Example sentences for: pasture

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

  • young Abner Doubleday wandered into Farmer Phinney's pasture."

  • This description recognizes that as yet unalienated land might have been used as wild pasture, just as an 1867 critic of bureaucratese can complain that the Crown lands are very frequently, in Government phrase, styled the waste lands of the Crown... [though] they cannot... with propriety be called waste lands, for they are applied to the only purpose, speaking of them in general, to which they can ever be applied--grazing.

  • But most ranching terms, including such essential ones as cowboy, grass, pasture, fence, heifer, beef, boots, saddle, and so on, are obviously common English words of long standing.

  • The Sinai has long been the domain of the Bedouin, nomadic tribes who travel with their flocks of sheep and camels, moving from pasture to pasture and living in large family tents.

  • There are passages where Roth, describing the rural New Jersey landscape from within the Swede's benign imagination, produces a fine, sugary lyricism that is not more than 5 percent ironic--a lyricism of white pasture fences and rolling hay fields and the Swede pretending to be Johnny Appleseed, tossing his imaginary seed.


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