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Recent Examples of pasture
Noun
Between Chickasha and Cement is more than 10 miles of pasture and woodland.—Dale Denwalt, Oklahoman, 12 Jan. 2026 The Mountain Campus features pastures, hills, lakes, log cabins, an old mill, and hiking trails leading to the House O’ Dreams, a large stone and board-and-batten cottage on top of Lavender Mountain.—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2026
Verb
But, having the right formula for long-term success remains elusive for many, with Canoo, Fisker and Nikola all put out to pasture with bankruptcy filings.—Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025 Grab a brush and head out to pasture to meet cows like the affable Ellie, a 5-year-old Highland who loves the limelight, and Bonnie, the independent matriarch.—Chrissy Suttles, Axios, 21 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pasture
Joe Deviney, the county agricultural commissioner, said that so far none of the farms or ranches leaving the federal land has found a new location in Marin County.
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Richard Halstead,
Mercury News,
26 Jan. 2026
In Strawberry Park Valley, this 15-acre ranch is about 15 minutes from the 182-trail Steamboat Resort.
Two women are recovering after they were grazed by gunfire Wednesday night on the city's South Side.
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Jeramie Bizzle,
CBS News,
29 Jan. 2026
As San Jose police and other law enforcement agencies converged on the site, authorities say Husien rushed a police sergeant who had just arrived and opened fire, touching off a close-range gunfight in which the sergeant was grazed in the head by a bullet.
Meanwhile, many of the same people were evicted from their houses as landowners used the crisis to clear off these human encumbrances and free their fields for more profitable pasturage.
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Fintan O'Toole,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
Here in rural Somalia, where about 50% of the people depend on animals for their livelihoods, the locusts are eating the pasturage.
He is seen surrounded by an ocean of brown prairie grass, gone dormant for the winter.
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Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
28 Jan. 2026
Wetlands in the area are also home to Everglades snail kites, which hunt for apple snails in freshwater marshes, and other rare species that once inhabited vast wet prairies drained for highways and neighborhoods.