Example sentences for: shepherd

How can you use “shepherd” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Since the translator may not “substitute his own modern images for the old ones” how can the shepherd metaphor retain its old-fashioned pastoral simplicity when its sense and the reader's senses are jarred out of the authentic Bible-time setting and are forced into a frame of the “language we use today”?

  • One couple we definitely don't expect to see reconciling anytime soon is Cybill Shepherd and her former fiance Robert Martin.

  • Another group of metaphors excluded is the names of natural species such as footman and emperor moths, lady's slipper, shepherd's purse, porpoise, etc.

  • After ten sheep had passed him, the shepherd had used up all his fingers.

  • As you travel along you’re sure to meet up with a shepherd herding his flock or donkeys at the roadside taking a rest from the day’s labors.


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