How to Use herdsman in a Sentence

herdsman

noun

• The kite rising sideways in the east is from Boötes the herdsman.
  — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2014
• Noah Lemaiyan -- a herdsman clad in a red and blue shawl -- lives on the outskirts of Amboseli.
  — CNN, 24 May 2021
• Fences and wooden buildings can be smashed and herdsmen put in fear of their lives.
  — National Geographic, 17 Feb. 2016
• The hiking trails are marked well; the main concern is to keep a respectful distance from the herdsmen.
  — Michael Hingston, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2019
• And all about are the goats with silky, long ears, whistled to order by herdsmen who make the sound pinching a leaf between their teeth.
  — Victoria Mather, A-LIST, 20 June 2018
• Outside, cattle graze across the rolling hills and the voices of herdsmen are a distant soundtrack.
  — Nokukhanya Musi, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2023
• Their secret leaked the first weekend in June when the other herdsman, Happy Mthabela, showed some of the stones to guests at a wedding.
  — New York Times, 4 July 2021
• Some states, such as Benue, have passed laws that ban herdsmen from grazing cattle on open land.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• Most of its stars instead became part of the constellation Boötes, the herdsman.
  — National Geographic, 1 Jan. 2018
• How racist is that to appropriate the diet of Central Asian herdsmen from 6000 B.C.?
  — Fox News, 2 May 2018
• Behind them marched captured herdsmen, driving their cows and rams.
  — Sarah A. Topol Photographs By Glenna Gordon, New York Times, 21 June 2017
• From wading through large river crossings to watching the local herdsmen, Long fell in love with the country and communities along the route.
  — Ben Church, CNN, 30 Aug. 2019
• Outside of the crater a similar drama continues in a more spread out manner with Masai herdsmen thrown into the mix.
  — Julian Harrison, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
• The Fulani herdsmen are responsible for the majority of the Christian deaths in Nigeria in 2019.
  — Fox News, 24 Dec. 2019
• Angba, the herdsman in Xilin Gol, said by the first grade, many children haven't even properly learned their mother tongue yet, and adding another language would be a big burden.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 5 Sep. 2020
• Taiping, a former herdsman, now runs his own jerky factory and has more than one million followers.
  — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• Within five years, an estimated 80% of the Herero and 50% of the Nama, herdsmen who populated much of central and southern Namibia, were dead or had fled the country.
  — Gabriele Steinhauser, WSJ, 28 July 2017
• Consider a pasture on which every herdsman may graze his cattle.
  — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
• In Italy the transumanza proceeds along tratturi, lanes etched into the land by herdsmen, cows and other livestock over two millenniums.
  — Maria Russo, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2019
• Portrait of alpaca herdsman while talking to Armando Tinta, a local travel guide, at the Jahuaycate pass.
  — Austin Merrill, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2018
• At least 72 people were killed in January following weeks of violence between nomadic herdsmen and farmers in the central part of the West African country.
  — Bukola Adebayo and Stephanie Busari, CNN, 26 Apr. 2018
• The jihadist attacks may also be an attempt to further exploit tensions between Tuaregs and Fulani herdsmen over land.
  — Fox News, 28 Apr. 2018
• Senior security officials say some Fulani groups have hired defectors from Boko Haram to carry out killings, a claim the herdsmen deny.
  — Joe Parkinson, WSJ, 27 May 2018
• Pallas is currently sailing through the bright constellation Boötes, the herdsman, located in the southeastern evening sky.
  — Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, 1 Apr. 2019
• There are nonetheless signs of life: a gas pump outside Arlit, a power line bringing electricity to nearby uranium mines, a herdsman and the ubiquitous camel, which thrives where most fear to tread.
  — Washington Post, 25 June 2018
• The country has been plagued by gangs of armed bandits preying on villagers, clashes between herdsmen and farmers, and the continuing Islamist insurgency of Boko Haram.
  — New York Times, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2018
• The massacre last week occurred in Benue state in central Nigeria, which has recently seen a series of attacks, many linked to an ongoing dispute between farmers and herdsmen.
  — Fox News, 29 Apr. 2018
• The roads are often blocked by herdsmen on horseback wrapped in colorful, traditional blankets surrounded by hundreds of their shaggy sheep.
  — Alexandra Wexler, WSJ, 12 July 2017
• The comet is currently shining at magnitude 7.5, making it an easy target to see with binoculars, and it is well placed for mid-northern latitude sky-watchers, who will see the bright fuzzy blob glide through the constellation Boötes, the herdsman.
  — National Geographic, 1 June 2017
• Young men -- traditionally herdsmen -- wear full makeup, jewelry and their finest clothes and stand in line to await inspection by female onlookers.
  — Tim Spector, CNN, 5 July 2017

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024