Sentence examples for sheepfold from inspiring English sources

'sheepfold' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it when referring to an enclosed area used to contain sheep, typically with stone walls or some other kind of fencing. Example sentence: "The shepherd led his flock of sheep to the waiting sheepfold."

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sheepfold

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An enclosure for keeping sheep.

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The verses depicting Christ as the only door to the sheepfold (John 10 1 18) are frequently cited by Gregory when he addresses the subject of canonical elections.

In the world as it is, we need power, to protect the sheepfold.

Once, on a Greek island, with a Patrick Leigh Fermor book to hand, I made it my task to count how many times the word "sheepfold" appeared.

Rambouillet, breed of sheep, developed from selections of a few hundred of the best Merino sheep of Spain in 1786 and 1799 by the French government at its national sheepfold at Rambouillet, France.

In 1976, after two years of renovations, Tavern on the Green reopened with a bang, and this magazine ran a Talk of the Town story describing the "two-and-a-half-million-dollar, stop-at-nothing, one-thousand-seat-capacity update" of the 1934 sheepfold turned restaurant.

I did not see the Prime Minister, but I did see, once again, everything in which he took pride: his sheepfold, his orchard, his two sons.

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For this statue the temple kitchen staff prepared daily meals from victuals grown or raised on the temple's fields, in its orchards, in its sheepfolds, cattle pens, and game preserves, brought in by its fishermen, or delivered by farmers owing it as a temple tax.

The lower levels contained rooms for soldiers, as well as stables, sheepfolds, and storage areas.

Goldsworthy welcomes collaborations with wallers and shepherds (including neighbors in Dumfriesshire, in southern Scotland), pulling into his art the densely packed memories of human and animal occupation, limned through old hedges, cart tracks, and sheepfolds.

His other, more permanent, work is equally loved: crafted sheepfolds in Cumbria, the roof of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, and the astonishing Refuges d'Art project in Provence.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park is famed for its eloquent championing of local heroes Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth – and for its sheepfolds.

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