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flock of sheep

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meanings of flockand sheep


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flock
noun
uk /flɒk/ us /flɑːk/
a group of sheep, goats, ...
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sheep
noun[C]
uk /ʃiːp/ us /ʃiːp/
a farm animal with thick wool that eats grass and is kept for its wool, skin, ...
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Examples of flock of sheep


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Dust contamination from the infected flockofsheep was the probable cause of this outbreak.
Consider, for example, a situation in which there are two flocks of things, a flock of birds and a flockofsheep, and the birds fly away.
The outbreak was probably due to exposure to dust contaminated by a passing flockofsheep, which at the time of the outbreak was engaged in lambing.
The shepherd watched his flockofsheep.
That is usually from holding a small flockofsheep.
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They are being driven like a flockofsheep.
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One sees the difference when someone on his own walks through a flockofsheep, walks by some young cattle or walks past birds.
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He has a very big flockofsheep, and he has neighbours also with big flocks.
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It is rather like having a mixed flockofsheep.
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That problem is similar, although not on the same scale, to that of the breeding flockofsheep.
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People who hold that view should be taken to see the results of a dog having attacked a flockofsheep.
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Recently a farmer – who is a third-generation sheep farmer – took me to see his last flockofsheep.
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Has anyone got a clue what it is like to lamb a flockofsheep day and night?
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They are very much in the position of that flockofsheep, and we are responsible.
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There is no more valuable asset to a farm than a good flockofsheep.
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It is possible to get unanimity in a flockofsheep.
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Few of us are able to claim the experience of seeing about 500 of them moving about like a flockofsheep.
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Similarly, an entire flockofsheep does not lamb within 19 days.
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They are nothing but a miserable flockofsheep.
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