Crossword-Solution: SHEEP
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Sheep | n. sing. & pl. | Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia. |
| Sheep | n. sing. & pl. | A weak, bashful, silly fellow. |
| Sheep | n. sing. & pl. | Fig.: The people of God, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| SHEEP | anagram | EPHES, HEEPS, SPHEE |
We have 241 clues for the answer “SHEEP”
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "SHEEP"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
18 +2
New Suggestion for "SHEEP"
Related word tools
Sentences with SHEEP (5)
The Sheep and the Goat complained of his distressing cries, saying, “He often handles us, and we do not cry out.” To this the Pig replied, “Your handling and mine are very different things.
She was nevertheless left a slave—a slave for life—a slave in the hands of strangers; and in their hands she saw her children, her grandchildren, and her great-grandchildren, divided, like so many sheep, without being gratified with the small privilege of a single word, as to their or her own destiny.
During the twelvemonth preceding this time he had been enabled by sustained efforts of industry and chronic good spirits to lease the small sheep-farm of which Norcombe Hill was a portion, and stock it with two hundred sheep.
Miss Puss, who had been looking on, said: “Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.” The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing A Wolf found great difficulty in getting at the sheep owing to the vigilance of the shepherd and his dogs.
Indeed, I found afterwards that horses, cattle, sheep, dogs, had followed the Ichthyosaurus into extinction.
Quotes with SHEEP (3)
We are creators, and yet we naively play the role of "the created." We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who made us. We kneel like frightened children, begging for help, for forgiveness, for good luck. But once we realize that we are truly created in the Creator's image, we will start to understand that we, too, must be Creators. When we understand this fact, the doors will burst wide open for human potential.
The amorous shepherd has lost his staff, And his sheep are straying on the hillside, And he didn’t even play the flute he brought to play because he was thinking so much. No one came to him or went away. He never found his staff again. Others, cursing at him, gathered his sheep for him. No one had loved him, in the end. When he got up from the hillside and the false truth, he saw everything: The great valleys full of the same green as always, The great distant mountains, more…
Some people want to kill goliath but they do not want to attend to sheep. How can God use you to kill giants if you cannot follow simple instructions?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 225 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).