Example sentences for: pastoral

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

  • b) Parlayed pastoral visit into a week of self-promotion.

  • 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.

  • Some critics celebrate Burne-Jones' use of eclectic media (paint, tapestry, stained glass) and varied imagery (Arthurian, classical, pastoral).

  • I love her mocking the French ("I really dislike the pallid, watery-eyed, churchly old-whore sentimentality of their limpid pastoral novels").

  • Book -- American Pastoral , by Philip Roth;


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