drover

Example Sentences

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Once selected, the birds then set off with a "drover", covering about three miles each day.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2025

She said the experience drover her to create the Biden Breast Health Initiative, which educated young girls in Delaware about breast health.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 17, 2022

The story is not really about the cow; it’s about Harrison buying a cow from a Maryland drover who was unaware he was talking to the president.

From Slate • Jan. 31, 2021

It focuses on a Pennine valley – thursbitch means “demon valley” in Old English – where, 300 years ago, a drover is found dead in the snow next to the print from a woman’s shoe.

From The Guardian • Oct. 26, 2020

Recalled by the rumbling of wheels to the road before me, I saw a heavily-laden waggon labouring up the hill, and not far beyond were two cows and their drover.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë