Herd

//hɜːd//

"Herd" in a Sentence (31 examples)

The cowboys rounded up the herd of cattle.

Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

The dogs help herd the cattle.

One black sheep ruins the whole herd.

Maybe the whole herd will go somewhere else to search for water.

The newborn calf couldn't catch up with the herd running from the jaguar.

In some countries, when a herd of elephants encroaches upon the agricultural livelihoods of farmers, the elephants can be exterminated.

A herd of Friesian cattle is grazing in a field in the British countryside.

I refuse to herd geese any longer with that girl.

"I refuse to herd geese any longer with that girl." "For what reason?" asked the old King. "Because she does nothing but annoy me all day long," replied Curdken.

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a herd of cattle

a herd of sheep

a herd of goats

The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea.

Zakouma is the last place on Earth where you can see more than a thousand elephants on the move in a single, compact herd.

Zebras can also be called a herd or a zeal.

I was never one to follow the herd.

But far more numerous was the Herd of ſuch, / Who think too little, and who talk too much.

You can never interest the common herd in the abstract question.

There were herds of leather sofas and enough computers to ensure that no prospective matriculant or visiting parent could enter a room and not see at least one available keyboard, not even in the dining hall or field house.

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.

Any predator that preys on animals that herd or school, has to be able to single out one individual to attack.

He is employed to herd the goats.

I’ll herd among his Friends, and ſeem One of the Number, […]

"[W]hy, I say, oh stranger, dost thou think that I herd here with barbarians lower than the beasts?"

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

Near-synonym: herdsman

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.

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.

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

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