was shepherding
- past progressive of shepherd.
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
Townsend, the committee’s Republican chair, was shepherding more than a dozen election bills through her panel Monday afternoon, with plans to go into the evening.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2022
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
A little boy with oblique dark eyes was shepherding a pig, and by the house door stood a woman, who came towards them.
From Five Tales by Galsworthy, John
