How to Use herd in a Sentence
- The herd grazed peacefully in the pasture.
- A herd of shoppers waited anxiously for the store to open.
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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 -
California dairies are scrambling to guard herds against bird flu.
— Vanessa Franko, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2024 -
These orcas hunted a herd of nine adult female sperm whales, eventually making off with one.
— Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2024
- 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.
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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 -
Creating a Super Bowl ad is often like trying to herd cats.
— Brian Steinberg, Variety, 30 Jan. 2024
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