Example sentences for: roped

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

  • I wondered whether on British farms the common word for castrate was the same as here: cut . Presumably the other terms we had heard in use on the mesa, flank for `heave the roped calf onto the ground' and hogtie for `truss it up with a pickin' string ' while the well-trained roping horse keeps the ketch rope taut, are not used, as the practices are not, in Britain.

  • One excerpt , in the form of a screenplay fragment, floats Nancy Reagan's view that Jane Wyman roped the Gipper into marriage by feigning a suicide attempt.

  • Elián has been roped into someone else's game: He is the center of an "international tug of war" in the WP lede and a front-page LAT caption, and the "center of a political tug-of-war" in the USAT . The NYT turns him into "the central object in a tug-of-war."

  • If a big calf or steer was roped with one of these rawhide lariats attached solidly to the saddle horn, American style, and the roping horse came to an abrupt halt or sat back so that the roped animal hit the rope at a run, the lasso tended to stretch like a rubber band and then snap, possibly springing back to knock an eye out of the cowboy.

  • And Bush has roped what seems like every political journalist in America into a guessing game about his actual beliefs.


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