How to Use shepherd in a Sentence

shepherd

1 of 2 noun
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  • The shepherd has two voices — one for his sheep and the other for the wolves.
    — Brandon Gillespie, Fox News, 23 Nov. 2023
  • So were the beards of shepherds, who led dwindling flocks.
    — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd tossed a stone into a cave and heard a clunk as one of the stones hit a clay jar.
    — Gary Schiff, Sun Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The shepherds begin each day with prayer, a tribute to the rising sun.
    — Avedis Hadjian, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Tatum is now the pat parent to a Dutch shepherd named Rooklin.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 4 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • As a shepherd, David boasted of killing lions and bears with his hands.
    — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Once upon a time, a young shepherd on his lunch break brought his chunk of white cheese and jug of wine to the Roquefort caves.
    — Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • Heart Valley follows a day in the life of solitary Welsh shepherd Wilf Davies.
    — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2022
  • But the sheep themselves, as well their shepherds, have vanished.
    — Gabby Sobelman, New York Times, 3 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
  • The men bent the fence post into the shape of a shepherds hook and began plying the bottom of the small farm pond in hopes of snagging Haack’s buck.
    — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 20 Dec. 2023
  • When the suspect still refused to exit, the K-9, a Dutch shepherd named Rex, was deployed.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023
  • That afternoon, the reading was from Psalm 23, in which God, in the guise of a shepherd, leads his flock through the valley of the shadow of death.
    — Annalisa Quinn, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Struggles are essential to the soul, but the Lord will always watch over you, like a shepherd over his sheep.
    — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 2 May 2022
  • His guide dog, a German shepherd named Pierce, was trained for years at a cost of thousands of dollars.
    — Amanda Morris, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Twain urged Kotb to try on her wardrobe — skimpy performance trunks and all — and then did her best to put the show host at ease and shepherd her on stage.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 15 July 2023
  • The tale is split across a septet of singers who move in and out of solo, trio (i.e., shepherds and wise men) and ensemble passages.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2023
  • The actress’s Australian shepherd Finn sports his own social media page, even featuring some shots of the pup on the set of The Dropout.
    — Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • During her stay, the 6-year-old pup found comfort in a German shepherd named Maggie.
    — Simone Jasper, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2024
  • German shepherds keep watch, and an armed soldier patrols the river by boat.
    — Vadim Smyslov, WIRED, 21 Feb. 2024
  • German shepherd, Moxie, in February, revealed that in the months that followed things took a turn for the worse.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The other is that the hood of the early limo, intended to protect the chauffeur, resembled the hooded cloaks of Limousin shepherds.
    — Nina Caplan, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2023
  • There are fewer farmers and shepherds — whose sheep and goats graze clearings that tend to slow fires — and more hotel workers.
    — Elinda Labropoulou, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The menu serves up everything from fish and chips and shepherd’s pie to baby back ribs and baked ravioli parmigiana.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Traditional shepherd’s pie is made with ground lamb, thus the name, and classic cottage pie is made with ground beef.
    — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 7 Apr. 2023
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shepherd

2 of 2 verb
  • She carefully shepherded the children across the street.
  • They shepherded the bill through Congress.
  • Noah returned as host to shepherd us through the evening.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • And Born helped shepherd the measures through the months-long fiscal review.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2022
  • The Cleveland Browns are in need of the current Cooper to shepherd their wide-receiver corps through the 2022 season.
    — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 7 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Hobbs sees Youngkin as someone who could shepherd not just Virginia, but the nation, through such a crisis.
    — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Since then, Ed Pressman, who produced all three films, has been attempting to shepherd a reboot of the franchise to the screen.
    — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Wilkins was desperate to shepherd a bestseller into the world.
    — Sam Adler-Bell, The New Republic, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The 35-year-old died trying to shepherd students to safety into his classroom.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2022
  • No one was teaching me anything, so I wasn’t being shepherded in any way.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Leo helped shepherd Thomas’s Supreme Court nomination through the Senate in 1991.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Aug. 2022
  • As Houston looks toward the next phase of its dynasty, Brown could shepherd in a wave of contract extensions.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Ahrens shepherded the Kolache Shoppe for more than 40 years, waiting for the right torchbearer.
    — Elisabeth Carroll Parks, Chron, 19 Apr. 2023
  • In addition, Comedy Central announced the list of names of people who will be shepherding the show through the end of June.
    — Vulture, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Pigs were often shepherded from local farms through the streets of Cincinnati to processing plants.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 2 May 2023
  • And the students have McGee, who since 2000 has helped shepherd thousands to higher education.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2021
  • But the Inglewood Arts Commission did not shepherd that money well, or the artists whose careers and designs were being used to make the deal happen.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2022
  • Charles Allen, who was the head of the council’s judiciary committee, was shepherding the new code through a review process.
    — Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Davis is helping to shepherd about Warwick’s late cousin Whitney Houston?
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2021
  • After all, the restaurant is a perfect place for parents to teach their kids how to be people around other people, and the perfect place to teach parents how to shepherd their kids through the world.
    — Jessica Blankenship, Bon Appétit, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Cooke tried to shepherd the Tarleton State alum towards the sideline about four yards from paydirt, but Speed stuck out a strong right arm, protected the ball like a running back and stiff-armed Cooke out of the way.
    — Andy Yamashita, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Nov. 2021
  • And once Lionsgate came on board, that really shepherded us through the process.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 8 July 2023
  • In Israel’s southern coastal city of Ashkelon, a man holding a crutch with one hand and a boy with the other joined evacuees being shepherded from a street after a rocket blew out the front of a house.
    — Josef Federman and Issam Adwan, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Therein lies the strange tension of King Richard, a sports biopic about the patriarch who helped shepherd the careers of two of the most famous tennis players in history.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2021
  • After shepherding the case to the court, Koch network staff attorneys are now asking the justices to overturn a decades-old precedent.
    — Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2023
  • In fact, up to 80% of your immune cells are found in the gut.7) Minor wounds—such as cuts and scrapes—may also be slower to heal, since healthy immune cells are needed to shepherd the recovery process.
    — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The same went for her experience as part of the post-production process and having the opportunity to shepherd the project from start to finish.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 19 Nov. 2021

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