How to Use pasture in a Sentence

pasture

1 of 2 noun
  • The horses were grazing in the pasture.
  • Most of their land is pasture.
  • Almost all of it went to grass and pasture.
    — Emily Cureton Cook, ProPublica, 26 June 2026
  • Most of this cattle are free range and the grass pastures are large.
    — Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2025
  • What to know about the pasture mealybug.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Not eaten by the gears of a tractor, not alone on a back pasture.
    — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • In a few days, the flock will move to another pasture.
    — Vivian Jones, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
  • When all was done her pasture mate pawed at her grave, laid down, and rolled and rolled — over and over again.
    — Chi Varnado, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The badger prefers habitats with short grass, such as fields and pastures.
    — Michael Guise, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The grass, pastures, hay fields have started to go dormant and turn brown.
    — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
  • Let the message be true, from porch path and pasture just crossed, silver view.
    — Cbs News Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2026
  • But there's beef in abundance from the volcanic-soil pastures up the road.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • 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 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
  • When they were replaced by firetrucks, hundreds of horses were put out to pasture.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Livestock pastures with trees have been shown to hold more carbon than open pasture lands.
    — Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The land is also connected to two creeks, trails and open pastures.
    — Desiree Mathurin april 21, Charlotte Observer, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Ranchers have long used fire to manage land and renew pasture.
    — ABC News, 19 June 2026
  • The one team that has stopped them is the Chiefs, everyone has put them out of the pasture.
    — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Livestock fattens on grass from pasture and the maize‑filled troughs of feedlots.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Down the road, Poland’s organic cow pastures died.
    — Emily Cureton Cook, ProPublica, 26 June 2026
  • For landowners watching their pastures, water wells and night sky, here’s where things stand.
    — Emily Holshouser. Produced With Ai Assistance, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 May 2026
  • The jet crashed in a South Dakota pasture and six people died.
    — Michael Balsamo and Ashley Thomas, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2023
  • The unfinished roadway cuts some of the houses and a pasture off from the rest of the ranch.
    — Dallas News, 28 Oct. 2022
  • What began as a horse pasture quickly evolved into a home for a small but growing herd of cows.
    — Idaho Statesman, 16 Apr. 2026
  • As far as supermarket egg shopping goes, pasture-raised is the way to go.
    — Hayley Bruning, Treehugger, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Summer is the best time to test the soil of lawns consisting of cool-season grass and pastures.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Electric fences can keep bears, wolves and coyotes out of calving and lambing pastures.
    — Ben Long, The Denver Post, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Explore the growing fields, pastures, and wooded areas via a scenic hay ride.
    — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Groundhogs prefer to live near pastures, along the edges of woods, or under sheds or structures.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 6 May 2026

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
  • Jeanne Moos reports on how cows put a suspect out to pasture.
    — CNN, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Gerdes turned them back out to pasture and decided to leave them there, undisturbed, for good.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2021
  • 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
  • Just about everybody in the music industry was ready to put us out to pasture.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Sometimes horses pastured with them neigh and vie for power and kiss and kick one another.
    — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
  • PayPal is one of the first major services to take passwords out to pasture.
    — Joe Wituschek, BGR, 24 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
  • 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
  • The main barn has two birthing stalls, three additional stalls and seven outside stalls (three have turnouts to pasture).
    — oregonlive, 7 Mar. 2020
  • Baby boomers aren’t going to tolerate being put out to pasture.
    — Nancy Keates, WSJ, 9 Apr. 2022
  • With these features and benefits, this camera ought to put the E6 out to pasture.
    — Reuben Saltzman, Star Tribune, 1 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • Every morning, the herds of buffalo are brought out of their enclosures and taken to pasture.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 7 Nov. 2021
  • With nowhere to pasture, cattle died of heat stroke and hunger, decimating Europe’s dairy supply.
    — John Last, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Sep. 2022
  • And to be clear, nothing is going to pasture, including her beloved Britannia.
    — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 9 Nov. 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
  • Next-generation instruments could be sensitive enough to answer whether this dark matter horse wins it all — or needs to be put out to pasture.
    — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • More than 80% of deforestation in Brazil in recent decades has been linked to pasture expansion.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 6 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • They had been regarded as averse to pasture, intolerant of cattle and able to survive only in natural prairie.
    — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Unlike cows that can be left out to pasture for months until the meat processing plants ramp up production, pigs have a relatively small window in which they can be sent to market.
    — NBC News, 28 May 2020
  • Logging had converted 70 to 90 percent of the region’s native cloud forest to pasture.
    — Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
  • 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

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