How to Use herder in a Sentence

herder

noun

• This annual cycle meant Basque herders spent their summers alone in the hills.
  — Cheryl Oestreicher, The Conversation, 20 June 2024
• Local cashmere herders in Central Asia randomly kill endangered snow leopards to preserve their goats, which feed luxury markets abroad.
  — Erik Vance, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2017
• Whomst was the nerf herder who thought that this was a good idea?
  — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 12 Nov. 2020
• And that’s paying around $4,000 a month to his herders now.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
• In Kenya, a herder tries to warm up on the base of Mount Kenya in August.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
• Just watch out for alpaca and llama herders on the route.
  — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 June 2019
• But in this group, only the female herders had high rates.
  — Max G. Levy, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024
• Shepherds and camel herders crossed the frontier freely.
  — Margherita Stancati, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2017
• Rain has fallen since then, but the herders have refused to leave the ranches.
  — Tom Odula, The Seattle Times, 12 July 2017
• For a herder in a dry country, survival depends on the rains.
  — Russ Juskalian, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2015
• The movie, which told the love story of two sheep herders in Wyoming, was a tender exploration of love.
  — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 21 Aug. 2019
• The goats will be corralled, and a herder will oversee their efforts throughout the day.
  — USA TODAY, 8 July 2019
• In June, when the weather gets warmer, the goats naturally shed the fleece and the herders gather up the cashmere.
  — Olivia Martin, Town & Country, 25 Oct. 2018
• Now this stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder looks good enough to eat.
  — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2022
• Farmers and sheep herders were out in their fields, wondering what the fine ash falling from the sky was.
  — Leah Sottile, Longreads, 17 May 2018
• Hindus claimed the herders were encroaching on their lands.
  — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2018
• Porter left North Carolina for the dry air of Texas and livedwith a sheep herder who had Greensboro ties.
  — Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2019
• In fact, nomadic herders have lived off the vast expanses of grass in the Rift Valley for centuries.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 24 July 2017
• Growing up in a time of subsistence and change, Aiken learned to be a reindeer herder as a young teenager.
  — Shady Grove Oliver, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Jan. 2020
• Mongolian herders tend to their focks of cashmere goats.
  — Valentina Zarya, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2017
• In Greece, some dogs were not put to work as hunters, herders, and guards but were bred without a practical purpose in mind.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
• My job as on-site editor is that of a cat herder, with very talented cats.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2021
• The species is threatened by herders and shepherds whose flocks compete with the species for resources, as well as hunters who target the species for sport.
  — Thomas Leavy, CBS News, 22 June 2018
• Raad al-Ghali, a buffalo herder in the historic marshland of Chibayish, sits with a cousin.
  — Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2021
• Legend has it that coffee was discovered by a goat herder around 850 AD in what is now Ethiopia.
  — Erica Tennenhouse, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2018
• Large herding pens were the perfect environment for the virus to pass from camel to camel and then into camel herders.
  — Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2020
• That hasn’t stopped traders and rival herders from leveraging the mine to barter down the price for local animals.
  — TIME, 14 May 2024
• After weeks of drought, the single night of rain brought more tragedy to Safiya Abdullahi, a goat and camel herder in Somaliland.
  — David Bruckmeier, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2022
• Near the Kenyan town of Isiolo on Thursday, one young camel herder swung a stick at them, with little effect.
  — Elias Meseret, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2020
• There was also a sheep herder who, I was told, was paid by valley farmers to mind their flocks in the summer and harvest wool and milk for cheese.
  — Mike Eckel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024