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

They probably afford pasturage for a few goats.

From Time Magazine Archive

In this way, I hope to spread among others the gifts lavished upon me for my pains in the College of Lucidity; to loose knowledge from its corral and allow it free pasturage.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson