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
His father, a goatherd, added to his income with railroad construction work.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2022
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
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
“And then,” said Mal, “at every death, the Immortal is born again. They can be born into any family—peasant, politician, prince, goatherd, warrior. They’re the Immortal soul, in a human body.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
