drover

Example Sentences

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Most people complete the route, which follows cattle drover paths and 18th Century military roads, over six or seven days.

From BBC • Jun. 14, 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

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

When director Baz Luhrmann co-wrote the script for his 2008 "Australia" movie epic, he cast Hugh Jackman as the rugged, unshaven drover in charge of moving cattle owned by recently widowed Nicole Kidman.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2014

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