pasturage

Example Sentences

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Here in rural Somalia, where about 50% of the people depend on animals for their livelihoods, the locusts are eating the pasturage.

From Washington Times • Feb. 9, 2020

Its thin, rocky soil favored pasturage over wheat fields, so New Englanders raised livestock and caught codfish instead.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

He gave form to “the heavenly pasturage our minds can find in things,” is how Proust once put it.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2010

Housed in a 120-sq-ft aluminum building, it can match 15 to 25 acres of cattle pasturage by growing 45 tons of fresh grass a year at about $13 a ton.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the pasturage along the road the wild oat heads were just clearing their scabbards.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck