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  • noun Plural form of sheepherder.

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Examples

  • Immigrants trekking to Oregon despised and feared it as a waterless desert, but nineteenth-century sheepherders from California discovered it was a good place to over-winter.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • These guys being interrogated are not innocent sheepherders, they are trained, evil, ideologues who would kill Americans any way they could.

    Cheney: Investigating CIA interrogations a political move 2009

  • Because they were borrowed from existing social codes of the time, and modified to suit the needs of a wandering band of aggressive sheepherders.

    Think Progress » Miss Beverly Hills tries to one-up Carrie Prejean, says it’s divine law that gays be put to death. 2010

  • Immigrants trekking to Oregon despised and feared it as a waterless desert, but nineteenth-century sheepherders from California discovered it was a good place to over-winter.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • Immigrants trekking to Oregon despised and feared it as a waterless desert, but nineteenth-century sheepherders from California discovered it was a good place to over-winter.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • Living at the time in Colorado, we heard about a family of Norwegian-American sheepherders in Montana who were among the last to trail their band of sheep long distances -- about 150 miles each year, all of it on hoof -- up to the mountains for summer pasture.

    George Heymont: Mother Nature Provided The Soundtrack George Heymont 2010

  • Immigrants trekking to Oregon despised and feared it as a waterless desert, but nineteenth-century sheepherders from California discovered it was a good place to over-winter.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • The staff at Erick Schat's makes more than 450 items from scratch each day, the most popular of which are their killer sandwiches and the famous and trademarked Sheepherder bread, a hand-shaped French-style loaf that was introduced to the area by the Basque sheepherders over 100 years ago.

    You Want to Eat Where? 2011

  • Living at the time in Colorado, we heard about a family of Norwegian-American sheepherders in Montana who were among the last to trail their band of sheep long distances -- about 150 miles each year, all of it on hoof -- up to the mountains for summer pasture.

    George Heymont: Mother Nature Provided The Soundtrack George Heymont 2010

  • Kahlil came from a family of sheepherders who had covered the central highlands on foot.

    September 17 , 2004 Iddhis Bing 2012

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