How to Use sheepherder in a Sentence

sheepherder

noun

• Do yourself a favor and pause to talk to the sheepherders.
  — Alex Schechter, National Geographic, 4 Nov. 2019
• Her father, a Basque sheepherder, had settled in the area in 1947 along with many of his countrymen.
  — Elizabeth Zach, sacbee, 24 Mar. 2018
• But then the two of them bond and, with the logic of a fairy tale, Babe goes on to win the all-important sheepherder’s competition.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Sep. 2020
• On my paternal side, I am born for Naaneesht’ezhi Dine’é, an old Zuni clan, some of whom were sheepherders.
  — Parvannah Lee, Teen Vogue, 22 Nov. 2018
• His father was a sheepherder and his mother ran a hotel in the state’s small capital.
  — Natalie Andrews, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2018
• The next day, the sheepherder checked the traps to discover one containing the first wolverine ever captured in Utah.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Mar. 2022
• In the most recent video, Dr. Naveed Sadozai describes pulling off a highway in Afghanistan, hoping to vaccinate sheepherders in a camp.
  — Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 20 Oct. 2017
• The Basque sheepherders who toiled here from the 1850s onward left lonely musings carved into the region’s aspen trees.
  — Sara Lessley, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
• Afterward, get in line for a sandwich or a loaf of bread, originally from a Basque sheepherder’s recipe, at Schat’s Bakkery in Bishop.
  — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 10 Oct. 2021
• The shot fired at Jack Dutton (Darren Mann) by the trespassing sheepherder apparently missed the cowboy, but hit his horse.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 28 Dec. 2022
• To view these almost-overgrown messages and art today, our small group tramped through prickly underbrush and tried to imagine the hard, solitary lives the sheepherders led.
  — Sara Lessley, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
• Sporting a fancy robe, the former sheepherder is indulging in expensive cigars, champagne, and a pair of prostitutes.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2023
• Over the centuries, the region drew iron miners, sheepherders, and alpinists, but its isolation dissuaded many from planting roots.
  — John Briley, National Geographic, 9 Apr. 2019
• In a 2000 report by Central California Legal Services, ninety percent of sheepherders reported that they weren’t given a day off over the entire year.
  — Gabriel Thompson, Longreads, 17 May 2017
• Between individual sheepherders there are sometimes 40 or 50 miles.
  — Gabriel Thompson, Longreads, 17 May 2017
• At first, this appears to be an understandable artistic choice: Ennis and Jack, who meet as summer sheepherders on Brokeback Mountain, are rough, uneducated boys, unused to expressing their deepest feelings.
  — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 4 June 2018
• Today’s festival includes sheepdog trials, sheepherder hikes, Basque dance performances, and Zapotec botanical wool-dyeing classes.
  — Caitlin Etherton, National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024