How to Use pastoral in a Sentence

pastoral

adjective

• The bishop outlined the church's views in a pastoral letter.
• Her favorite painting in the collection is a pastoral landscape.
• The house is situated in a charming pastoral setting.
• There’s a porch to enjoy the pastoral view and a fire pit.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 14 Sep. 2022
• The pastoral grounds are an ideal place to unwind after a busy day.
  — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 5 Oct. 2023
• At the least, though, this might suggest that witness to the cross must always be the principal pastoral work of the leaders of the faith.
  — WSJ, 15 June 2022
• Jean Kennedy Smith and her husband Stephen owned a pastoral estate there.
  — Time, 29 Oct. 2022
• Hodges’ son Michael has also been through a pastoral restoration process.
  — Anna Claire Vollers | [e-mail], al, 10 July 2023
• The ban has made the atmosphere at Timber Creek both more pastoral and more carceral.
  — Natasha Singer, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• Many of their selections are far from the pastoral climes of their 2022 album Ashbalkum.
  — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 22 Aug. 2023
• Then came the movies, and over a few short years its pastoral landscape was transformed completely.
  — Vulture, 12 Sep. 2022
• But, at midday comes a disturbance in this pastoral scene — the notes of a marching band warming up.
  — Freep.com, 10 June 2022
• The Lodge currently does not have staff or programs geared to pastoral restoration, Hodges said.
  — Greg Garrison | , al, 14 July 2023
• The vineyard offers a pastoral peace and calm that renders the guest decompressed and relaxed.
  — Jillian Dara, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
• That pastoral landscape now looks more like the Pacific Ocean in many areas.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 2 Apr. 2023
• The pastoral vista shook with tremors from shelling, and every few moments, bits of the landscape burst into three-story clouds of dust and debris.
  — Matt Bradley, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2023
• The open floor plan is accented by large windows, casting in views of its pastoral setting.
  — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2023
• In a complaint echoed by those living near wind farms around the world, the turbines, which stand at about 680 feet tall, would ruin their land’s pastoral beauty.
  — Popular Science, 26 July 2023
• Benedict, on Monday, said that in the meeting no decision was made about whether to return the priest to pastoral duties.
  — Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2022
• Priests could not catechize children, bring the sacraments to the sick, or do pastoral work outside the local churchyard.
  — George Weigel, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
• Rural and private, Chilmark has a pastoral landscape: rolling hills, stone walls and sheep grazing on hillsides.
  — Jessica Flint, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
• The plates and linens come in two country colorways of blue and white (swoon) and red and white, with both featuring a mix or pastoral scenes and classic floral prints.
  — Hannah Jones, Country Living, 10 Apr. 2022
• But they were also deeply enmeshed in the politics of their time—not least because some of those pastoral retreats were in fact the result of exile by the court.
  — WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023
• On a summery July day, the Port of Rotterdam in the southern Netherlands feels almost pastoral.
  — Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2022
• And yet, sleeping in the pastoral elegance of the Texas Hill Country has apparently opened a new creative door.
  — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 27 June 2023
• The third movement supplied pastoral effects with oboe and harmonic flute stops.
  — Dallas News, 15 Feb. 2023
• The play is an end-of-the-Elizabethan-age work, full of wry contempt for its own pastoral form and rueful melancholy for a golden age already in sunset.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2022
• The church in Ireland, once a fortress for Catholicism, was so decimated by abuse scandals that Benedict in 2010 wrote the first pastoral letter from a pope on the issue of abuse.
  — Erika Solomon, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2023
• Equally stunning is the backyard which opens to rolling hills and breathtaking pastoral views in all directions.
  — Karen A. Avitabile, Hartford Courant, 29 May 2022
• Set against the pastoral landscape of wine country, Fredericksburg offers plenty to do and see year-round.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 15 June 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024