Sentence examples similar to flock of cattle from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "flock of cattle" is not correct in standard English usage.
It is typically used to refer to a group of birds, while "herd" is the correct term for a group of cattle.
Example: "The farmer watched as the herd of cattle grazed peacefully in the field."
Alternatives: "herd of cattle" or "group of cattle."

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You can see flocks of cattle egrets–huge, white storklike birds not to mention varieties of snakes and horses unique to Yonaguni.

The working part of the farm had a sheep flock and herd of cattle.

Herders on horseback, wearing pointy woolen knit caps, tended flocks of sheep, cattle and horses.

Farmers whipped flocks of sheep, cattle and goats with majestic long white horns into the crowded market, where they lined the animals up in close ranks.

They try and put me down: 'Well, you won't like me… I never watch television.' I didn't ask what you watched…" Clunes, Braitwaite and family have lived in the Dorset countryside for the past 17 years, having also acquired a herd of cattle, a flock of sheep and 13 Clydesdale horses.

In many areas of Britain, the highly contagious disease has ravaged herds of cattle and flocks of sheep.

Squeezed between Brazil and Argentina and long dependent on commodities exports, Uruguay may be better known for its flocks of sheep and herds of cattle.

On each side herds of cattle and flocks of sheep pastured on the plain, and the neighbouring meadows were filled with grazing horses.

Twenty-one percent of sheep flocks, 27% of goat and 14% of cattle herds had a C. burnetii seroprevalence ≥ 20%.

Those who did found a working plantation, a historic grist mill, a herd of heritage cattle, a flock of sheep (and a sentinel llama), some ornery Nubian goats and a sequence of 100-foot cliffs that date to the Miocene era.

Oathall Community College in West Sussex boasts a full milking herd of Ayrshire cattle, a flock of sheep with around 70 lambs a year, and pigs poultry and bees.

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