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Example sentences for "black sheep"

  • Caffres of Natal, their rain-charm by means of a black sheep, i.

  • Reef, plain of, in Tiree, witch as black sheep on the, x.

  • Natal, the Caffres of, their rain-charm by means of a black sheep, i.

  • When she has done this she begins again at "Have you seen anything of my black sheep," until she has caught all the children behind Jacky Lingo.

  • Have you seen anything of my black sheep?

  • The child immediately behind Johnny Lingo shows its foot between her feet, and on seeing it the centre child says] Here's my black sheep.

  • And she remembered also in the same moment that her Cousin George was a black sheep.

  • I don't see why young men are to be allowed to be black sheep; but yet you know they are.

  • The reader may be sure that such a thought had passed through her mind when she asked her mother whether Cousin George was to be accepted as a black sheep or a white one?

  • To be called a black sheep--a hard-working, steady-going man as he had been all his life.

  • There is a black sheep in every family, and poor Uncle Obed was the black sheep in ours.

  • It was not the first time she had called herself a black sheep, or had spoken of her scanty attendances at church.

  • Sir Francis might be that very suspicious character, a black sheep; he might be landless, with the exception of that ruined tenement in the North; nevertheless, Nan loved to know that he was of their kith and kin.

  • The Black Sheep The Black Sheep Black sheep, black sheep, have you any wool?

  • When he saw the sheep waiting for him he asked, "Black Sheep, Black Sheep, have you any wool?

  • Good morning, Black Sheep," said the boy; "why do you look so funny this morning?

  • Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, Have you any wool?

  • Judy, awe-stricken at the catalogue of Black Sheep's crimes.

  • Evan Lamotte is a black sheep; I should take it Burrill must be a black dog, or worse, and sheep and dog are owned by the same family.

  • Here he listened to the complaints of his settlers, and gave ear to one or two tale-bearers, who poisoned his mind against the "black sheep" and shut up his soul to reconciliation or mercy.

  • This was the first check the Chief had received, and he resolved to punish the "black sheep" the first opportunity that offered.

  • It was after many months of strategic manoeuvering that four of the six "black sheep" were served, and they subsequently had to pay the amount.

  • The above persons were marked down as black sheep in the Chief's doomsday book, and set apart for the next batch to be sued.

  • THE BLACK SHEEP 'Black sheep, black sheep, have you any wool?

  • BAA, BAA, BLACK SHEEP Baa, baa, black sheep, Have you any wool?

  • This Leopold is generally regarded as a black sheep.

  • Up to now my most ambitious literary attempts were intimate letters to my brother Leopold, the "Black Sheep.

  • This saying, however, is somewhat different from what a farmer friend told me of black sheep.

  • Illustration: Music: Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "black sheep" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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