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How to use rodeo in a sentence

26 example sentences · noun, verb

Rodeo means a gathering of cattle to be branded. Example: “You have to get out on a bull to succeed in a rodeo.”

More sentences with rodeo

  • You have to get out on a bull to succeed in a rodeo.From the entry get out
  • There were many competitors in the rodeo, but Kristy Blackheart outroped Natalie Hopalong.From the entry outrope
  • The company's new hires were nervous, but the veterans were self-assured because, as one summarized it, "this isn't our first rodeo."From the entry veteran
  • Ropings were a popular part of the rodeo show.From the entry roping
  • Many football, basketball, and hockey players, boxers, wrestlers, cage fighters, hunters, bikers, NASCAR drivers, matadors, and rodeo cowboys are adrenaline junkies.From the entry adrenaline junkie
  • Look, honey, this ain't my first rodeo, OK? I was doing this when you were in short pants.From the entry not one's first rodeo
  • Look, honey, this ain't my first rodeo, OK? I was doing this job when you were in diapers.From the entry in diapers
  • Ennis then marries his fianceé Alma (Williams), while Jack meets and marries rodeo rider Lureen (Hathaway).2025 June 20, Nick Levine, “'In every theatre, people would leave': How 'gay cowboy movie' Brokeback Mountain challenged Hollywood – and…. From the entry heartbreakingly
  • “McConnell has zero interest in presiding over another goat rodeo,” a second health care lobbyist told me.2017, Dylan Scott, Republicans wind up one last Hail Mary to repeal Obamacare. From the entry goat rodeo
  • No friggin' way was Dixie the dwarfette going to defeat Tressa Jayne Turner, rodeo queen.2007, Kathleen Bacus, Calamity Jayne and the Campus Caper, page 203. From the entry dwarfette
  • I should have known after a Monday like that, that Tuesday would be a veritable goat rodeo.2004, Todd A, Being Good. From the entry goat rodeo
  • I'm a man past his prime who's been to the rodeo and back, as they say.2002, Vincent Lardo, Lawrence Sanders, McNally's Chance. From the entry been to the rodeo
  • Also there are many open rodeos and bull ridings to go to.1996 October 11, Alex Wagenblast, “after hs-IA”, in rec.sport.rodeo (Usenet). From the entry bull riding
  • Since the mid-Seventies Wrangler have been the official jeans of professional rodeo riders.1996 October 5, Liza Millet, “These jeans were made for me”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry bull-rider
  • Watusis are recommended for crossing (with Longhorns) to obtain good roping cattle for the rodeo.1995, Marleen Felius, Cattle Breeds: An Encyclopedia, page 759. From the entry watusi
  • Becoming a carded pro rodeo photographer is no easy task.2023, Alyn Robert Brereton, Cowboys and Rodeos. From the entry carded
  • You've got a problem, and it's called rodeo.1978, Margot Early, The Truth About Cowboys, page 34. From the entry twelve-step program
  • I have to admit this outfit's doing it for me; I may or may not have been deflowered by a junior rodeo champion.2009, Community, spoken by Jeff Winger. From the entry deflower
  • The charreada, a type of rodeo popular among a growing number of middle-class Mexican-Americans, is facing criticism over some of its events.2008 June 12, Greg Bishop, “A Couple Grapple for Love, and Love of Achievement”, in New York Times. From the entry charreada
  • If I was to let every rodeo hand I pulled a bull off of buy me liquor, I'd have been an alcoholic long ago.2005 September 2, Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana, 00:51:25 from the start, in Brokeback Mountain, Universal City, Calif.: Focus Features…. From the entry buckaroo
  • This authoritative yet entertaining look at "glitterbillies", rodeo girls, & rhinestone cowboys features everything that helped Western wear captivate the entire world.2001, Holly George-Warren, Michelle Freedman, How the West was worn. From the entry glitterbilly
  • She's in love with a boy from the rodeo who pulls the rope on the chute when they let those suckers go.1975, Frank Zappa, San Ber'dino. From the entry sucker
  • But mutton busting quickly caught on and is now a staple at rodeos and fairs around the country, and even overseas, despite occasional opposition from animal rights groups.2020 February 1, John MacCormack, “Mutton busting a popular rodeo event for kids in San Antonio and nationwide”, in My San Antonio. From the entry mutton busting
  • Rodeo struggled up through layers of sleep and saw a jumble of beer cans and one-shot liquor bottles, cold pizza, ripped stockings and underwear and a hash pipe.2014, C. B. McKenzie, Bad Country: A Novel, →ISBN. From the entry one-shot
  • There is only a small window in which to proffer elevatorial banter - like the rodeo and that ne'er seen Luke Perry movie - about eight seconds .2011 May 24, Phineas Mollod, Jason Tesauro, The Modern Gentleman, 2nd Edition: A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy, and Vice, Ten Speed…. From the entry elevatorial
  • We're going to have a Whoop De Doo!" says the Weber Dental Manufacturing Company of Canton, Ohio, in a colorful 17 by 13 inch poster depicting a rodeo.1954, Dental Industry News - Volume 37, page 58. From the entry whoop de doo

Meaning of rodeo

  1. noun A gathering of cattle to be branded.
  2. noun A North American sport involving skills with horses, cows and other livestock.
  3. noun An entertainment event associated with the sport.

Full definition of rodeo

Questions about rodeo in a sentence

How do you use rodeo in a sentence?
Rodeo is used as a noun and verb. For example: “You have to get out on a bull to succeed in a rodeo.”
What is a short sentence with rodeo?
“You've got a problem, and it's called rodeo.”
What does rodeo mean?
Rodeo means a gathering of cattle to be branded.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rodeo (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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