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Example sentences for "sheep and"

  • Pelias was a great breeder of sheep and lived in Iolcus, but the other lived in Pylos.

  • He had gone there to accept a hecatomb of sheep and oxen, and was enjoying himself at his festival; but the other gods met in the house of Olympian Jove, and the sire of gods and men spoke first.

  • I am being eaten out of house and home; my fair estate is being wasted, and my house is full of miscreants who keep killing great numbers of my sheep and oxen, on the pretence of paying their addresses to my mother.

  • I then said that we had better make off at once, but my men very foolishly would not obey me, so they staid there drinking much wine and killing great numbers of sheep and oxen on the sea shore.

  • A large flock of sheep and goats, laden with salt, overtook us here on their route from Wallanchoon to Yalloong.

  • They had numerous flocks of sheep and goats, and two watering places, near one of which their tents were pitched, but the other lay nearly five miles off.

  • It was with great difficulty they could be made to understand this proposal, but the Moors made themselves intelligible by pointing to some negro boys, who were employed in taking care of sheep and goats.

  • And a mixed multitude, without number, went up also with them, sheep and herds, and beasts of divers kinds, exceeding many.

  • But the firstling of a cow, and of a sheep and of a goat thou shalt not cause to be redeemed, because they are sanctified to the Lord.

  • And he had possessions of sheep and of herds, and a very great family.

  • Shall then a multitude of sheep and oxen be killed, that it may suffice for their food?

  • Build therefore cities for your children, and folds and stalls for your sheep and beasts, and accomplish what you have promised.

  • However, it will be in the raising of sheep and of cattle, as well as in gold-mining, that the colony will have to look for her most permanent resources.

  • He had taken with him great flocks of sheep and goats, and they impeded his progress so much that, after wandering over the Fitzroy Downs for about seven months, he was forced to return.

  • But he that is hired, and who does not own the sheep, when he sees the wolf will leave the sheep and run to save his own life.

  • Now Ja-cob had large flocks of sheep and goats at Shech-em, and all of his sons but Jo-seph had gone there to feed them.

  • They wrote with pen and ink on rolls of parch-ment, made from the skin of sheep and goats.

  • In those days rich men kept large flocks of sheep and goats, and had men watch them at night for fear that wild beasts would seize and kill them.

  • English farmers and ranchers are busily at work, and English blood is improving the breeds of sheep and cattle.

  • In like manner, the men who can transmute scrubby sheep and big-boned, lean cattle into well-proportioned animals with heavy fleeces and fat stock is a benefactor to the human race.

  • Sheep and Goats' flesh is dried upon this Island, packed up in Bales, and sent to Concordia for the same purpose.

  • Vast flocks of sheep and of goat constituted their wealth, although they also possessed oxen.

  • The Acholi are good hunters, using nets and spears, and keep goats, sheep and cattle.

  • Numbers of Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Pigs in the United Kingdom.

  • Suicidal mania, again, which had hitherto been confined exclusively to donkeys, became alarmingly prevalent even among such for the most part self-respecting creatures as sheep and cattle.

  • In the districts of Boshof and Hoopstad there were many sheep and cattle, and there was no want of mealies.

  • Commandant Hattingh (Kroonstad) informed the meeting that he still had much cattle, sheep and grain, sufficient for a year.

  • It would have been a distressing return for his co-operation and help had one of my men raised a fire to sweep over his land and destroy his whole stock of horses, sheep and cattle, a result that was for a time imminent.

  • A number of sheep and of horses, together with a small herd of cattle, proved them to be an unusually rich tribe.

  • Could Leather have killed a sheep and taken it away?

  • Oh, I don't know; I shall go on taking long rides round after the sheep and cattle.

  • Through an opening in the extemporized fence is driven a flock of sheep and goats, or else a small herd of horses.

  • Cattle, Sheep and Agriculture in the largest Mountain Park.

  • The flesh of sheep and goats is the kind of meat in most common use.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sheep and" 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:
    accessory after the fact; assistant superintendent; came vnto; chair beside; deputy prime; dozen miles; ever met; find only; good appearance; intermittent fever; laws against; little talk; man like; might perhaps; our hearts; sheep and; sheep raising; sheep ranch; six inches; small share; temporal goods; three hundred and forty; thus seen; whose father