goatherd

Example Sentences

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An old goatherd imparts sage advice, telling Damien that “time shifts for the grieving. Our bodies change; things don’t quite appear the same anymore.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 28, 2023

Gloria Putnam is the goatherd of this motley tribe, and she walks among them, picking mistletoe tangled in an oak to feed the matriarch of the herd, an 11-year-old named Rosie.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2018

I was leaving, the goatherd said that he thought that the herd had accepted me into their social group.

From Washington Post • May 25, 2016

Pleased with the elegance of this solution, he booked a flight to Switzerland, and arranged a rendezvous with a goatherd.

From The New Yorker • May 23, 2016

Farmer, goatherd, cattleherd, hunter or artisan, the landsman looks at the ocean as at a salt unsteady realm that has nothing to do with him at all.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin