sheepherder

Example Sentences

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He traveled to the U.S. embassy in Lima, where he watched a video about being a sheepherder, or borreguero.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2022

Sen. Paul Laxalt — the son of a Basque immigrant sheepherder.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 14, 2021

A piglet unexpectedly becomes a champion sheepherder with training from his adoptive canine mother.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2019

His mother died of cancer several months after he was born, and his father sent the boy and a sister to live with their grandparents in Montrose, Colo., while he worked as a sheepherder.

From Washington Post • May 14, 2018

Then the water evaporated and the earth rose, so that not even a small depression marked the terrain; and nowadays nobody knows in which field the befuddled sheepherder dug his fabled hole.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols