shepherdess

Example Sentences

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Elizabeth was originally depicted as a shepherdess with a crook and a lamb.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

As the eldest shepherdess, Annar kisses the door of one of the ranches, says a prayer and steps inside carrying a hotplate with burning leaves.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2023

In the celebrated “Alto Giove” from Porpora’s “Polifemo,” Ms. Hallenberg raptly intones Aci’s ravishing prayer of thanksgiving to Jupiter for bestowing on him the shepherdess Galatea.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2020

But it’s an older character—Bo Peep, a ceramic shepherdess in a yearslong flirtation with Sheriff Woody—who’s the film’s greatest delight and most original creation.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2019

She knew that it was ridiculous, but sometimes she felt as if Mary Ann knew something that she didn’t know, that the little shepherdess was keeping some dark and terrible secret.

From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo