Sentence examples for a herd of animals from inspiring English sources

Members of a herd of animals, for example, could be matched with stones in a sack without members of either set actually being counted.

If The Revenant has benefited from one big talking-point scene (featuring a grizzly bear), then Grimsby certainly offers a sequence involving an animal – or rather a herd of animals – that will dominate post-film pub chatter.

For years, sociologists thought a crowd behaved like a herd of animals: at some point, it reaches a critical mass and the will of the crowd overrides individual intelligence and individual decision making.

Conversely, though, there is "Dreamcatcher," the preview for which, by showing a quick shuffle of enigmatic, spooky images -- Damian Lewis looking terrified and then sinister, something scratching on a battered wooden door, a herd of animals fleeing through the snow -- scared me silly.

While earlier pastoral forms had to just ignore the realities of country life – the excruciatingly early mornings, the hard labour, the responsibilities of being tied to a particular piece of land or a herd of animals – pastoral games can turn those elements into a quiet joy.

Group association and activity is also indicated by the dozens of Coelophysis skeletons of all ages recovered in New Mexico, U.S. The many specimens of Allosaurus at the Cleveland-Lloyd Quarry in Utah, U.S., may denote a herd of animals attracted to the site for the common purpose of scavenging.

He still appears on television screens at a camera-ready desk that is decorated by a herd of animal figurines.

He was "different;" he couldn't defend himself, and so, like a herd of wild animals, we instinctively wanted to destroy him.

Mr. Straus would face a herd of political animals whose advancement required dumping his friends or being dumped himself, in favor of a new speaker who could populate committees with his or her own people.

Transgenic animals--sheep in Scotland, goats in Massachusetts, or rabbits in Belgium--provide a way of making such proteins in greater bulk for much lower cost....If the AAT treatment works, there could be a market for as much as ten tons a year--inconceivable for a traditional biotech factory, but quite manageable for a herd of transgenic animals.

This was reminiscent of Tawney's argument that an over-powerful state could demean and dehumanise at least as much as an unfettered market: "However the socialist ideal may be expressed, few things could be more remote from it than a herd of tame animals with wise rulers in command".