Sentence examples for about a herd of from inspiring English sources
In Florida, the calls would warn about a herd of cows or an alligator on the loose.
Ruminating about a herd of about 300 of the ruminants, which were eating on a hillside beside a soccer field, Jane Greenfield, 49, a clinical social worker in Oakland, said, "They are part of our cultural diversity".
Writing from an animal's point of view — whether with the scientific restraint of Carl Safina in sections of "Eye of the Albatross" or with the novelistic empathy of Barbara Gowdy in "The White Bone," her saga about a herd of elephants — always risks coming off as just plain goofy.
And the emphasis on a shared humanity is the missing link in so many films, adds Palestinian debut director Amer Shomali, who has made a part-animation, part-docudrama called The Most Wanted 18, about a herd of cows who became the symbol of the first Palestinian Intifada in 1989.
Daughter Eliza (voiced by Lacey Chabert) can talk to animals, but can't reveal her secret -- even when she discovers that poachers are about to massacre a herd of African elephants.
CASARES, Spain — The curvy drive from the sleepy Andalusian village of Casares to Chris and Lisa Stone's mountainside vacation home should take about 10 minutes unless a herd of goats ambles across the road.
To make a profit, Mr. Smits said he needs a herd of about 120, a goal he hopes to reach before 2015.
He cited the official state herd at the Fort Griffin State Historic Site as well as San Angelo State Park, home to a herd of about 100.
For the past 40 years, she worked on a dairy farm and an agricultural station outside Beijing, tending a herd of about 200 cows.
If you are in good health and averagely diligent about hygiene, you will have a herd of about 1 trillion bacteria grazing on your fleshy plains.
He continued with a John Taylor automaton from about 1790, upon which a herd of cows and sheep parade every hour, and Mr. Berger's favorite, a Robert Robin, an 18th-century French clock with a hand-painted dial.
