved it over his head like a lasso.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 June 2023
  • The Bolas spider creates a silk lasso to catch fluttering moths.
    — Kate Siber, Outside, 21 Oct. 2025
  • For his part, Andoh’s voice works as a kind of lasso, drawing the rhythms into a packed unit through an allegiance to meter.
    — Randall Roberts, latimes.com, 3 Sep. 2017
  • In other versions of this story, Pesina has said Boon suggested the lasso.
    — David L. Craddock, Ars Technica, 8 Oct. 2022
  • There’re plenty of places to tie the lasso in Texas, but an Alamo City wedding is one to remember.
    — Rhyma Castillo, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Also, is that Enzo with a funky mustache wrapped up in Da'Dream's magic lasso?
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2020
  • But in reality, the chatter might more accurately be framed as a loop, with the far ends bending back on themselves like a lasso.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 4 Nov. 2021

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