Sentence examples for herding water from inspiring English sources

We drove for more than two hours to the village of Al-Madina, occasionally passing women walking along the road in black chadors, or children herding water buffalos.

The owner, David Muller, has a small herd of water buffaloes, whose milk has more calcium than cows' milk, he said.

Last spring, at his Star Hill Dairy in Woodstock, Vt., David Muller began milking a small herd of water buffaloes to make yogurt.

Then a problem arose: The truck was stuck at a tight corner, and the procession was pinned between the truck and a herd of water buffaloes.

Then a herd of water buffalo streamed onto the scene, like tanks entering a battlefield with an air force of cattle egrets providing cover.

The sounds of rush hour on the farm amounts to herds of water buffalo meandering home along the riverbank, and the call to prayers broadcast from the local mosques.

Ibrahim Osman, Save the Children's emergency officer, who is from Somaliland, recalls the horror of July, when desperate pastoralists – who make up around 55% of the population – trekked through the thorn-studded sand with their herds, seeking water and pasture.

Travelling mostly around northern England, Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts, both of them British poets, find unexpected pleasures: a car gradually coming into view beneath the surface of a pond, like a photograph in a developing tray; children's dens; a herd of water buffalo .Edgelands" is sprawling and untidy, like its subject matter.

All of which may explain the shock of coming around a bend and suddenly finding a derrick illuminated at night, or a gas flare framed by stars, or dozens of neatly ranked trailers in a "man camp," or a vast yard of drill pipe, or a herd of water trucks, or tracts of almost-finished single-family homes with Tyvek paper flapping in the wind of what just yesterday was a wheat field.

Most herd owners water their animals twice (71%) or even three times daily (24%) (Table 10).

They can do this since they spend less time trekking their herds to water.