How to Use shepherd in a Sentence

shepherd

1 of 2 noun

• The shepherd has two voices — one for his sheep and the other for the wolves.
  — Brandon Gillespie, Fox News, 23 Nov. 2023
• So were the beards of shepherds, who led dwindling flocks.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd tossed a stone into a cave and heard a clunk as one of the stones hit a clay jar.
  — Gary Schiff, Sun Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2022
• The shepherds begin each day with prayer, a tribute to the rising sun.
  — Avedis Hadjian, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
• Tatum is now the pat parent to a Dutch shepherd named Rooklin.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 4 Feb. 2022
• The young twigs die and remain on the tree, bending over to form a shepherd's crook as the disease moves down the branch.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 June 2022
• First the Bedouin shepherd family spotted the truck, then the five armed men dressed in white.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Jan. 2024
• Now the world was opening up, and he was being called back to serve as the movement’s shepherd.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
• As a shepherd, David boasted of killing lions and bears with his hands.
  — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 4 Dec. 2022
• Once upon a time, a young shepherd on his lunch break brought his chunk of white cheese and jug of wine to the Roquefort caves.
  — Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2021
• The shepherds will rise again at dawn, repeating the cycle until the first snows of fall.
  — Avedis Hadjian, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
• Heart Valley follows a day in the life of solitary Welsh shepherd Wilf Davies.
  — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2022
• But the sheep themselves, as well their shepherds, have vanished.
  — Gabby Sobelman, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• No longer the child of eros, economics had become a shepherd of death.
  — Corey Robin, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022
• The men bent the fence post into the shape of a shepherds hook and began plying the bottom of the small farm pond in hopes of snagging Haack’s buck.
  — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 20 Dec. 2023
• When the suspect still refused to exit, the K-9, a Dutch shepherd named Rex, was deployed.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023
• That afternoon, the reading was from Psalm 23, in which God, in the guise of a shepherd, leads his flock through the valley of the shadow of death.
  — Annalisa Quinn, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
• Struggles are essential to the soul, but the Lord will always watch over you, like a shepherd over his sheep.
  — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 2 May 2022
• His guide dog, a German shepherd named Pierce, was trained for years at a cost of thousands of dollars.
  — Amanda Morris, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2023
• Twain urged Kotb to try on her wardrobe — skimpy performance trunks and all — and then did her best to put the show host at ease and shepherd her on stage.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 15 July 2023
• The tale is split across a septet of singers who move in and out of solo, trio (i.e., shepherds and wise men) and ensemble passages.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2023
• The actress’s Australian shepherd Finn sports his own social media page, even featuring some shots of the pup on the set of The Dropout.
  — Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2023
• After hearing the good news from an angel, a shepherd brings his love to the infant, as do three magi.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2022
• During her stay, the 6-year-old pup found comfort in a German shepherd named Maggie.
  — Simone Jasper, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2024
• German shepherds keep watch, and an armed soldier patrols the river by boat.
  — Vadim Smyslov, WIRED, 21 Feb. 2024
• German shepherd, Moxie, in February, revealed that in the months that followed things took a turn for the worse.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2023
• The other is that the hood of the early limo, intended to protect the chauffeur, resembled the hooded cloaks of Limousin shepherds.
  — Nina Caplan, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2023
• There are fewer farmers and shepherds — whose sheep and goats graze clearings that tend to slow fires — and more hotel workers.
  — Elinda Labropoulou, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
• The menu serves up everything from fish and chips and shepherd’s pie to baby back ribs and baked ravioli parmigiana.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2023
• Two Australian shepherds under the table had Haley stickers on their fur.
  — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2024

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shepherd

2 of 2 verb

• She carefully shepherded the children across the street.
• They shepherded the bill through Congress.
• Noah returned as host to shepherd us through the evening.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Feb. 2023
• But the younger guys on his team knew all about it and helped shepherd him through the material.
  — William Goodman, Men's Health, 5 Sep. 2023
• If that was where Ping and Will were heading, Guralnik would have to find a way to shepherd them there.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
• And Born helped shepherd the measures through the months-long fiscal review.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2022
• The Cleveland Browns are in need of the current Cooper to shepherd their wide-receiver corps through the 2022 season.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 7 Sep. 2022
• The lights are dim, a few couples meander past, and a group of kids on a field trip is being shepherded around.
  — Samantha Laine Perfas, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 July 2023
• Hobbs sees Youngkin as someone who could shepherd not just Virginia, but the nation, through such a crisis.
  — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2021
• Since then, Ed Pressman, who produced all three films, has been attempting to shepherd a reboot of the franchise to the screen.
  — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 2 Apr. 2022
• Wilkins was desperate to shepherd a bestseller into the world.
  — Sam Adler-Bell, The New Republic, 7 Mar. 2022
• The 35-year-old died trying to shepherd students to safety into his classroom.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2022
• No one was teaching me anything, so I wasn’t being shepherded in any way.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2023
• Leo helped shepherd Thomas’s Supreme Court nomination through the Senate in 1991.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Aug. 2022
• As Houston looks toward the next phase of its dynasty, Brown could shepherd in a wave of contract extensions.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 22 Feb. 2023
• Ahrens shepherded the Kolache Shoppe for more than 40 years, waiting for the right torchbearer.
  — Elisabeth Carroll Parks, Chron, 19 Apr. 2023
• In addition, Comedy Central announced the list of names of people who will be shepherding the show through the end of June.
  — Vulture, 19 Apr. 2023
• Pigs were often shepherded from local farms through the streets of Cincinnati to processing plants.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 2 May 2023
• And the students have McGee, who since 2000 has helped shepherd thousands to higher education.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2021
• But the Inglewood Arts Commission did not shepherd that money well, or the artists whose careers and designs were being used to make the deal happen.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2022
• Charles Allen, who was the head of the council’s judiciary committee, was shepherding the new code through a review process.
  — Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
• Davis is helping to shepherd about Warwick’s late cousin Whitney Houston?
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2021
• After all, the restaurant is a perfect place for parents to teach their kids how to be people around other people, and the perfect place to teach parents how to shepherd their kids through the world.
  — Jessica Blankenship, Bon Appétit, 16 Feb. 2023
• Cooke tried to shepherd the Tarleton State alum towards the sideline about four yards from paydirt, but Speed stuck out a strong right arm, protected the ball like a running back and stiff-armed Cooke out of the way.
  — Andy Yamashita, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Nov. 2021
• And once Lionsgate came on board, that really shepherded us through the process.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 8 July 2023
• In Israel’s southern coastal city of Ashkelon, a man holding a crutch with one hand and a boy with the other joined evacuees being shepherded from a street after a rocket blew out the front of a house.
  — Josef Federman and Issam Adwan, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2023
• Therein lies the strange tension of King Richard, a sports biopic about the patriarch who helped shepherd the careers of two of the most famous tennis players in history.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2021
• After shepherding the case to the court, Koch network staff attorneys are now asking the justices to overturn a decades-old precedent.
  — Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2023
• Women shepherded children to a folding table where a face painter sketched Spider-Man masks and Palestinian flags on their cheeks.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024
• Which is why the retraction of the article is more than an act of cowardice and a betrayal of a writer whose work the magazine shepherded to publication.
  — Phil Klay, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024