How to Use sheep in a Sentence

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• Goats, yaks and sheep come by the tents from time to time.
  — Ziyu Zhang, CNN, 10 June 2022
• The sheep are the stars of the show during Wool Week in the Shetland Islands.
  — Megan Specia Andrew Testa, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
• The sheep stayed in their pens, girls covered their faces.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• As a crowd of spectators cheered, some of the sheep pranced.
  — George Steinmetz Catherine Porter, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
• And a gun scope, for some reason, had been placed on top of the sheep.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 24 Aug. 2022
• Two sheep are tucked in and ready for bed in the twin beds beside him.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2023
• Joel might like to own a ranch and raise sheep someday.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 20 Feb. 2023
• Often, the sheep’s head is placed at the center of the platter.
  — New York Times, 26 June 2022
• The days are shorter, the air is crisp and the 40-acre sheep pasture has been dry for months.
  — Naoki Nitta, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Oct. 2022
• Cork trees dotted the vast grassland, and cows and sheep took in the shade beneath them.
  — Kristen De Groot, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2023
• My husband had to knock door to door to find a gun to be able to put the rest of the sheep out of their misery.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 1 May 2024
• Ramsay, 55, then jumped into the pen, startling some of the sheep.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 31 July 2022
• Motorists slowed for tractors and herds of sheep and cattle on the move.
  — Jane Ferguson, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
• The goats and sheep are being used to help reduce the risk of grass fires that could spread to nearby homes.
  — Jiovanni Lieggi, Fox News, 27 Apr. 2022
• After the high dose of ketamine the brains of these sheep completely stopped.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2023
• An Afar woman puts her sheep in their shelter for the night, in an area called Gega.
  — Michael Benanav, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2024
• There is no record of an attack on a human, goat, or sheep.
  — Aminatta Forna, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2024
• Noticing that the sheep and the doll were a similar color wasn’t racist.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2023
• The Vikings also cleared forests in order to use land for crops and sheep grazing.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 12 July 2022
• In fact, with their chickens, pigs, lambs, and sheep, the McNallys don't have to do a lot of shopping for food.
  — Kate Betts, ELLE Decor, 13 Apr. 2023
• By 1983, a passerby could spot sheep grazing on the would-be runways.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
• But not too many of us are using sheep to control lawn height these days.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 17 May 2024
• The main threats, said Rogers, are deer and elk, as well as a few domestic cattle and sheep.
  — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
• In the case of sheep, coyotes and dogs account for more than 70% of predator losses, and dog kills are on the rise.
  — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• At 8 years old, her drawing of sheep was purchased for $5 by the local priest.
  — Lyndi McNulty, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2024
• Feelings are hurt and then mended like the fences around the sheep enclosure.
  — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
• The children’s books featured cartoons of sheep and wolves.
  — Theodora Yu, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2022
• From February to June this year, Murdock said, the farm saved 60 sheep and 6 goats.
  — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Oct. 2022
• Other species of animals, such as sheep and goats, were also on the farm but have not shown signs of illness.
  — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
• Black Sheep stars Nathan Meister as Henry, a man who grew up on a sheep farm but developed a deep phobia of them.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024