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

Q: How do you use the word "sheep" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "sheep": And he chased the cattle, the sheep, and the people out of the temple. We cannot separate the sheep from the goats by appearance.

Sheep Meaning

/ˈʃiːp/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis.

nounA member of the domestic species Ovis aries, the most well-known species of Ovis.

Sentence Examples

And he chased the cattle, the sheep, and the people out of the temple.

We cannot separate the sheep from the goats by appearance.

Sheep were kept for their wool and meat.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The farmer counted his flock and found that one ____ was missing from the pasture.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The farmer counted his ____ every evening to ensure none had wandered off into the woods.

Word Origin & History

Inherited from Middle English schep, schepe, from Anglian Old English sċēp (West Saxon sċēap), from Proto-West Germanic *skāp, from Proto-Germanic *skēpą, of unknown origin. Perhaps from the same Scythian word (compare Ossetian цӕу (cæw, “goat”), Persian چپش (čapiš, “yearling goat”)) which was borrowed into Albanian as cjap, sqap (“buck”) and into Slavic (compare Polish cap). After Kroonen, *skēpą is instead from the root of Proto-Germanic *skabaną (“to scratch”) via Kluge's law. Cognates Cognate with Scots sheep (“sheep”), Yola sheep, zheep (“sheep”), North Frisian schep, schäip, Sjip (“sheep”), Saterland Frisian Schäip, Skäip (“sheep”), West Frisian skiep (“sheep”), Alemannic German Schaf, Schooff (“sheep”), Bavarian Schof, Schouf, Schåf (“sheep”), Dutch schaap (“sheep”), German Schaf (“sheep”), German Low German Schaap (“sheep”), Limburgish Schoëp, sjaop (“sheep”), Luxembourgish Schof (“sheep”), Vilamovian siöf (“sheep”), Yiddish שאָף (shof, “sheep”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountain sheep graze unconcernedly." — 1955 July, D. S. Barrie, “Railways of the Bridgend District”, in Railway Magazine, page 449:

"1990, Dave Mustaine, "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due", Megadeth, Rust in Peace. And fools like me, who cross the sea and come to foreign lands / Ask the sheep, for their beliefs do you kill on God's command?" —

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