goatherd
Example Sentences
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An old goatherd imparts sage advice, telling Damien that “time shifts for the grieving. Our bodies change; things don’t quite appear the same anymore.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
Hama Soor wore the standard outfit of a Zagros goatherd: wide trousers, a broad waistband and a tasseled brown head scarf whose pattern was so typically Kurdish it sometimes got wearers in trouble in Turkey.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2022
During their travels, they arrived at a dilapidated church, where, at Lucas’s command, a young goatherd was sent into a cave amid the ruins.
From The New Yorker ● May 24, 2019
Gloria Putnam is the goatherd of this motley tribe, and she walks among them, picking mistletoe tangled in an oak to feed the matriarch of the herd, an 11-year-old named Rosie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2018
Whatever he was, whether a demon in disguise or just a simple goatherd, it didn’t matter.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
