Example sentences for: pastoral

How can you use “pastoral” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But a much larger grouping of coinages bears witnesses to the embryonic pastoral industry: cattle walk, cattle hunting, cattle run, cattle station; stock agent, stock driver, stock establishment, stock horse, stock house, stock hut, stock proprietor, stock property, stock run, stock station; sheep country, sheep downs, sheep establishment, sheep hills, sheep holder, sheep land, sheep master, sheep overseer, sheep owner, sheep proprietor, sheep watchman, sheep yard.

  • Unlike the mother, however, the son can and did flee into his books and beyond--to the pastoral beauty of his grandfather's farm, for one, and toward his future.

  • Tapestries range from copies of Old Master paintings to traditional pastoral scenes.

  • Outside of town, on the road to Aldeia da Mata, is one of the best-preserved dolmens in Portugal, a mysterious prehistoric chamber sitting unobtrusively in rolling pastoral lands.

  • The mailman, it's true, has not yet read the novel, only the reviews, and our lively conversation (many skyward hand gestures) veers in theological directions alien to American Pastoral . But I cite the theological detour to show what is going on these days every time I pick up the phone or loll about on the springtime sidewalk.


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