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pastureland

noun

Definition of pastureland

as in pasture

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Recent Examples of pastureland The flip side • Bravo to Rachel in east Orange County/Chuluota for fighting against developers who want to turn beautiful cattle pastureland into 1,800 homes. — Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 May 2026 But if the weather gods smile upon you, the Root River State Water Trail provides a gentle to moderate flow past bluffs, pastureland, and small towns. — Robin Pfeifer, Midwest Living, 23 Apr. 2026 Norman Vigil runs 25 black Angus on Ghost Ranch pastureland. — John Burnett, NPR, 14 Mar. 2026 The alpine pastureland is home to herds of goats and cows and small families of shepherds who have worked the land for lifetimes. — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 31 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pastureland

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Noun

Back in the pasture, Namgyal moved the herd down the fence line.

— David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2026
Other regenerative farming techniques include moving grazing animals around pasture to let the remaining portions recover, and planting trees and shrubs on working agricultural land next to crops or livestock.

— Bloomberg, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of pasture

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By then, firefighters had begun to arrive as flames spread across the dry grasslands and the family hurried to evacuate.

— Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Crews using bulldozers and helicopters continued for a 10th day to fight a fire that has burned nearly 525 square miles (about 1,360 square kilometers) of grassland in western Idaho and eastern Oregon.

— John Hanna, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of grassland

Noun

Eastern box turtles are native to New Jersey, and tend to prefer to live near woodlands and meadows, according to the Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey.

— Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026
Blumstein came up with the idea for the OnlyFans account while sitting in a meadow, waiting for marmots to appear and pondering the state of scientific funding for his work.

— Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of meadow

Noun

Neil Hagdorn heard the cracking of the land, the rush of water as if a landslide were spilling down from the treeless moor hills to the east.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 July 2026
Everything about this verdant, bucolic space is antithetical to the fog, fire, and wide-open, sprawling moors that have so far dominated the movie.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 26 June 2026

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