How to Use pastureland in a Sentence

pastureland

noun
  • The area between the mountains is mostly pastureland.
  • Barreto lives on a dead-end road, a single street with pastureland on both sides.
    — Michael Forster Rothbart, Scientific American, 10 June 2022
  • What was formerly open pastureland has been razed and graded for home sites.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Goats graze in the pastureland above, and bees hum in the apricot trees on the adjacent hillside.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The alpine pastureland is home to herds of goats and cows and small families of shepherds who have worked the land for lifetimes.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Take the left fork a few yards south of the restroom, passing through the tunnel and heading into wide open pastureland.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2022
  • During the summer, ranchers sold off cattle as drought withered pastureland and hay crops.
    — Jen Skerritt, Bloomberg.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Many farmers have seen their seeds dry out or have delayed planting crops, and there is little or no feed for livestock on pasturelands.
    — Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 27 May 2018
  • And the animals need water to drink and land to live on, some of which is cleared of trees or native grasses for pastureland or to grow feed.
    — April Reese, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2014
  • Chickens pecked outside a coop, and in the distance, cattle grazed open pastureland that seemed to drop off into the sea below.
    — Ratha Tep, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2018
  • While the disclosure calls this property pastureland, Noem has referred to it as her home.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Meanwhile, farmers with access to loans might plant profitable new crops, such as cacao, on some former pastureland.
    — Juan Forero, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Bought last year with OnlyFans money, the 10 acres of pastureland once held a grove of pecan trees.
    — Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The warehouse was surrounded by what felt like an acre of siding, sawn and stacked high overhead, open to the sky and surrounded by pastureland.
    — Ryan D'agostino, Popular Mechanics, 23 Jan. 2019
  • Brazil’s cerrado pastureland can be quite densely forested, with livestock grazing beneath the open canopy of the trees.
    — David Fickling | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Drive any stretch of Highway 2 for expansive views of the Great Plains and pastureland.
    — Sarah Rose, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2026
  • The rural pastureland, known as High Oaks, is owned by the Clayton family.
    — Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Erin Hills, an 11-year-old course shaped out of Wisconsin pastureland, didn't put up much of a fight without much wind.
    — Doug Ferguson, courant.com, 18 June 2017
  • McFee has decided to rent pastureland where there is more grass to feed his cows, aiming to prevent overgrazing on lands where the grasses have dried up.
    — Ian James, The Arizona Republic, 23 Aug. 2020
  • For more than six generations, one family has held the keys to 1,668 acres of pastureland right by the river mouth.
    — Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Then, around 2000, Constant asked if Heinecke knew of any pastureland that wasn’t being used.
    — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Like most Quakers who came to Loudoun County, Hatcher was drawn to its fertile pastureland.
    — Kathy Orton, Washington Post, 3 June 2022
  • The land on which Fox Elementary is built was owned by the Fuchs family for more than five decades and used as pastureland for dairy cows.
    — Chevall Pryce, Houston Chronicle, 12 Feb. 2020
  • My family donated some of our dairy farm's pastureland to our local land trust, and now people walk on trails through the area where Holstein cattle once grazed.
    — Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Take a leisurely walk through the bucolic pastureland and enjoy watching these beautiful gentle creatures enjoy their home.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Take a leisurely walk through the bucolic pastureland and enjoy watching these beautiful gentle creatures enjoy their home.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 15 May 2026
  • Take a leisurely walk through the bucolic pastureland and enjoy watching these beautiful gentle creatures enjoy their home.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 17 Dec. 2025
  • The rolling hills and pastureland of Vernon County are home to the highest concentration of organic farms in the state.
    — Katy Spratte Joyce, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2020
  • The rolling hills and pastureland of Vernon County are home to the highest concentration of organic farms in the state.
    — Katy Spratte Joyce, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2026
  • After an hour or so on the old Roman salt road, the Via Salaria, hills become mountains, and fields become sloping pasturelands.
    — New York Times, 31 July 2019

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