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Recent Examples of sheepherderFor sheepherders living in Idaho, mountainous distances are all part of a day’s work.—Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 17 Jan. 2025 The region has a rich history of sheep farming going back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when Basque sheepherders settled there.—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 10 Oct. 2024 Barbershop Trail: Named for a sheepherder who used his skills cutting the hair of his neighbors, the Barbershop Trail is part of the Cabin Loop Trail system on the Rim.—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 18 Sep. 2024 One student who was helping take photos and videos and noting GPS locations revealed that her father came to the U.S. from the Basque Country to work as a sheepherder.—Cheryl Oestreicher, The Conversation, 20 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for sheepherder
There’s also an impressive 1836 drawing of a young shepherdess by Jules Dupre, acquired by the museum in 2009 as part of a bequest from collector Muriel Butkin.
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Steven Litt,
cleveland,
29 Jan. 2023
And Angela Chatelain Avila entertainingly plays most of the play’s female roles, including the neighbor’s gentle-natured wife Beryl, a boy servant, a maid and a shepherdess.
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Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Oct. 2022
For the past few weeks, he’s been embroiled in a back-and-forth feud with cowboy singer Charley Crockett.
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Joseph Hudak,
Rolling Stone,
13 Sep. 2025
The pair showed off their playful side by dressing as ninjas for a Halloween Instagram post in 2023 and later decked out in cowboy-and-cowgirl outfits to celebrate her birthday in 2024.
Most of the smashing is done by Tamburlaine, a Scythian shepherd by birth, who rises to the peaks of power, lays waste to one kingdom after another, and has the temerity, at the climax of Part 1, not to die.
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Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
The occurrences grew more aggressive over time, with the Smurls' 75-pound German shepherd getting slammed into a wall and Jack getting attacked while praying.
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