How to Use overgraze in a Sentence

overgraze

verb
  • Habitat loss from the destruction of cedar forests, overgrazing, and climate change threatens its survival.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Neighbors said the cows overgrazed and flies proliferated.
    — Idaho Statesman, 16 Apr. 2026
  • This rotation mimics the natural migration of wild bison and keeps the pastures from being overgrazed.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Cashmere production can threaten the land that sustains the fibers when overgrazing depletes delicate grasslands.
    — Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 21 Nov. 2025
  • The study is the latest wrinkle in a simmering debate over whether bison herd size should be managed, and whether or not bison should be excluded from certain areas due to concerns about overgrazing.
    — Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 29 Aug. 2025
  • To prevent overgrazing, each Tristanian is allowed only a set number of animals, and when calves are born, older cows must be removed to keep the herd at a sustainable size.
    — NPR, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Threats to their natural habitats and livestock overgrazing also have impacted the Egyptian tortoise population.
    — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Many wild tulip species are threatened with extinction, primarily due to overgrazing and trampling by livestock, overharvesting of cut flowers, urbanization, and climate change.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Some 845,000 hectares of pasturelands are resting and recovering from overgrazing while herding communities transform shorn cashmere into sustainable fiber for luxury markets.
    — Kaveh Zahedi, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The public lands grazing system was modernized in the 1930s in response to the rampant use of natural resources that led to the Dust Bowl — the massive dust storms triggered by poor agricultural practices, including overgrazing.
    — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 12 Jan. 2026
  • At Vermejo Park Ranch, purchased in the mid-1990s from Pennzoil and spanning more than 870 square miles near the New Mexico-Colorado border, Turner’s team has worked to restore mountainsides and valleys degraded by overgrazing, mining and clear-cutting.
    — Susan Montoya Bryan, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026

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