herdsman

Example Sentences

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Taiping, a former herdsman, now runs his own jerky factory and has more than one million followers.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2023

Now at 31, he is the herdsman and co-manages the dairy farm alongside his father.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2021

Farmers and herders once lived harmoniously on Nigeria’s bucolic central plateau, but when Amos Lenji, a farmer, caught a young herdsman grazing cattle in his cornfields this October, he feared for his life.

From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2018

The rational herdsman concludes that the only sensible course is to add another animal to their herd, and then another, and so forth.

From Textbooks • Sep. 6, 2018

You probably raise goats or sheep, and the kind of culture that grows up around being a herdsman is very different from the culture that grows up around growing crops.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell