flock of sheep
collocation in Englishmeaningsofflockandsheep
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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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(Definition offlockandsheepfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Dust contamination from the infectedflockofsheepwas the probable cause of this outbreak.
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Consider, for example, a situation in which there are two flocks of things, a flock of birds and aflockofsheep, and the birds fly away.
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The outbreak was probably due to exposure to dust contaminated by a passingflockofsheep, which at the time of the outbreak was engaged in lambing.
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The shepherd watched hisflockofsheep.
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That is usually from holding a smallflockofsheep.
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They are being driven like aflockofsheep.
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One sees the difference when someone on his own walks through aflockofsheep, walks by some young cattle or walks past birds.
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He has a very bigflockofsheep, and he has neighbours also with big flocks.
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It is rather like having a mixedflockofsheep.
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That problem is similar, although not on the same scale, to that of the breedingflockofsheep.
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People who hold that view should be taken to see the results of a dog having attacked aflockofsheep.
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Recently a farmer – who is a third-generation sheep farmer – took me to see his lastflockofsheep.
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Has anyone got a clue what it is like to lamb aflockofsheepday and night?
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They are very much in the position of thatflockofsheep, and we are responsible.
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There is no more valuable asset to a farm than a goodflockofsheep.
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It is possible to get unanimity in aflockofsheep.
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Few of us are able to claim the experience of seeing about 500 of them moving about like aflockofsheep.
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Similarly, an entireflockofsheepdoes not lamb within 19 days.
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They are nothing but a miserableflockofsheep.
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