FLOCK in a Sentence
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89 example sentences for FLOCK, such as:
1. Birds of a feather flock together.
2. There is a black sheep in every flock.
3. One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock.
4. Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together.
5. He found a young shepherd watching his flock.
2. There is a black sheep in every flock.
3. One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock.
4. Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together.
5. He found a young shepherd watching his flock.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of FLOCK
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flock
v. come together as in a cluster or flock
n. a church congregation guided by a pastor
Classic Sentence: (72 in 5 pages)
1 The shepherd was willing, and got in, and the peasant shut the top down on him; then he took the shepherd's flock for himself, and drove it away.
2 After that the peasants went home, and as they were entering the village, the small peasant also came quietly in, driving a flock of sheep and looking quite contented.
3 Off went the flock chattering away; but one fell down dead, and the cloak with it.
4 The same evening, when the flock was safe at the farm, the little Luigi hastened to the smith at Palestrina, took a large nail, heated and sharpened it, and formed a sort of stylus.
5 One day the young shepherd told the count's steward that he had seen a wolf come out of the Sabine mountains, and prowl around his flock.
6 He found a young shepherd watching his flock.
7 He was leaning on the shoulder of his favorite Selim, and he drove us all before him, as a shepherd would his straggling flock.
8 "Here's a lovely flock of lambs all lying down," says Amy.
9 The air was dark with Davises, and many Joneses gamboled like a flock of young giraffes.
10 She enjoyed it heartily and found the applause of her boys more satisfying than any praise of the world, for now she told no stories except to her flock of enthusiastic believers and admirers.
11 Each one of these sends the suitors the best goat in the flock every day.
12 Here Melanthius son of Dolius overtook them as he was driving down some goats, the best in his flock, for the suitors' dinner, and there were two shepherds with him.
13 They dispersed about the room, reminding me, by the lightness and buoyancy of their movements, of a flock of white plumy birds.
14 It was as if a band of Italian days had come from the South, like a flock of glorious passenger birds, and lighted to rest them on the cliffs of Albion.
15 But, somehow, the cotton always failed, and the garden, due to Mrs. Slattery's constant childbearing, seldom furnished enough to feed her flock.
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1 Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together.
2 Birds of a feather flock together.
3 One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock.
4 There is a black sheep in every flock.
5 It is a small flock that has not a black sheep.
6 We watched a flock of birds fly over the field.
7 As the flock is in shock with this miracle occurring to the crazy person, word begins to spread around Ann Arbor.
8 So she took and dusted us both with the hickry, and we was as much as two hours catching another fifteen or sixteen, drat that meddlesome cub, and they warn't the likeliest, nuther, because the first haul was the pick of the flock.
9 This girl, who might be one of God's own lambs, is a little castaway: not a member of the true flock, but evidently an interloper and an alien.
10 An ewe has been missing from the flock of sheep.
11 And people will again flock to it, ready to rearrange their social communications agenda, and spend their money on the new phone and all the apps.
12 It rarely happened that people in the town flocked to the theatre to see the new opera.
13 Crowds flocked after the popular singer as he left the theater.
14 Ponte City, a cylindrical brutalist skyscraper stretching 54 storeys, was built for yuppies who had flocked to the city, often from Europe.
15 By this time people were flocking to join the cult.