How to Use pasture in a Sentence

pasture

1 of 2 noun
Definition of pasturenext
Synonyms for pasturenext
  • The horses were grazing in the pasture.
  • Most of their land is pasture.
  • The days are shorter, the air is crisp and the 40-acre sheep pasture has been dry for months.
    — Naoki Nitta, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The unfinished roadway cuts some of the houses and a pasture off from the rest of the ranch.
    — Dallas News, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The vines, brambles and saplings growing where fields and pastures once stood pull the piles of stones apart.
    — Robert Thorson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The grass, pastures, hay fields have started to go dormant and turn brown.
    — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
  • The jet crashed in a South Dakota pasture and six people died.
    — Michael Balsamo and Ashley Thomas, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2023
  • The park stretches across 209 acres of pasture, floodplain and forest with the line of Black Hills rising in the west.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
  • During the storm, their barn's roof blew off, and the horses were able to escape into the pasture.
    — Devan Stuart Lesley, Peoplemag, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The trees should be delivered to the parking area at the southern end of the farm and tossed over the fence into a pasture, Cook said.
    — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Boyle stayed with her 30-year-old horse and small dog in the pasture for about four hours, trying to figure out what to do.
    — oregonlive, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Of course, the next stop was the sheep’s pasture, where guests could meet the wool-making masters behind the collection.
    — Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The students then strode back through over hills in the horse pasture, down the gravel road and to the center of campus for one last rally.
    — Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Natural Force Grass Fed Whey is a clean and pure source of protein from cows that are pasture-raised and grass-fed.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The garments begin with the herds of sheep that graze its rocky pastures; the shearing, spinning, and knitting all take place there.
    — Deborah Needleman, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The farm has maintained its price, $6 for a dozen, and all of its hens are pasture-raised, with access to the outdoors and high quality feed.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 19 Jan. 2023
  • When they were replaced by firetrucks, hundreds of horses were put out to pasture.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
  • The largest cow corral is in the Boston Common, with 11 sculptures, according to the pasture map.
    — Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
  • The crew heads out to the pasture to a troubling discovery: stillborn bison calves.
    — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Give the little grazer 50 acres of short, green grass pasture with an inch or less of water overtop.
    — M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 2 Nov. 2023
  • My drive to the main campus, which is about two hours southwest of Detroit, led me past farms and cow pastures, and along an unpaved road.
    — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • As far as supermarket egg shopping goes, pasture-raised is the way to go.
    — Hayley Bruning, Treehugger, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The farm's goats fed on local hay from two family farms and roam pastures or forage for at least 12 hours a day.
    — The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Old Howard—not blood related, but the man who owned and leased to us the deer pasture, stepping out quietly, in his late 80s.
    — Rick Bass, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2023
  • In theory, the vaccine could be given to cows on pasture.
    — Brian Kateman, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • In an idyll that would not look out of place in Heidi, the animals spend the summer on pasture in the hills about 10 kilometers away.
    — Lisa Abend/zurich, Time, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Two polar bear cubs are packing their bags and leaving the Detroit Zoo for grander pastures this spring.
    — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 16 May 2023
  • At Maconaquah, math helped students determine how many posts and spools of wire were needed for the fence around the cow’s pasture.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Livestock pastures with trees have been shown to hold more carbon than open pasture lands.
    — Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Electric fences can keep bears, wolves and coyotes out of calving and lambing pastures.
    — Ben Long, The Denver Post, 13 Feb. 2024
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pasture

2 of 2 verb
  • The horses are pastured on several acres of land.
  • Or will we be changed by our time in the wilderness - or out to pasture?
    — Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 8 May 2021
  • He was pastured close to the field while the cannons were being shot.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 23 May 2017
  • This was a lot pastured by the left and manufactured by the left.
    — Fox News, 20 May 2018
  • Prepared and served free-range chicken and pastured beef and pork.
    — Southern Living, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Jeanne Moos reports on how cows put a suspect out to pasture.
    — CNN, 16 Dec. 2022
  • With these features and benefits, this camera ought to put the E6 out to pasture.
    — Reuben Saltzman, Star Tribune, 1 Dec. 2020
  • PayPal is one of the first major services to take passwords out to pasture.
    — Joe Wituschek, BGR, 24 Oct. 2022
  • For one reason or another, a great gun was lost in the shuffle or put out to pasture too soon.
    — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 30 June 2020
  • A horse was pastured beyond the windbreak, a line of spindly willows alongside his yard.
    — Lynn Freehill-Maye, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2016
  • Gerdes turned them back out to pasture and decided to leave them there, undisturbed, for good.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2021
  • Roughly three-quarters of the world’s farmland is used to pasture livestock or raise crops to feed that livestock.
    — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Just about everybody in the music industry was ready to put us out to pasture.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The point is that as people are living longer, there remains no valid reason for fashion to put them out to pasture.
    — New York Times, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Chick-fil-A is putting one of its more popular menu items out to pasture after 20 years, the fast food giant announced.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News, 19 July 2018
  • Each year, around the time the first snowflakes dust the meadows, Mendoza leads the sheep down the mountain to the ranch, where they are sheared and mated, giving birth before heading to pasture again.
    — Miriam Jordan, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The main barn has two birthing stalls, three additional stalls and seven outside stalls (three have turnouts to pasture).
    — oregonlive, 7 Mar. 2020
  • Then, at the turn of the century, rumors kicked up that Bertelsmann was preparing to put Clive out to pasture.
    — Amy X. Wang, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Sometimes horses pastured with them neigh and vie for power and kiss and kick one another.
    — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
  • For the most part, though, Internet Explorer will be put out to pasture in a little under 13 months.
    — Carly Page, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • That means helping farmers make a full-time living raising tomatoes and greens or pastured pork or eggs.
    — Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The almost-two-hour Harvard speech could only be read as a cease-and-desist threat against those who want to put him to pasture or to expand the Court’s membership.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 23 June 2021
  • After more than 40 years of faithful service, the historic Army jeep is being retired, put out to pasture.
    — Murray Rubenstein, Popular Mechanics, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Every morning, the herds of buffalo are brought out of their enclosures and taken to pasture.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 7 Nov. 2021
  • More than 80% of deforestation in Brazil in recent decades has been linked to pasture expansion.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Petro still rises each day at dawn to take the cattle to pasture, as his ancestors have done for generations.
    — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
  • One study suggests that pastured hens deposit more lutein and zeaxanthin into their egg yolks.
    — Daphne Miller, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2019
  • But Treyarch has done a bang-up job improving the game (minus some problems like split-screen) while Modern Warfare has been led out to pasture.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • In the past, many Qatari families have simply pastured their camels in Saudi Arabia, traveling back and forth across the border to tend to their livestock.
    — chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2017
  • Many admit their bodies take an extra day or two to recover, and that’s usually when NFL teams put them out to pasture.
    — Omar Kelly, Sun Sentinel, 29 July 2022

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