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

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

He remembers feeling as if he and his neighbors were being herded like animals.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2024

Still, most of the roads in town were unpaved, and in the dry season, the dust kicked up by cattle being herded through town or by farm carts loaded with vegetables swirled through the air.

From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau