How to Use herd in a Sentence

herd

1 of 2 noun

• The herd grazed peacefully in the pasture.
• A herd of shoppers waited anxiously for the store to open.
• The zoo’s herd has grown over the past couple years, the zoo said.
  — Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 22 Feb. 2024
• One whiff of that pesky onion, brought the whole herd into our camp kitchen.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Mar. 2023
• Some herds will die in the fire, and cattle will be injured.
  — Karen Hickman, The Conversation, 1 Mar. 2024
• Like a thundering herd, the crew headed to the next set.
  — Raul A. Reyes, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
• Farmers are afraid to plant their crops or take their herds out to roam.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
• The zoo closed the elephant exhibit to allow the calf to bond with its herd.
  — Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 22 Feb. 2024
• After the rut, elk will gather again in large herds for the winter.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
• Thomas Hardy’s rewrite: Where’s the flesh of the tender Dorset cow, whose herd is dying of bloat?
  — Marti Trgovich, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
• The winding pathways that dot the rugged cliffs plunge through pine trees and goat herds to meet the Mediterranean Sea.
  — Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 22 June 2023
• Wildlife walk:See herds of wild burros on this easy hike near Phoenix.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 26 Jan. 2024
• What the rise in zebra herds and the decline in buffalo might mean isn’t known.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2024
• In 2022, some families brought their herds of cows down the mountain a month early because of the drought and heat.
  — George Steinmetz Catherine Porter, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
• Holthaus spent nearly a decade breeding his herd with a focus on A2.
  — Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2024
• Among the central herd, the DNR estimated 33 calves were born last spring.
  — Paul Smith, Journal Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2024
• Five of the 11 bison released were from American Prairie’s herd.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 26 Oct. 2023
• No one knows exactly how many goats are in Corbeaux’s herd.
  — Catherine Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2023
• Finally, find out why a herd of goats got a hero’s welcome in Chicago.
  — CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
• Yet the profession has seen its labor force plummet while the number of herds of their four-legged clients have soared.
  — Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
• Past proposals to reduce the deer herds have included the sublime and the ridiculous.
  — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• That’s the case for caribou herds on the Arctic coastal plain of Alaska, which have proved difficult to study in real time.
  — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
• Details on the entire herd is posted the Jimmy Fund website.
  — Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
• One of the women in the pilot had a Border Collie, and their Border Collie’s, by instinct, bred to herd sheep.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2023
• This two-hour tour explores the grazing grounds of Catalina’s bison, descendants of a small herd left on the island by a movie crew in the 1920s.
  — Marlise Kast-Myers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2023
• After fording a creek and burrowing under a barbed wire fence, the men came face to face with a herd of cattle.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2023
• The study team had first thought nomadic hunters moved between distant kites with the migrations of herds of gazelles and antelopes.
  — Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 17 May 2023
• Because the Salt River was flowing there at the time, Schrader and his family’s herd crossed over by bridge.
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 8 June 2023
• Within their own herds, capybaras take care of themselves and each other.
  — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2023
• His death leaves four elephants in the zoo’s herd, all females: Moshi, Martika, Shenga and Kallie.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland, 20 July 2023

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herd

2 of 2 verb

• The commuters herded onto the train.
• We left the hotel and were herded onto a bus.
• The horses were herded into the corral.
• They herded the students into the auditorium.
• In the video, the whales can be seen slapping their tails in the ocean, trying to herd the fish.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 14 Sep. 2021
• This wasn’t one where Ohio was a bunch of sheep and they could have been herded over to the other side.
  — Staff Reports, cleveland, 11 Aug. 2023
• The job of the orca whales here is to herd the herring into a ball—no easy trick.
  — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2021
• He was born on a farm where corgis are still used to herd livestock.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 22 Nov. 2022
• The mandate was to lasso viewers and herd them to Paramount+, where the shows will complete their runs.
  — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2022
• There have, however, been lineages of dogs bred to the chase, or the lap, or to herd the sheep, for a long, long time.
  — New York Times, 4 Oct. 2021
• Will Speaker Nancy Pelosi now herd them across it like a docile flock of lambs?
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 31 July 2022
• The stunned children were herded from their bus into two vans.
  — David Begnaud, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2023
• The moose hung around campus for a time until officials were able to herd him west out of town.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2021
• It was used for herding cattle and sheep and for growing grapes and citrus.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
• The Bedouins are descendants of Arab nomads who roamed the desert for hundreds of years, herding sheep, goats and camels.
  — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2023
• As the dolphins herd the fish toward the coast, the people run into the water holding hand nets.
  — Christina Larson, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2023
• In keeping with Cromwell's beloved 1995 film about a piglet who learns to herd sheep, the little fella has been christened Babe.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• Finding cattle, trying to herd them in and cutting them through this field.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 17 Jan. 2022
• Red pandas With so many trees and rocks to climb, getting two red pandas to step on a scale is like herding cats.
  — Lee Powell, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• Pisces February 19-March 20 Your day might feel a bit like herding cats.
  — Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2023
• Babe – Babe, a pig raised by sheepdogs on a rural English farm, learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 30 Oct. 2022
• The kidnappers herded the stunned children from the bus into those two vans.
  — David Begnaud, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2023
• The animals were docile and easy to herd, probably because they were trained, Glass said.
  — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Jan. 2024
• Adnan Masri was herded through a barbed wire maze on that morning in 1997.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• And not go on national TV and make ridiculous and wrong claims about where your state is on the march to herd immunity.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 12 Apr. 2021
• The chicks quickly overrun the house and Lucy pretends to be the mother hen to help herd the animals, just in time for Ricky’s arrival home.
  — Lillian Brown, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2021
• Indiana Jones is on his way to herd us all back into movie theaters.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2023
• The need to herd 50 Democrats should moderate the tax measures that President Biden has proposed.
  — Philip Demuth, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2021
• Some structures were lost there but a surge of firefighters was able to herd the fire around the majority of the town, Brunton said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2021
• The numbers offer a clue as to how close to herd immunity the state and various regions are.
  — Catherine Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 3 May 2024