How to Use pastoralism in a Sentence

pastoralism

noun

• The fire and smell of a wood or charcoal burn calls forth a sense of rugged pastoralism—but could your woodsy fantasy destroy the actual woods?
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 9 July 2021
• These lands also have deep cultural significance based on their role in pastoralism or fire practices.
  — Sutirtha Lahiri, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2023
• Here, capitalism and pastoralism are often seen as opposing forces.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2020
• The Himba response to the aridity of Kaokoland is nomadic pastoralism.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2018
• Frachetti, who specializes in pastoralism in the Bronze Age, was also not involved with the study.
  — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 18 Nov. 2025
• The wheel was invented around the same time, and the two innovations, combined, allowed nomadic pastoralism to flourish.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• The adaptation, created by Patrick Somerville, rejects much of this pastoralism.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2022
• Its growth was stimulated by small gold strikes in the 1880s and, most importantly, by pastoralism.
  — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026
• In one disturbing incident, the ranchers discuss the death of pastoralism in a community meeting.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 2 May 2024
• The main livelihood activities are pastoralism (raising of cows, goats, sheep and camels) and/or subsistence farming — raising food crops for one’s household.
  — Vincent Kituku, idahostatesman, 2 June 2017
• Some scientists, however, say there’s no environmental reason to turn away from pastoralism.
  — Michael Benanav, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2024
• Many conflicts play out in rural areas characterized by smallholder agriculture or pastoralism.
  — Leah Samberg, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2017
• With pastoralism and agriculture, the animal was just an animal, forever separated from man.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2020
• Other scholars delinked the arrival of Tutsi from the development of pastoralism and the beginning of the period of statebuilding.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 Aug. 2011
• But according to the Tom Nook doctrine, pastoralism and capitalism coexist perfectly.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2020
• Unfolding in three movements, the trio mixes stylistic influences from English pastoralism and French impressionism to striking effect.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2021
• Our survey also revealed that hunting and foraging was generally replaced by pastoralism (raising animals such as cows and sheep for food and other resources) and agriculture in most places, though there were exceptions.
  — Ben Marwick, The Conversation, 29 Aug. 2019
• Additionally, there is a strong correlation between pastoralism and lactase persistence.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2011
• The epoch of predatory pastoralism came to an end, and surviving pastoral economies were steadily marginalized, doomed by the scientific revolution which led to the mechanization of agriculture and industrialization.
  — Adam Kuper, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
• In Africa, the Pygmies and Bushmen have been absorbed or pushed aside by the demographic Bantu juggernaut, with a few other language groups also hitching a ride on the agriculture/pastoralism economy.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 18 Dec. 2010
• From 1868 pastoralism was underpinned by a pearling industry that used Aboriginal women and, subsequently, Malay, Japanese, and other Asian sojourners as divers.
  — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026