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

If the dingo-becomes extinct, the herbivores will proliferate and compete more vigorously with Australia's sheep for pasturage.

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