herded

Example Sentences

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The 100-odd surviving islanders were herded into a walled village.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

In private prisons across the country, detained persons are herded through secure checkpoints, forced to wear color-coded uniforms, and locked in cells.

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2026

Once guests were successfully herded inside, it took even more wrangling to get everyone to sit down.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2025

She spoke sitting on a chair on the same railway platform where tens of thousands of Czechoslovak Jews were herded onto trains bound for the Theresienstadt ghetto.

From BBC • Sep. 3, 2024

The car doors are flung open, and we are herded out, with brown dogs barking at us.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper