How to Use forage in a Sentence

forage

1 of 2 noun
  • The grass serves as forage for livestock.
  • But free-roaming horses in the area eat the same plants, or forage, as the livestock.
    Mark Scaglione, NBC News, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The forage that caribou need to build fat for the winter now ripens and fades too early.
    Richard Adams Carey, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The bristly groundhog and her plump twins experiment with the best part of the lawn on which to forage.
    Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland, 28 June 2022
  • The forage bass feed on also use the same overhead cover in this way.
    Steve Price, Field & Stream, 7 June 2023
  • Most of it is used to plant cover crops and forage for livestock, with a sizable share of the seed sold in the mid-west.
    oregonlive, 8 May 2021
  • In front of her are the towers of grain that had sprouted into forage.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 June 2022
  • Jared wears a slouchy dark blue Civil War forage cap on his head.
    Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The chick is then able to look after itself and set out for open water to forage.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Growth rates are rapid in Pool 4 because of an abundance of forage.
    Tony Kennedy, Star Tribune, 15 May 2021
  • In the span of 54 days, Brain slowly learns how to survive — how to make a fire, how to hunt and fish and forage, how to build a shelter.
    Dorany Pineda Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The events are the same as the game, excluding present day gameplay where Ellie forages.
    Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The farmers let the droves freely forage for acorns, grass, and wild herbs, with each pig walking nearly nine miles a day.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Listen to birds caw, chirp and screech as squirrels forage.
    Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Dec. 2021
  • These guys live in groups of around 35, but forage in smaller circles.
    Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The workers, all females, care for the bigger queen and her offspring, maintain the nest, and forage for food.
    Fox News, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Sometimes, those birds swooped low, the earth exploded, and the children rushed to the site to forage for iron, which could be sold for a good price.
    Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
  • That is good news for anglers as the overall amount of forage available to salmon and trout increased.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Mushrooms are fun to forage, but how about growing them at home?
    Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2022
  • In the warmer months, the squirrels forage for a wide variety of foods, ranging from mushrooms to berries.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Both were introduced to the state decades ago, as both forage for livestock and to curb erosion.
    New York Times, 5 July 2021
  • When harvestmen forage for their own food, their legs come in handy as well.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2021
  • But the bison’s foraging appears to lead to more forage over time.
    Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 15 Sep. 2022
  • During the huge flash drought in 2012 in the central U.S., cattle ran out of forage and water became scarcer.
    Jeff Basara, Fortune, 26 May 2023
  • Walleyes, along with smallmouth bass and crappies, are in depths of 12 to 20 feet, because the forage has remained shallow.
    Joel Rippel, Star Tribune, 22 July 2021
  • For the city dweller, learning how to forage makes the world suddenly seem uncanny.
    Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2021
  • The small, silver forage fish died off in the millions each year, fouling beaches from Kenosha to Door County.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2021
  • The farm's goats fed on local hay from two family farms and roam pastures or forage for at least 12 hours a day.
    The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Sandhill cranes breed and forage in open prairies, grasslands and marshes.
    Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2023
  • In his formative years, Hirata learned how to hunt, fish, and forage with his cousins.
    Rachel Ng, Bon Appétit, 19 May 2022
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forage

2 of 2 verb
  • The cows were foraging in the pasture.
  • He had to forage for firewood.
  • The children found some of the food dropped by the searchers and foraged for seeds and fruits.
    Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
  • So many whales foraged in the bay that the mariners didn’t need to venture to the open ocean.
    Douglas Main, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The air hummed with birdsong, and with the bells of the mountain goats that forage in the highlands.
    Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Wasps forage over a wide area and might show up even if a nest is far away.
    Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The robin flocks were likely making their way north and stopped to forage and bathe in the pond.
    Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The creatures wore bells and were permitted to roam free in the streets to forage.
    Mary Dzon, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The parrots learned from each other — some foraged and flew for the first time.
    Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
  • In the north, people are forced to forage for wild plants during the day to break their fast at night.
    NBC News, 16 Mar. 2024
  • To eat, mammals had to travel above the ground – but the safest time to forage was at night, when dinosaurs were less of a threat.
    Andrey Vyshedskiy, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The walls are bathed in blue and the floor is scattered with plants that Saar foraged from the surrounding gardens.
    The Editors, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Rosa sat on a grassy patch, foraged for cassava and smiled.
    Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Extreme heat prompts them to forage less and rear fewer pups.
    Angela Dewan, CNN, 12 Feb. 2024
  • A century ago, the only way to get blueberries was to forage for them in the woods.
    Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Back at camp, keep an eye out in the evenings for foraging armadillos.
    Carrie Dennis, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2023
  • After the eclipse, the birds went right back to foraging and flying, Mekonen wrote.
    Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Plus, not having to forage for a vase in their cupboard takes one task off your hostess’ to-do list.
    Belle Duchene, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Aug. 2023
  • There is real joy in using bits and pieces foraged from the fridge to create something new.
    Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Read: The missing piece of the foraging renaissance All of this does have good climate math.
    Paige Curtis, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Like bats, the dolphins use echolocation to forage for prey in the cloudy waters of the Orinoco and Amazon River basins.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Ellie must forage for medicine and supplies in a mall, where Joel lies dying.
    Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 26 Feb. 2023
  • But with the heat disrupting much of the Bering Sea’s food web, snow crabs had a hard time foraging for food and weren’t able to keep up with the caloric demand.
    Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The sound helped Ramos locate the bird in the dense forest and observe its foraging behavior.
    Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
  • While young turtles largely forage for food, hunting adults tend to wait, with their mouths wide open, for their prey to come to them.
    Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 1 Nov. 2023
  • While their city counterparts have plenty of food to forage or kill.
    David Montesino, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Soon every morning one bird flapped off alone to forage while the other stayed behind to tend their eggs.
    Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The gophers spend most of their time underground and only venture to the outside world to forage for food or mate.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 July 2022
  • As winter sets in and wetlands freeze, some birds move to the lake to forage since its salty water has a lower freezing point.
    Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Up to 22 percent of ants can lose one or more of their legs during these encounters over the course of their foraging lives.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 Jan. 2024

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