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How to use herd in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Herd means a number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper. Example: “Herds of buses spread across the streets.”

Examples of herd by meaning

nounA number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.

  • a herd of cattle
  • a herd of sheep
  • a herd of goats

nounAny collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.

  • Zakouma is the last place on Earth where you can see more than a thousand elephants on the move in a single, compact herd.2007 March, J. Michael Fay, “Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma”, in National Geographic, section 47
  • Zebras can also be called a herd or a zeal.2019 June 6, “A Gaggle, a Confusion and a Conspiracy - Bizarre Animal Collective Group Names”, in BBC, archived from the original on 01 Apr...

nounA collection of things, especially vehicles.

  • Herds of buses spread across the streets.

verbTo unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.

  • Sheep herd on many hills.
  • The women bunched up in little droves and let their tongues clack, and the men herded together and passed a jug around and, to tell the truth, let their tongues clack too.1953, Janice Holt Giles, The Kentuckians
  • Any predator that preys on animals that herd or school, has to be able to single out one individual to attack.1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 167

verbTo manage, care for or guard a herd.

  • He is employed to herd the goats.

verbTo move, or be moved, in a group. (of both animals and people).

  • On alighting at the station, we were all herded over the footbridge and through a side exit.

nounSomeone who keeps a group of domestic animals.

  • John Dodds, the herd who bode in the place, was standing at the door, and he looked to see who was on the road so late.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
  • Any talent which gives a good new thing to others is a miracle, but commentators have thought it extra miraculous that England's first known poet was an illiterate herd.2000, Alasdair Grey, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury, published 2002, page 38

verbTo move or drive a herd.

  • I heard the herd of cattle being herded home from a long way away.

More sentences with herd

  • The lions surrounded the deer herd so they had no way to escape.From the entry surround
  • The wolves circled the herd of deer.From the entry circle
  • Historically, Somalis were a nomadic people herding camels, goats, and sheep. Nowadays, many if not most Somalis are urbanized people.From the entry Somali
  • That's a mighty little herd you've got there.From the entry little
  • Women herded small livestocks such as goats and sheep.From the entry livestock
  • Managing volunteers from fourteen different organizations is like herding cats.From the entry herd cats
  • As the new editor, his job is to ride herd on the staff and check on the tone of the articles.From the entry ride herd on
  • The herd aiked his neat out to the leas.From the entry aik
  • You could outstink a herd of goats!From the entry outstink
  • The whole herd is out to pasture right now — the cows, calves, and heifers are out back, and the bulls are down by the creek.From the entry cow
  • The idea is to guide, manipulate, and herd them into the corral of ring-wing extremism.2025, Thomas Klikauer, “Communicating Conspiracy Fantasies”, in Savaş Çoban, Yasemin Giritli İnceoğlu, editors, Media, Populism and Hate…. From the entry anti-vaxxerism
  • Two of the final clips show a herd of ostriches running down a city street.2023 July 6, Melissa Goldin, Karena Phan, “Videos of lions and other animals roaming city streets have nothing to do with protests in…. From the entry Chongzuo
  • "The Magdalena Trail" was a cowboy's destination driving and herding cattle and sheep to the stockyards.2022, Outdoors Southwest, “Journey through New Mexico”, in Outdoors Southwest, retrieved 13 Sep 2023. From the entry driveway
  • It must feel like herding cats, with 20-or-so members and with the big five franchise owning groups.2021 January 13, Paul Clifton, “Delivering a basis for rail changes”, in RAIL. issue 922, page 32. From the entry herd cats
  • I was able to keep up with the herd and evade the Beast.2019, Conrad Taylor, PATH to FREEDOM: My Story of Perseverance. From the entry beast
  • The locals fished by herding fish into the sandy shallows and spearing them with their gidgees.2017, Thomas Wilson, Stepping Off: Rewilding and Belonging in the South-West. From the entry gidgee
  • Herds of mammophants pining for the fjords aren’t quite within the realm of what’s possible.2017 February 22, Mark Carnall, The Guardian. From the entry mammophant
  • Suddenly, it was time to go and our minders were herding us back onto the bus.2016 May 11, Anna Fifield, “I went to North Korea and was told I ask too many questions”, in The Washington Post, archived from the…. From the entry minder
  • And herding, not to put too fine a point on it, is when pollsters cheat.2015 June 24, Dan Hodges, “Why did the polls get it wrong at the general election? Because they lied”, in The Telegraph. From the entry herding
  • Streets and squares became banned for children after they had been invaded by herds of automobiles.2015, Yves Vanden Auweele, Elaine Cook, Jim Parry, Ethics and Governance in Sport: The Future of Sport Imagined, page 58. From the entry ludodiversity
  • They’d watched a herd of cat-sized lizards hunting massive elephantish creatures.2015, Tim Lebbon, Predator: Incursion, Titan Books, page 90. From the entry elephantish
  • At lower herd immunities, transmission occurs at increasingly lower vector densities.2014, Paul Reiter, “Surveillance and Control of Urban Dengue Vectors”, in Duane J. Gubler, Eng Eong Ooi, Subhash Vasudevan, Jeremy Farrar…. From the entry herd immunity
  • You are looking at the herd of springbok to your right, and you stray onto the middelmannetjie.2013, Deon Meyer, Dirt Busters: A Guide to Adventure Motorbiking, Cape Town: Tafelberg, →ISBN. From the entry middelmannetjie
  • Calloway's story was, why someone so glamourama was riding herd over a posse of captive graffiti artists.2012, Susan Andersen, Bending The Rules, →ISBN. From the entry glamourama
  • With war’s end, farmers found it possible to mechanize and expand their herds to produce more milk.2011, Cameron Clifford, Farms, Flatlanders, and Fords: A Story of People and Place in Rural Vermont 1890-2010. From the entry dairy farming
  • I looked over and saw Devon, crouched and ready to spring, giving him the herding eye.2010, Katz, Jon, A dog year : rescuing Devon, the most troublesome dog in the world, page 134. From the entry herding eye

Meaning of herd

  1. noun A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.
  2. noun Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.
  3. noun A crowd, a mass of people or things; a rabble.

Full definition of herd

Questions about herd in a sentence

How do you use herd in a sentence?
Herd is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Herds of buses spread across the streets.”
What is a short sentence with herd?
“a herd of cattle”
What does herd mean?
Herd means a number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: herd (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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