shepherd
noun
a person who herds, tends, and guards sheep.
was shepherding
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past progressiveof shepherd.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Bores plunged into the Manhattan congressional race after three years in the state assembly, where his chief achievement was shepherding the AI bill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
The agent used three pairs of handcuffs to link the four, then was shepherding them through a barbed wire fence to get to a Border Patrol vehicle.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 4, 2021
Suneja was shepherding 188 hapless souls through the sky, 189 if you include his own, and struggling with a confusing failure of some kind.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2019
Walker was entitled to be irritated because, as he was shepherding the ball out of play, Jahanbakhsh had come in from behind and kneed him in the back of the leg.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2019
Somewhere behind them the indomitable Oolak, silent, enduring, was shepherding their own dog train over their tracks.
From The Heart of Unaga by Ridgwell Cullum
