How to Use black sheep in a Sentence

black sheep

noun

• She was the black sheep of the family.
• Does this mean that Adams' black sheep label is about to be erased?
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 5 May 2023
• Did the black sheep kill the patriarch to get his hands on the nutria farm?
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2021
• There are a few black sheep who’ve recently returned to the fold as well.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2021
• This is a black sheep type of school, and sometimes people overlook us.
  — Jim Derry, NOLA.com, 22 Dec. 2020
• As if to demonstrate, one nuzzled a black sheep before rolling over on its back.
  — Kate Brady, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2023
• There's a black sheep in the game, along with a red sheep who is more defiant than the others.
  — Trilby Beresford, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Aug. 2020
• The question arises at this point, why are there so many black sheep in journalism?
  — Nicholas Lemann, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2020
• On the brand side, Skrewball, it's made for misfits, screwballs, and black sheep.
  — Dave Knox, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
• Aquarius is the black sheep of astrology, because this air sign isn’t afraid to go against the grain.
  — Liz Simmons, StyleCaster, 12 Aug. 2024
• Uranus is the celestial black sheep of our small cosmic family.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2020
• There are plenty of pieces that prove this notion, take her revenge dress or her black sheep sweater, for example.
  — Lauren Tappan, Town & Country, 17 Nov. 2022
• Then there were her endless statement sweaters—who could forget that Gyles & George black sheep knit?
  — Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 24 Nov. 2022
• The driver in the boat crash The show depicts Paul as a black sheep of the family.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
• At first, Sherlock appears to be useless, the black sheep of his family.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
• For the other non-pedigree entrepreneurs out there, here’s my crash course in how to get there, and how to not feel like a black sheep on your way up.
  — Christina Stembel, Quartz at Work, 29 Aug. 2019
• Page will play Vanya, the black sheep of her dysfunctional family.
  — Lesley Goldberg, Billboard, 10 Nov. 2017
• Jack is variously described and self-described as a ne’er-do-well, a reprobate, a black sheep and a scoundrel.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
• But the black sheep sweater perhaps made a statement about how Diana felt in the royal family.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2023
• At this point in Diana's royal life, anyone could guess who the black sheep was supposed to represent.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 27 June 2023
• But the princess' names for her black sheep is this is not the first incident opening her up to criticism for her racist attitudes.
  — Meghan Markle, Fox News, 28 Apr. 2018
• Jamie, the lawyer, is the resident whipping boy, the black sheep whose ambitions surpass his mettle.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2023
• Russia has quickly switched from having an open, central role in global oil supplies to becoming the black sheep of crude.
  — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2022
• Like the Zumwalts, the two Constellations could end up as black sheep in the US fleet.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
• For the first two-to-three years we (mostly me) were known inside LVMH as black sheep (aka losers).
  — Jenny B. Fine, Footwear News, 8 May 2026
• The black sheep of the FF family finally got some love at E3 tonight.
  — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 11 June 2019
• In House of Guinness, Ben is portrayed as the struggling black sheep of the family.
  — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
• To many people, Princess Margaret was the black sheep of her generation of royals.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2019
• Her only way to escape is to make a deal with the black sheep and dark underlord of the Thirteen, Hades himself.
  — Emily Bond, menshealth.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• Qatar has long been the black sheep of the Gulf Cooperation Council.
  — Ilan Goldenberg, Slate Magazine, 5 June 2017