How to Use sheep in a Sentence

sheep

noun

• The sheep walked to the sound of their jangling neck bells.
  — CNN, 24 Oct. 2021
• Goats, yaks and sheep come by the tents from time to time.
  — Ziyu Zhang, CNN, 10 June 2022
• Her sheep, raised for their meat, graze at the foot of the mountain.
  — New York Times, 1 Oct. 2021
• Goats and sheep look up from a munch to watch a car drive by.
  — Jill Barth, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• 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
• His mother, Judy, learned to fly a plane to muster sheep.
  — New York Times, 16 Oct. 2021
• 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
• In the first, a mayor placed them in the park to keep the grass trimmed (alongside some sheep, now gone).
  — Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Over the years, the farm has had sheep, pigs, chickens, and some beef cattle, Cann said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Mars clouds have wispy features, more like a gauzy veil than a fluffy sheep.
  — Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Guests can sign up for yoga in the barn next door or help feed the goats, sheep, and llamas on site.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2021
• 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
• Fields of barley, hay and oats; some sheep, some cows, some pigs; a kitchen garden.
  — Laurie Hertzel, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
• How about monsters that eat cities and androids that dream of electric sheep?
  — Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 9 Feb. 2025
• How about other livestock, such as swine, sheep, goats, and horses?
  — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 7 Mar 2025