How to Use swineherd in a Sentence

swineherd

noun
  • That dog, the swineherd explains, belonged to a man who died.
    — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Leguizamo, playing Odysseus’ loyal swineherd, went further in his praise for Nolan.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 6 July 2026
  • An Ithacan swineherd who is loyal to Odysseus even after many have given up on his return.
    — ABC News, 9 July 2026
  • John Leguizamo stars in Nolan’s film as Eumaeus — Odysseus’ swineherd and close friend from childhood.
    — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026
  • In The Odyssey, John Leguizamo plays loyal, blind swineherd Eumaeus.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 21 July 2026
  • Leguizamo plays Odysseus' devoted servant and swineherd Eumaeus.
    — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 3 July 2026
  • John Leguizamo as Eumaeus Eumaeus is Odysseus’s loyal swineherd and one of his most faithful supporters.
    — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026
  • The British filmmaker has assembled an eclectic cast to play the heroes and goddesses, sorceresses and swineherds.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 July 2026
  • So does the king’s loyal swineherd, Eumaeus (John Leguizamo), who, in this telling, has gone blind and is thus endowed with near-Tiresian powers of perception.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
  • His character, Eumaeus, the blind swineherd of Ithaca, wasn’t involved in the Trojan War scenes, but he was scheduled to meet with Nolan.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 20 July 2026
  • But their patience dwindles, her son Telemachus (Tom Holland, his eternal boyishness put to great use) is getting easier to goad into a fight, and the blind swineherd Eumaeus (John Leguizamo) is all that’s left of the king’s loyal servants.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 15 July 2026
  • De Jong recalls having to get live pigs helicoptered onto the Ithaca set on the island of Favignana, near Sicily, to use in the scenes featuring Odysseus’ loyal swineherd Eumaeus (John Leguizamo).
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 July 2026

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