Flock in example sentence

The farmer, seeing before him this figure in full armour brandishing a lance over his head, gave himself up for dead, and made answer meekly,"Sir Knight, this youth that I am chastising is my servant, employed by me to watch a flock of sheep that I have hard by, and he is so careless that I lose one every day, and when I punish him for his carelessness and knavery he says I do it out of niggardliness, to escape paying him the wages I owe him, and before God, and on my soul, he lies."

More example sentences with word flock

These are the sounds you would expect, but they are also the sounds of dissonant concerts of a flock of birds screeching in the night, the high-pitched honest cries of children and the thunderous, unbearable silence.

There were 662 rejected sheep that didn't meet "sheep-like" criteria and were thrown out of the flock.

And whenever we saw a flock of birds that had electronic communication, we thought, 'Probably has something to do with the Americans.'"

They put 25,000 sheep in one flock, really mimicking nature now with planned grazing, and they have documented a 50-percent increase in the production of the land in the first year.

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