How to Use herder in a Sentence

herder

noun
  • Whomst was the nerf herder who thought that this was a good idea?
    — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 12 Nov. 2020
  • But the herders — and their 2,000 sheep — were nowhere to be seen.
    — Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Spend an hour traipsing through flat grass paths on the farm with the owner and goat herder.
    — Susan McDonald, The Providence Journal, 26 Mar. 2026
  • For a herder in a dry country, survival depends on the rains.
    — Russ Juskalian, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2015
  • Rain has fallen since then, but the herders have refused to leave the ranches.
    — Tom Odula, The Seattle Times, 12 July 2017
  • In some ways, their way of life may have resembled those of modern-day herders in the same area.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2024
  • My job as on-site editor is that of a cat herder, with very talented cats.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2021
  • The goats will be corralled, and a herder will oversee their efforts throughout the day.
    — USA TODAY, 8 July 2019
  • Farmers and sheep herders were out in their fields, wondering what the fine ash falling from the sky was.
    — Leah Sottile, Longreads, 17 May 2018
  • Ancient sheep herders in East Africa gouged out burial pits and placed large rocks over the corpses.
    — Maria Cramer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
  • This annual cycle meant Basque herders spent their summers alone in the hills.
    — Cheryl Oestreicher, The Conversation, 20 June 2024
  • In Kenya, a herder tries to warm up on the base of Mount Kenya in August.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
  • An Eskimo herder and I went up on a ridge and counted nine wolves about two miles from us.
    — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
  • That's great news for anyone who is dying to get a peek at a land destined to become overrun by scruffy nerf herders.
    — Megan Friedman and Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 8 Mar. 2019
  • The movie, which told the love story of two sheep herders in Wyoming, was a tender exploration of love.
    — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 21 Aug. 2019
  • In the fall and winter, the herders settle in houses closer to towns and cities so that their children can go to school.
    — Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Its characters are a small band of migrating reindeer herders.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The former sheep herder has a 35-man army ready to make the first move, but his moral compass is still nagging at him.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Large herding pens were the perfect environment for the virus to pass from camel to camel and then into camel herders.
    — Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2020
  • That hasn’t stopped traders and rival herders from leveraging the mine to barter down the price for local animals.
    — TIME, 14 May 2024
  • Growing up in a time of subsistence and change, Aiken learned to be a reindeer herder as a young teenager.
    — Shady Grove Oliver, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Jan. 2020
  • In Greece, some dogs were not put to work as hunters, herders, and guards but were bred without a practical purpose in mind.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The species is threatened by herders and shepherds whose flocks compete with the species for resources, as well as hunters who target the species for sport.
    — Thomas Leavy, CBS News, 22 June 2018
  • Johnson told the Statesman the lawsuit ended in a settlement paid out to the herder.
    — Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 17 Jan. 2025
  • In fact, nomadic herders have lived off the vast expanses of grass in the Rift Valley for centuries.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 24 July 2017
  • In June, when the weather gets warmer, the goats naturally shed the fleece and the herders gather up the cashmere.
    — Olivia Martin, Town & Country, 25 Oct. 2018
  • And so then also, guests are able to walk with nomadic herders, like across the land with camels or with or with cows and to like, learn about this ancient practice.
    — AFAR Media, 15 May 2026
  • Raad al-Ghali, a buffalo herder in the historic marshland of Chibayish, sits with a cousin.
    — Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2021
  • And as the sheep stood its ground, staring down the would-be herder, viewers online could not help but empathize with the retriever's retreat.
    — Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
  • There was also a sheep herder who, I was told, was paid by valley farmers to mind their flocks in the summer and harvest wool and milk for cheese.
    — Mike Eckel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2023

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