Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for pasture. Search instead for to pasture.
Definitions

pasture

[pas-cher, pahs-] / ˈpæs tʃər, ˈpɑs- /
NOUN
field for animals
Synonyms


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

The government has put the dearth of milk in recent months down to drought, which has significantly reduced pasture and hampered production.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

“There’s no paid staff, and we mostly support niche tech projects, like people exploring new ways to preserve trees in Morocco or to regeneratively regrow a pasture in Oregon,” Khosla told me.

From Slate Aug. 18, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 8, 2026

“I love working with animals,” she said, plodding down a gravel road toward a clover-carpeted pasture.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

I was so worried and scared that I didn’t even hear Sam coming until I was across Read’s pasture and climbing over a stone wall at the other side.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

So Verstappen is earning a bit more money but, if Red Bull are still struggling for competitiveness next year, there will remain the prospect he could look for pastures new.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

The ranchers depend on snowmelt that feeds the Colorado River and its tributaries to nourish grasses and hay pastures for their herds.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

But that focus on greener pastures is as persistent as the apparent blood feud between Texas and Tennessee.

From Salon Aug. 3, 2026

The number of cattle on U.S. pastures has fallen to its lowest level in 75 years, after ranchers struggled with years of rising costs and drought.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

Some farms let their animals graze through open pastures.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

More recently, Lake, who grows vegetables such as asparagus, tomatoes and zucchini, as well as pastured meat, has been using software and an app from a company called Tend.

From BBC Jan. 19, 2026

And while players won’t get free laundry and dry cleaning, or a menu containing pastured eggs and wild-caught seafood in player dining, they at least get access to cold plunges and courtesy cars.

From Seattle Times Nov. 28, 2023

Lee sources the beef for her burgers from Seven Hills Food, the slaughterhouse and processing facility that specializes in pastured Virginia beef.

From Washington Post Aug. 17, 2021

Grass Roots Farmers' Cooperative sells grassfed beef, forested pork and pastured poultry from a network of small farms mostly located in Arkansas and Missouri and owns and operates its own processing.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2021

White ranchers pastured cattle there, especially during the dry years when no grass grew below the mountain.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

The tradition of alpine pasturing, or “transhumance,” spreads all across the Alps, including Austria, Italy and Germany.

From New York Times Jan. 21, 2024

In the past 30 years, swaths of Nicaragua's vast Caribbean forests have been destroyed by settlers clearing land for agriculture, ranchers pasturing cattle, and loggers harvesting precious wood.

From Salon Oct. 12, 2020

“We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.”

From The New Yorker Oct. 19, 2015

“And what is the history? The horse pasturing has been going on for a long time there with no objection.”

From Seattle Times Jan. 24, 2015

I was about five years old, and, against my mother’s wishes, I went to school instead of pasturing the sheep.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau




Vocabulary lists containing pasture


Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Join 14,000,000 vocabulary learners

Start learning new words today on VocabTrainer.
You'll remember them forever.

Start training