shepherdess

Example Sentences

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The stories of her dressing as a shepherdess and milking the royal cows are probably no truer than the claim that she said, “Let them eat brioche.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

Channel 5 controller Ben Frow recently said Our Yorkshire Farm, which follows North Yorkshire shepherdess Amanda Owen and her family, was the broadcaster's most successful factual programme ever.

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2021

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

The effect is unnerving—a kind of neurotic pastoral—and, like the shepherdess, we’re not sure how to react.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 12, 2018

“Do you think Lady Crowan’s suggestion about the Dresden shepherdess was a good one?”

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier