grazing

noun

graz·​ing ˈgrā-ziŋ 

: herbage or land for grazing

Examples of grazing in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But sometime between 100 million and 200 million years ago, the moon's orbit became unstable, and a series of gravitational interactions sent Chrysalis on a fatal, grazing encounter with Saturn. —Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2026

Reporting on the ground in northeast Louisiana last month, where Meta is building its massive Hyperion AI data center on over 2,250 acres of former farmland, I was struck by a street sign just minutes from soybean fields, grain silos, and grazing cows. —Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026

Day to day, that means monitoring rainfall patterns, obsessing over grass quality underfoot and practicing rotational grazing religiously. —Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 26 Mar. 2026

That evening, residents said fires burned two uninhabited homes that sat on active farm and grazing lands. —Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1517, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for grazing

• blazing
• brazing
• crazing
• gazing
• glazing
• hazing
• lasing
• phasing
• phrasing
• praising
• raising
• razing