Sentence examples for common flock from inspiring English sources

The sub-text of both episcopal texts is that their common flock can still belong to the same spiritual community even if they are citizens of different states that are locked in conflict.

The most common flock size is 50 80 ewes with one or two rams.

Chicks were reared in groups organized by hatch date, and subsequent development occurred in common flocks.

The typical response of starling groups is to take flight, with a common sight being undulating flocks of starling flying high in quick and agile patterns.

The whooping crane — whose U.S. population in the wild had once fallen to 21 birds — has returned, and flocks of sandhill cranes are now a common sight.

A native of oak and pine-oak woodlands from near sea level to high mountain slopes, where not persecuted, turkeys may become common and flocks of young males or a dominant male with his harem of females may number several dozen or more.

Feelings were stirred up by rebellious priests such as John Ball, who criticised the church wherever the common people flocked to him to listen to his words.

This could have introduced certain selection bias towards larger and common breed flocks and, hence, increase the probability of scrapie occurrence based on these two commonly reported risk factors at the holding level [ 23].

Wildlife spills from the refuge, and it is common to see flocks of snowy egrets perched on lawns and several gopher tortoises crawling beside the heavily speed-restricted roads and numerous bike paths.

Shepherds descended from the mountains not only loaded with meat in order to survive the winter, and with new provisions every fortnight, but also when one of their sheep died due to illness or accident, something which was quite common in large flocks; there would be a spontaneous celebration in which the shepherds would participate with those whom they had the most affinity.

Mortality caused by cannibalism was also common in these flocks.