herding

Example Sentences

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Ekwe also travels north, joining his fortunes to a Muslim herding clan.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Most were from Bedouin and herding communities in Area C. At the start of this year, 600 people were forced from one Bedouin village, Ras Ein al-Auja, in the Jordan Valley.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

But in this case, reporters seem to be herding without much to show for it.

From Slate • Mar. 18, 2026

Abdirahman, a 60-year-old grandmother, was bitten while herding livestock in Mandera county in Kenya's northeast, a hotspot for the parasite but with only three treatment facilities capable of treating the disease.

From Barron's • Feb. 8, 2026

Instead, what cries out for explanation is the failure of food production to appear, until modern times, in some ecologically very suitable areas that are among the world’s richest centers of agriculture and herding today.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond