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How can you use “lariat” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

A cowboy swings his lariat before a rearing white horse and, for a second, you're caught by the power and careful balance of the tableau.
The second transesterification results in exon ligation with the release of lariat RNA complexed with the intron-encoded protein.
The branch point is characterised by a rather weak consensus sequence YURAY [ 4 ] . In the first step of splicing the 2' hydroxyl of an adenosine of the branch point attacks the phosphate at the 5' splice site, producing a free 5' exon and a lariat intermediate.
During the second step, the 3' hydroxyl of the 5' exon attacks the phosphate at the 3' splice site, yielding a ligated mRNA and a lariat intron.
Our word lariat comes from this Mexican word with the definite article prefixed and the final vowel dropped.