How to use shepherd in a sentence

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• The shepherds compelled the stray sheep into the fold as night began to fall.From the entry compel
• The shepherds use dirtbikes to move about the ranch, patrolling distant fields and pastures.From the entry dirtbike
• Under an oak were lying asleep a pair of shepherds.From the entry lie
• The shepherd was up all night, lambing her young ewes.From the entry lamb
• Their traditional clothing and simple way of life reflected their bucolic roots as a community of shepherds and farmers.From the entry bucolic
• There was a shepherd close by.From the entry by
• One cottager in particular interests me: Henry Howsden, born to John the shepherd and his wife, Mary.2026 July 29, Nic Wilson, Country diary: In poet John Clare’s garden, I contemplate my ancestor who lived here too (in The Guardian). From the entry puddock
• The majority were male, with breeds including basenji, boerboel, German shepherd, labrador retriever, local, maltese and pitbull.2024, Steven Kakooza, Wilfred Eneku, Esther Nabatta, Eddie M Wampande, Paul Ssajjakambwe, et al., “Integrating multi-wet laboratory…. From the entry basenji
• I arrived with my kooky shepherd shtick, but there was no perky lambiness about this lot.2024 March 9, Michael Donkor, “‘You’re gay, sir, innit?’: As a teacher, I kept my sexuality a secret – until I couldn’t”, in The Guardian. From the entry lambiness
• Schumacher sat surrounded by cast members in a semicircle, like a shepherd and his flock.2015 November 15, Melena Ryzik, “Joel Schumacher, Directing ‘Neighborhood 3,’ Gets an Education”, in New York Times. From the entry postpreview
• Routine marked out the path of the shepherds and the flock ovinely followed.2015 [1938], “Forty years of evolution theory”, in Joseph Needham, Walter Pagel, editors, Background to Modern Science, reprint edition…. From the entry ovinely
• An ever-watchful shepherd not only looks out for bad men and bad teachings.2014, Nathan Brown, An Open Door: Evangelism through the Spiritual Gifts, page 64. From the entry ever-watchful
• Later that morning, they wrapped Ian in a wildebeest skin and buried him near a shepherd tree.2013, Eleanor Morse, White Dog Fell From the Sky. From the entry wildebeest
• The djoundi with the fat red moustache grunts: "You heard, shepherd: what are you doing here?"2004, Anouar Benmalek, translated by Joanna Kilmartin, The Lovers of Algeria, page 15. From the entry djoundi
• Mark describes Jesus’ compassion from the point of view of sheep who are lost without their shepherd.2002, Mark G. Boyer, “Epiphany to the Baptism of the Lord”, in Waiting in Joyful Hope: Daily Reflections for Advent and Christmas…. From the entry tour group
• Peter's flock needing the protection of the pope as their shepherd.1984, Wm. M. Daly & al., The Republic of St. Peter: The Birth of the Papal State, 680–825, page 190. From the entry Ravennan
• The cave, abandoned long ago by shepherds, is draped with weird symbols, death masks, amulets and gargoyles.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 68. From the entry death mask
• Nomadizing Hungarian shepherds and fishermen were perhaps the first people who cooked a gulyás in their bogrács.1965, Esquire, volume 64, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 130, columns 1–2. From the entry bogrács
• She was offered a mother German shepherd dog that is suckling a litter of pups.1955 September 2, The News Tribune, 72nd year, number 338, Tacoma, Wash., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11, column 8. From the entry dogmilk
• “Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?” Shepherd FARLEY abounds in it.1936 May 23, “TOO MUCH FARLEY”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry sheephood
• Even his amazing miserliness was passed over acceptedly, for of such are the kingdom of shepherd millionaires.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry acceptedly
• It appears that shepherds have not changed more than sheep in the process of time.1903, Mary Austin, “The Mesa Trail”, in The Land of Little Rain, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC…. From the entry tractile
• Frank was fourteen years old and had both shepherd and bulldog blood in his veins.1903 July 18, “Landmark at Courthouse Gone”, in Wisconsin State Journal, last edition, volume 101, number 93, Madison, Wis., →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry kennelry
• Zappa had been “astonished” by the recordings of the cantu a tenore, the chilling polyphonic singing quartets fashioned traditionally by shepherds.2023 May 23, Jeff Biggers, In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey in Italy, Melville House, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry cantu a tenore
• The old woman walked behind them waving them on like a shepherd, but cackling in the most unshepherdly manner.2015, Robert Denethon, Steam Submarine: Into Ultima Thule, page 153. From the entry unshepherdly
• He felt himself so weak-handed with only Robinson, who might leave him, and a shepherd lad he had just hired.2014, Charles Reade, Delphi Complete Works of Charles Reade. From the entry weak-handed
• The shepherd may have carried with him a bag of pebbles, one pebble for each of his sheep.2014, David Cycleback, A Brief Introduction to Ancient Counting Systems For The Non-Mathematician (page 5). From the entry one-for-one
• “No, the lord is a shepherd,” a flockmate contradicts.2007 June 21, Amy Virshup, “Newly Released”, in New York Times. From the entry flockmate
• In the mountains too angels sang to the lonely shepherds.1998, María del Carmen Boza, Scattering the ashes. From the entry angelless
• So they will be one flock with one shepherd.1995, Green Key Books, God's Word to the Nations (John 10:16). From the entry flock
• The shepherds, however, had to have their meals separately during the day, but their evening meal together with the flockmaster.1983, Michael Lawson Ryder, Sheep & Man, page 160. From the entry flockmaster
• The marriage of the goddess to the shepherd makes him the shepherd-king; Heaven and earth are wed in their embrace.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry shepherd king
• A German shepherd,” added Glen, in amplification.1972, Eleanor Spence, “Resolutions”, in The Nothing Place, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, published 1973, →ISBN, page 225. From the entry whadja
• One applicant, for example, had shepherded 25 lederhosed children in the Austrian mountains every day from seven to five.1960 August 26, “Nursery School Names ‘Nanny’ For Early Class”, in The Journal-News, volume 71, number 94, Nyack, N.Y., page twenty-four. From the entry lederhosed
• It is not quite clear what numbers these additions displace or whether the shepherd has really adopted a “quattuor-decimal” system.1932 October 26, “Saturday Competition: New Words”, in The Manchester Guardian, number 26,875, page 18, columns 5–6. From the entry quattuordecimal
• Kruger, working dogs, excepting collies and shepherds, all terriers, all toys and groups, one, two and six; Mrs.1930, The Dog Fancier, volume 39, page 5, column 3. From the entry dachshunde
• Now the soldier carries but one spear, the shepherd one crook, the pedestrian one staff, the farmer one pike.[1925], Arthur Watkins, “Ley-men”, in The Old Straight Track; Its Mounds, Beacons, Moats, Sites, and Mark Stones, London: Methuen, →OCLC…. From the entry dodman

Meaning of shepherd

1. noun A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.
2. noun A male sheep tender.
3. noun Someone who watches over, looks after, or guides somebody.

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Questions about shepherd in a sentence

How do you use shepherd in a sentence?

Shepherd is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The shepherds compelled the stray sheep into the fold as night began to fall.”

What is a short sentence with shepherd?

“There was a shepherd close by.”

What does shepherd mean?

Shepherd means a person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.