How do you use the word "flock" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "flock": I saw a flock of birds flying aloft. A boy was driving a flock of sheep.

Flock Meaning

/flɒk/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration.

nounA large number of animals associated together in a group; commonly used of sheep, but (dated) also used for goats, farmed animals, and a wide variety of animals.

Sentence Examples

I saw a flock of birds flying aloft.

A boy was driving a flock of sheep.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

pot lot mountain

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

A large ____ of birds landed together in the field, searching for seeds to eat.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

A large ____ of geese flew overhead in a V-formation, heading south for the approaching winter.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English flok, from Old English flocc (“flock, company, troop”), from Proto-West Germanic *flokk, from Proto-Germanic *flukkaz (“crowd, troop”). Cognate with German Low German Flock (“crowd, flock”), Danish flok (“flock”), Swedish flock (“flock”), Norwegian flokk (“flock”), Faroese flokkur (“flock”), Icelandic flokkur (“flock, group”). Related also to Norman fliotchet (“flock, crowd”), from Old Norse. Perhaps related to Old English folc (“crowd, troop, band”). More at folk.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"He told his father, and said it would be just suitable work for him to run about fields and woods amongst the strawberry hills after a flock of hares, and now and then lie down and take a nap on some sunny hill." — 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 170:

"Into the trees / Past meadow grounds / And further away from my home / Baying behind me / I hear the hounds / Flock's chasing to find me alone / A trail of sickness / Leading to me / If I am haunted / Then you will see" — 2005, “Reverie / Harlequin Forest”, in Ghost Reveries, performed by Opeth:

"My parents kept a flock of sheep. When Andy and I married in 1990, I brought 11 sheep descended from my father's flock to Andy's family's dairy farm." — 2026, Robin Nistock, quotee, “Makers Space”, in Spin Off, volume L, number 1, page 12:

"But lapsed into so long a pause again / As half amazed, half frighted all his flock: [...]" — 1864, Alfred Tennyson, “Aylmer’s Field”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 83:

"I also have other sheep that are not from this pen. I must lead them. They, too, will respond to my voice. So they will be one flock with one shepherd." — 1995, Green Key Books, God's Word to the Nations (John 10:16):

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