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Example sentences for "sheepdog"

Lexicographically close words:
sheen; sheening; sheeny; sheep; sheepcotes; sheepdogs; sheepe; sheepfold; sheepfolds; sheepherder
  1. At last, in desperation, a friend suggested that perhaps the sheepdog knew something of it.

  2. Mr. Williams's tailless sheepdog "Satan" and a spaniel bitch had many a moonlight fox hunt together.

  3. And at this very moment the yellow sheepdog came bounding up the yard from the woods and licked their hands and fawned on them and barked joyfully.

  4. The sound had been heard for three or perhaps four nights, when the people coming out of Tredonoc church after morning service on Sunday noticed that there was a big yellow sheepdog in the churchyard.

  5. Most of the residents of Boytown had never seen an Old English sheepdog before, and Rover attracted not a little attention on the street.

  6. Old English sheepdog is its official name, but I think it might better be called the bob-tailed sheepdog to distinguish it from the original smooth sheepdog of England.

  7. The Old English sheepdog was entered under his original name of Darley's Launcelot of Middlesex, and for once Elliot Garfield was proud of the name.

  8. For instance, there's the German boxer which has sometimes been shown in this country, and the Pyrenean sheepdog whose blood is to be found in several of our large breeds, including the St. Bernard and the Irish wolfhound.

  9. But from this small beginning important results were to spring, and the Old English Sheepdog has made great strides in popularity since then.

  10. The diminutive Shetland Sheepdog has many recommendations as a pet.

  11. In that case it is very possible that the early progenitors of the breed were built upon a larger and more massive scale than is the sheepdog of to-day.

  12. Working trials to test the skill of the sheepdog have become frequent fixtures among shepherds and farmers within recent years, and these competitions have done much towards the improvement of the working qualities of the Collie.

  13. This dog and the Old English Sheepdog are much alike in appearance, but that the bearded is a more racy animal, with a head resembling that of the Dandie Dinmont rather than the square head of the Bobtail.

  14. Indeed, it is quite open to argument that the founders of our breed, as it exists to-day, were imported into England at some far-off date when the duties of a sheepdog demanded of him fighting qualities no longer necessary.

  15. He considered the Sheepdog superior in instinct and intelligence to all other breeds, and that, with a character in which education has comparatively little share, he is the only animal born perfectly trained for the service of man.

  16. The only other member of my staff was a shaggy sheepdog named Benjamin, who served as security chief, periodically sweeping the back garden for the neighbor's cat.

  17. My sheepdog Benjamin, the fearless terror of the streets?

  18. He was rather short-haired, like the old Welsh sheepdog once common in Wiltshire, but entirely black instead of the usual colour--blue with a sprinkling of black spots.

  19. Does anyone know the terms of a 'Kirkaldie Association's Preliminaries,' for 'Working Sheepdog Trials?

  20. Ally suspected that her sheepdog enjoyed their morning runs along the river even more than she did.

  21. A second later, her fluffy sheepdog was lost in the rain.

  22. Ally was going to come charging out of the front door in about two minutes, with that damned sheepdog that Steve gave her, assuming it was still around.

  23. But there was one old sheepdog that nothing could tempt.

  24. The news of what was about to happen spread among the animals and the faithful old sheepdog hurried down from the hills to be with his master at the end.

  25. All night long that one old sheepdog stood on guard faithful to duty.


  26. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sheepdog" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.