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Your holiday dessert table could use a little more character — and these sheep, pig, bunny, and chick cookies will do the trick. — The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, "Easy Vanilla Sugar Cookies That'll Bring Spring Cheer to Your Holiday Table," 27 Mar. 2019 Muslims often slaughter sheep, cattle or goats on the holiday, distributing some meat to the poor. — Julhas Alam, Fox News, "Rohingya refugees celebrate holiday amid memories of home," 22 Aug. 2018 At least eight people were bitten since Wednesday, along with a dog and some sheep, CBS New York reports. — CBS News, "Coyote that bit 8 people in New York tests positive for rabies," 5 Mar. 2018 It's carried by animals, including cattle, sheep, and goats. — Cathleen O'grady, Ars Technica, "Trash your romaine lettuce and don’t eat any in restaurants, says the CDC," 21 Nov. 2018 But tougher measures were needed in Queensland, where dingoes were dining on millions of sheep every year. — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, "The Longest Fence in the World Would Take 6 Months to Walk Around," 4 Dec. 2017 Both dogs and sheep were able to get to the end of the maze more quickly. — Caren Chesler, Popular Mechanics, "A Vision Quest," 6 Mar. 2019 The movement of the sea, flowing toward the island, was a kiss; the grazing sheep kissed the earth; the air amid the leaves and grass was a lament of kisses. — Lily Tuck, WSJ, "‘Arturo’s Island’ Review: Childhood’s End," 22 Feb. 2019 That might sound as dry as a middle school science class, but Ignotofsky enlivens the concepts by illustrating them, showing how carbon moves through a sheep snacking on grass, pooping on the ground, and exhaling into the air. — Rachel Becker, The Verge, "Get a grip on the natural world with this beautiful manual for the planet," 15 Sep. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'sheep.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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