How to Use sheepherder in a Sentence

sheepherder

noun
  • Rather than escape, the sheepherder accepts his death.
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Every woman in her late thirties should be reading about the sheepherders.
    — Hannah Jocelyn, New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2026
  • His father was a sheepherder and his mother ran a hotel in the state’s small capital.
    — Natalie Andrews, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2018
  • That didn’t deter some sheepherders who ferried their flocks over to graze several years later.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 July 2023
  • But then the two of them bond and, with the logic of a fairy tale, Babe goes on to win the all-important sheepherder’s competition.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Remains found on a Colorado trailhead by a sheepherder have been identified as a missing woman, deputies say.
    — Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The next day, the sheepherder checked the traps to discover one containing the first wolverine ever captured in Utah.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Her father, a Basque sheepherder, had settled in the area in 1947 along with many of his countrymen.
    — Elizabeth Zach, sacbee, 24 Mar. 2018
  • On my paternal side, I am born for Naaneesht’ezhi Dine’é, an old Zuni clan, some of whom were sheepherders.
    — Parvannah Lee, Teen Vogue, 22 Nov. 2018
  • Sporting a fancy robe, the former sheepherder is indulging in expensive cigars, champagne, and a pair of prostitutes.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Over the centuries, the region drew iron miners, sheepherders, and alpinists, but its isolation dissuaded many from planting roots.
    — John Briley, National Geographic, 9 Apr. 2019
  • To view these almost-overgrown messages and art today, our small group tramped through prickly underbrush and tried to imagine the hard, solitary lives the sheepherders led.
    — Sara Lessley, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The Basque sheepherders who toiled here from the 1850s onward left lonely musings carved into the region’s aspen trees.
    — Sara Lessley, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Afterward, get in line for a sandwich or a loaf of bread, originally from a Basque sheepherder’s recipe, at Schat’s Bakkery in Bishop.
    — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 10 Oct. 2021
  • The shot fired at Jack Dutton (Darren Mann) by the trespassing sheepherder apparently missed the cowboy, but hit his horse.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Between individual sheepherders there are sometimes 40 or 50 miles.
    — Gabriel Thompson, Longreads, 17 May 2017
  • Today’s festival includes sheepdog trials, sheepherder hikes, Basque dance performances, and Zapotec botanical wool-dyeing classes.
    — Caitlin Etherton, National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Emergency services personnel transported the sheepherder to a nearby regional medical center for initial treatment before flying him to Grand Junction for surgery.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 13 July 2023
  • His father was a sheepherder on Iceland’s northern coast who moved to Denmark, studied with Niels Bohr, immigrated to the United States, and worked on the Apollo missions.
    — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 29 June 2026
  • In a 2000 report by Central California Legal Services, ninety percent of sheepherders reported that they weren’t given a day off over the entire year.
    — Gabriel Thompson, Longreads, 17 May 2017
  • Read some of the Statesman’s award-winning articles which included coverage of the University of Idaho homicides, Idaho’s sheepherders, the state’s faith-healing exemption and more.
    — Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 5 May 2024

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