I.
noun
1 group of animals
ADJECTIVE
▪ great , huge , large , vast
▪ small
▪ entire , whole
▪ national (= all the animals of a particular type in a country) ( BrE )
▪
Bad weather has decimated the national ~.
▪ beef , breeding , dairy
▪
The farm has only a small dairy ~.
▪ pedigree ( BrE )
▪ wild
▪ cattle , cow , elephant , etc.
HERD + NOUN
▪ instinct
PREPOSITION
▪ in a/the ~
▪
The animals tend to graze in a ~.
▪ ~ of
▪
a large ~ of cows
PHRASES
▪ a member of a ~
2 group of people
ADJECTIVE
▪ common
▪ thundering ( esp. AmE )
▪
They hired a thundering ~ of corporate executives.
VERB + HERD
▪ follow
▪
If you feel so strongly, why follow the ~ (= do the same as everybody else) ?
▪ stand apart from ( AmE ), stand out from
▪
She prided herself on standing out from the common ~.
HERD + NOUN
▪ instinct , mentality
II.
verb
Herd is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ cattle , ↑ sheep