How to Use shepherd in a Sentence

shepherd

1 of 2 noun

• Must be the Aussie shepherd in him.
  — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
• That looks like mostly, if not all, shepherd.
  — Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
• The shepherd’s life is very concrete.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• The shepherd has two voices — one for his sheep and the other for the wolves.
  — Brandon Gillespie, Fox News, 23 Nov. 2023
• Dakota, the shepherd-mix, got a case of the zoomies during one of her runs.
  — Ross Mantle, New York Times, 21 May 2026
• But the sheep themselves, as well their shepherds, have vanished.
  — Gabby Sobelman, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• Around the plant, 9% of their chromosomes could be traced back to shepherds.
  — New Atlas, 27 Nov. 2025
• But to him, Mochi looks more like a shepherd than a Chow Chow.
  — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2026
• The shepherds begin each day with prayer, a tribute to the rising sun.
  — Avedis Hadjian, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 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
• There are wise men, animals, and shepherds.
  — Brandon Truitt, CBS News, 6 Dec. 2025
• As a shepherd, David boasted of killing lions and bears with his hands.
  — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 4 Dec. 2022
• 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
• Some bird feeders can be hung from a tree branch, a shepherd's hook, or mounted on a window.
  — Lauren David, Southern Living, 13 Apr. 2026
• Tatum is now the pat parent to a Dutch shepherd named Rooklin.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 4 Feb. 2022
• Hang carved jack-o'-lanterns from shepherd's hooks using hangers crafted from heavy-gauge wire.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
• 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
• The following year, he was upgraded to the role of a shepherd.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 20 Dec. 2025
• 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
• This German shepherd who makes sure his siblings get home safely from school.
  — Kelsey Monstrola, USA Today, 20 Feb. 2026
• Of course, the high pastures and winding paths in the peaks were long known to local shepherds and villagers.
  — Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
• 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
• When the shepherd is found dead, his gaggle of sheep, armed with the tropes of countless novels, team up to find the killer.
  — Jack Dunn, Variety, 9 May 2026
• The tinkling of bells that sounded throughout town in the evening, as the shepherds returned home with their flock.
  — Literary Hub, 24 Apr. 2026
• Rosa, who is legally blind, has Daisy, a German shepherd, to care for her.
  — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026
• The German shepherd had been in heat, which is why other dogs were drawn to it, the owners said.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026
• And the shepherd's boy says, 'There's this mountain of pure diamond.
  — Devan Coggan, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Nov. 2025
• Athena, who was born in April, is a shepsky mix, half husky and half German shepherd.
  — Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
• Others called out its shepherd’s pie, bangers and mash, and a Sunday roast dinner as must-haves.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2026
• 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

shepherd

2 of 2 verb

• She carefully shepherded the children across the street.
• They shepherded the bill through Congress.
• Winning over prospects, then shepherding them through the loan process.
  — Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
• 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
• The Bears are at a crossroads, and Poles needs to shepherd them on the right path.
  — Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
• And there are other producers that are brought on maybe halfway through a project to shepherd it.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 20 Nov. 2025
• Urine will go down the hose, with air flow doing the shepherding work rather than gravity.
  — Mike Wall, Space.com, 29 Mar. 2026
• He became known around school as the guy who shepherded his college classmates there.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 27 June 2026
• He became known around school as the guy who shepherded his college classmates there.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
• All around me, tour guides shepherded groups of them through the various exhibits.
  — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2025
• And Born helped shepherd the measures through the months-long fiscal review.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2022
• Yanoff is one of the commercial brokers shepherding the move.
  — Anne Kadet, Curbed, 12 May 2026
• Wilkins was desperate to shepherd a bestseller into the world.
  — Sam Adler-Bell, The New Republic, 7 Mar. 2022
• No one was teaching me anything, so I wasn’t being shepherded in any way.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2023
• 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
• My sister Lizzie, who worked alongside Dad, has shepherded for most of her life.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
• Davis has never had any shortage of projects that to shepherd and directing offers coming her way.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 26 Jan. 2026
• But there is an air of futility to the scene, like the coaches are shepherding square pegs into round holes.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 27 June 2026
• Knowles shepherded the team through the first three games of that campaign, going 2-0-1.
  — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 11 Jan. 2026
• Housing First is designed to keep people in the system, rather than shepherding them out of it.
  — Christopher Calton, Oc Register, 4 Dec. 2025
• Aged three, Alireza began shepherding.
  — Colin Millar, New York Times, 27 June 2026
• We’re shepherded out onto the Monaco track and stationed at one of the last corners.
  — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2026
• Peter Kang and Allie Broome will shepherd the project for Sony.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 2 Apr. 2026
• Deep Fusion will continue to shepherd its slate and has retained its senior team.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2026
• Jesse Whittock shepherding you through the week’s biggest and best in film and TV.
  — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2026
• Along the way, power producer Scott Rudin boarded to shepherd it along.
  — Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 15 Aug. 2025
• Hobbs sees Youngkin as someone who could shepherd not just Virginia, but the nation, through such a crisis.
  — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2021
• The 35-year-old died trying to shepherd students to safety into his classroom.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Bellerose believes Parker had been shepherding them toward that request all along.
  — Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 30 Apr. 2026