How to Use herdsman in a Sentence

herdsman

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  • 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

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