sheep

Example Sentences

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George’s sheep may be intelligent, but they are stubbornly ahistoric when confronted with facts they’d rather not acknowledge.

From Salon • May 17, 2026

The roadway carries more than a million vehicles each month and runs through a key population of bighorn sheep, Caltrans said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026

Sometimes sheep are merely sheep, and sometimes they’re stand-ins for a willfully credulous populace.

From Salon • May 17, 2026

“The Sheep Detectives,” where sheep solve the murder of their beloved shepherd, deals with death in a digestible way for kids.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

“We got a long dive in front of us. I need to be in sheep shape.”

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko