shepherd
noun
a person who herds, tends, and guards sheep.
had shepherded
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past perfectof shepherd.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Dida was a "great repository of many decades worth of knowledge", and had shepherded "her herd through many seasons and challenging times", it added.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2022
As Musgrove told the story Friday, his parents had shepherded everyone into the stadium, then went back to the car and left him and his friend in the outfield.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2022
He had been widely credited with whittling away Chesapeake's $13 billion debt load with a conservative approach to spending and had shepherded the company through bankruptcy.
From Reuters ● Jan. 18, 2022
Underneath his amusement over her verbal stumble, though, was a welling of emotion about the woman who, for nearly a decade, had shepherded him through his own crises.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2021
Unconsciously he had fallen into the soft patronizing tone in which aforetime he had shepherded a Sunday school.
From The Half-Hearted by John Buchan
