SHEEP in a Sentence

Learn SHEEP from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

155 example sentences for SHEEP, such as:

1. The field had been grazed by sheep.
2. A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy.
3. These sheep have fine thick fleeces.
4. One butcher does not fear many sheep.
5. It's nearly the sheep's lambing time.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHEEP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sheep
 n.  a farm animal with thick wool that eats grass and is kept for its wool, skin, and meat
 n.  a timid defenseless creature
Classic Sentence: (106 in 8 pages)
1  There, too, were droves of sheep and bullocks coming in from the outlying pasture lands, and trains of tired immigrants, men and horses equally weary of their interminable journey.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
2  On the edge of a jutting pinnacle, three or four hundred feet above him, there stood a creature somewhat resembling a sheep in appearance, but armed with a pair of gigantic horns.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
3  The hens perched themselves on the window-sills, the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters, the sheep and cows lay down behind the pigs and began to chew the cud.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
4  To that horror we all must come--cows, pigs, hens, sheep, everyone.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
5  The cows lowed it, the dogs whined it, the sheep bleated it, the horses whinnied it, the ducks quacked it.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
6  It was also found that the stupider animals, such as the sheep, hens, and ducks, were unable to learn the Seven Commandments by heart.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
7  Bulls which had always been tractable suddenly turned savage, sheep broke down hedges and devoured the clover, cows kicked the pail over, hunters refused their fences and shot their riders on to the other side.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
8  The pellets scored bloody streaks along Snowball's back, and a sheep dropped dead.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
9  The flag was run up and 'Beasts of England' was sung a number of times, then the sheep who had been killed was given a solemn funeral, a hawthorn bush being planted on her grave.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
10  There was also "Animal Hero, Second Class," which was conferred posthumously on the dead sheep.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
11  He was especially successful with the sheep.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
12  Of late the sheep had taken to bleating "Four legs good, two legs bad" both in and out of season, and they often interrupted the Meeting with this.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
13  When the animals had assembled in the big barn, Snowball stood up and, though occasionally interrupted by bleating from the sheep, set forth his reasons for advocating the building of the windmill.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
14  At this Snowball sprang to his feet, and shouting down the sheep, who had begun bleating again, broke into a passionate appeal in favour of the windmill.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
15  The horses carried it off in cart-loads, the sheep dragged single blocks, even Muriel and Benjamin yoked themselves into an old governess-cart and did their share.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
Example Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
16  Carrion crows bewail the dead sheep and then eat them.
17  In the Hebrides they shear their sheep later than anywhere else.
18  Every time the sheep bleats it loses a mouthful.
19  One butcher does not fear many sheep.
20  The shepherd has penned the sheep in the five-acre field.
21  There was a solitary sheep in the field.
22  The field had been grazed by sheep.
23  These sheep have fine thick fleeces.
24  If one sheep leap over the dyke, all the rest will follow.
25  We fenced in the garden to keep the sheep out.
26  The sheep were grazing on the lush green pastures.
27  A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy.
28  WANDER The sheep are allowed to roam freely on this land.
29  In those days people might sacrifice a goat or sheep to propitiate an angry god.
30  It's nearly the sheep's lambing time.