as in innocent
an innocent or gentle person
he came to see that the members of the cult were sheep who naively went along with whatever their leader dictated
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Recent Examples of sheep
Club members participate in a variety of projects, including poultry breeding and marketing, arts and crafts, photography, sheep breeding, dairy goat projects and more.
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Tracy Trobridge, Baltimore Sun, 4 Jan. 2026
Heck, we even got head-butted together by the resident sheep one evening (now that’s real bonding).
—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2026
Presented at Barunah Plains, an historic sheep station in west Victoria, BTV this year celebrates its 10th edition.
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 31 Dec. 2025
Don’t want no aliens after your sheep.
—David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
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Tracy Trobridge, Baltimore Sun, 4 Jan. 2026
Heck, we even got head-butted together by the resident sheep one evening (now that’s real bonding).
—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2026
Presented at Barunah Plains, an historic sheep station in west Victoria, BTV this year celebrates its 10th edition.
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 31 Dec. 2025
Don’t want no aliens after your sheep.
—David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for sheep
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sheep
Noun
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His only companion is his cousin Don (Aidan Delbis), a young innocent who just wants to help Teddy, who serves as a Greek chorus/audience surrogate (and a representative of Lanthimos’ interest in childlike adults).—
Katie Walsh,
Twin Cities,
24 Oct. 2025
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Neither Sadat nor Begin were innocents or doves.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
Noun
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For it is He who created the angels, and thus Memnoch, a fallen angel, who God basically sees as the loyal opposition.—
Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Nov. 2025
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The handsewn and carefully backstitched quilts feature colorful images of buffalo heads, turtles, eagles, angels and other patterns that come to Water in her dreams.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Hermann Nitsch crucified lambs and bulls, and Joseph Beuys attempted cohabitation with a coyote.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2025
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After a day of hiking or horseback riding across the pampas, guests gather for hearty Chilean meals of spit-roasted lamb and chargrilled steaks and pisco sours by the fire.—
Mark Ellwood,
AFAR Media,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Sheep.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sheep. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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