How to Use black sheep in a Sentence

black sheep

noun

• She was the black sheep of the family.
• The black sheep of the franchise, it was plagued by excess.
  — Gieson Cacho Tribune News Service, Star Tribune, 7 Oct. 2020
• Did the black sheep kill the patriarch to get his hands on the nutria farm?
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2021
• There's a black sheep in the game, along with a red sheep who is more defiant than the others.
  — Trilby Beresford, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Aug. 2020
• There are a few black sheep who’ve recently returned to the fold as well.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2021
• On the brand side, Skrewball, it's made for misfits, screwballs, and black sheep.
  — Dave Knox, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
• This is a black sheep type of school, and sometimes people overlook us.
  — Jim Derry, NOLA.com, 22 Dec. 2020
• The black sheep of the FF family finally got some love at E3 tonight.
  — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 11 June 2019
• As if to demonstrate, one nuzzled a black sheep before rolling over on its back.
  — Kate Brady, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2023
• Uniiqu3 comes through with a sing-along for all the black sheep on the dance floor, and Big Freedia finishes the show with a daring bit of finesse.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 28 Jan. 2022
• Burnham was the artistic black sheep of a sporty family.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2014
• For the other non-pedigree entrepreneurs out there, here’s my crash course in how to get there, and how to not feel like a black sheep on your way up.
  — Christina Stembel, Quartz at Work, 29 Aug. 2019
• The question arises at this point, why are there so many black sheep in journalism?
  — Nicholas Lemann, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2020
• Her only way to escape is to make a deal with the black sheep and dark underlord of the Thirteen, Hades himself.
  — Emily Bond, menshealth.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• Qatar has long been the black sheep of the Gulf Cooperation Council.
  — Ilan Goldenberg, Slate Magazine, 5 June 2017
• Then there were her endless statement sweaters—who could forget that Gyles & George black sheep knit?
  — Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 24 Nov. 2022
• But the black sheep sweater perhaps made a statement about how Diana felt in the royal family.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2023
• Jack is variously described and self-described as a ne’er-do-well, a reprobate, a black sheep and a scoundrel.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
• Their black sheep is Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen), a hulking figure with a chainsaw who wears the skin of his victims.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2022
• To many people, Princess Margaret was the black sheep of her generation of royals.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2019
• The royal black sheep has finally found an era that suits her: the swinging Sixties, where anything goes.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 4 Nov. 2019
• Izzy Richardson, the youngest daughter and black sheep of the Richardson family played by Megan Stott, was a similar case.
  — Emily Hilton, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2020
• The youngest and wittiest Lannister sibling, Tyrion, a dwarf, is the black sheep of the family.
  — John Carucci, The Seattle Times, 13 Apr. 2019
• There are plenty of pieces that prove this notion, take her revenge dress or her black sheep sweater, for example.
  — Lauren Tappan, Town & Country, 17 Nov. 2022
• At this point in Diana's royal life, anyone could guess who the black sheep was supposed to represent.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 27 June 2023
• But the princess' names for her black sheep is this is not the first incident opening her up to criticism for her racist attitudes.
  — Meghan Markle, Fox News, 28 Apr. 2018
• Jamie, the lawyer, is the resident whipping boy, the black sheep whose ambitions surpass his mettle.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2023
• Uranus is the celestial black sheep of our small cosmic family.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2020
• Page will play Vanya, the black sheep of her dysfunctional family.
  — Lesley Goldberg, Billboard, 10 Nov. 2017
• This year alone has seen the sale of her famous black sheep jumper by Warm and Wonderful, which was bought in September for what was then a record $1.143 million (despite several moth holes!).
  — Monique Jessen, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024