How to Use graze in a Sentence

graze

1 of 2 verb

• The ball grazed the front of the rim and Wood grabbed the rebound.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
• The mother ran over the child’s back and grazed the side of his head, the chief said.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024
• Sheep that used to graze the area have had to be sold for lack of feed.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2023
• The shots struck Mercedes and grazed the arm of the boy, police said.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
• Or three, the call is wrong and [the bullet] might have just grazed him.
  — Stephanie Colombini, NPR, 18 Apr. 2024
• That means having a lot of food to graze on, even aside from the big bites.
  — Aly Walansky, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
• Knight was grazed in the head by a bullet and survived the shooting.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 7 Oct. 2023
• The shorter layers fell to her chest, but the rest were long enough to graze her waist.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 27 June 2023
• The next day, Godfrey’s car was shot up and a bullet grazed him.
  — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 23 Jan. 2024
• But without the land, there will be no reindeer to graze.
  — Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2022
• The boots graze the top of the ankle, and a colorful brand plaque and striped pull tab finish the look.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2023
• Nick Cross leaped high in front of a 6-foot-5 tight end to graze and deflect the ball with his finger tips.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 29 July 2022
• Her silky, straight hair was on the longer side for a bob and grazed her collarbone area.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 13 June 2023
• Her brows and hair, which grazed her knees, were bleached a platinum blonde to finish off the look.
  — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 12 May 2023
• It’s designed with a high-waist that falls into a baggy leg that’s meant to slouch and graze the floor.
  — Paula Lee, Glamour, 7 Nov. 2023
• Animals have been brought here to graze for around 2,000 years.
  — CNN, 14 Aug. 2022
• Arguably the hotel's biggest perk is the herd of elk that's known to come and graze on the property's grounds.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 23 June 2023
• The reservoir is to be built in a valley fringed with oak trees, where cattle now graze on the grasslands.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• Loro’s patio is a perfect stop for a group wanting to graze.
  — Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2022
• In the film, which is ad-libbed, Kermit and Fozzie are perched in the fork of a tree while a herd of dairy cows grazes in a distant pasture.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 5 June 2023
• Maurice fought back and the men shot at him five times, hitting him twice in the leg and grazing him above his eye once.
  — Kenan Draughorne, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2023
• Below, shop 28 shin-grazing leather midiskirts that get the street style seal of approval.
  — Laura Jackson, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2023
• The White Helmets said Masto was grazing sheep when the strike killed him and several of the sheep.
  — Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 2 May 2024
• During that service, a rifle shot grazed the back of his neck and came close to taking his life.
  — Gerard Leval, wsj.com, 23 Apr. 2023
• Officer Cory Galloway, who fired the round that took down the assailant, was grazed in his left side.
  — Andrew Wolfson, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2023
• The shortest pieces seemed to hit her chin area while the longest pieces grazed her collarbone area.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 28 Sep. 2023
• But my children were grazing our sheep and the settler came and harassed them.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• Who shat on the floor at my wedding?, a silly whodunnit that wrapped two and a half years ago, is grazing the top of the charts.
  — Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 22 Dec. 2023
• Goats graze in the pastureland above, and bees hum in the apricot trees on the adjacent hillside.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2023
• Her choppy bangs just grazed her eyebrows while the rest of her black waves cascaded to her chest.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 31 Oct. 2023

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graze

2 of 2 noun

• Davis was shot in the right shoulder and received a graze wound to his side.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 22 Mar. 2023
• That’s a 10-foot-tall fence to protect our stock from deer graze.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 3 Feb. 2023
• Wild horses gallop through the rolling sand dunes and graze at Stafford Field.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2023
• Police described the injury to one of the women as a graze wound.
  — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2021
• The survivors had injuries from graze wounds to gunshot wounds; two people were shot in the back.
  — Colin Sheeley, NBC News, 18 June 2023
• Keep right elbow tight next to body so biceps graze ribcage.
  — Megan Falk, Women's Health, 18 Aug. 2023
• The boy was treated for a graze wound at a hospital and released.
  — Molly Walsh | [e-mail], cleveland, 5 Sep. 2023
• Arguably the hotel's biggest perk is the herd of elk that's known to come graze on the property's grounds.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 12 Mar. 2022
• Nick was rushed to a hospital and treated for a graze gunshot wound to his leg.
  — Jamie Yuccas, CBS News, 2 Dec. 2023
• Guests should be able to grab and graze (provide toothpicks or tiny forks or tongs for picking up items).
  — Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2023
• And a 21-year-old woman in the restaurant was taken to a hospital to be treated for a graze wound to her leg.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2023
• Another woman sustained a graze wound to the right arm.
  — Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 30 July 2023
• Outside, cattle graze across the rolling hills and the voices of herdsmen are a distant soundtrack.
  — Nokukhanya Musi, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2023
• She was taken to a hospital with what police believed to be a graze wound.
  — Chelsea Prince, ajc, 26 Oct. 2021
• The boy, who suffered a bullet graze to the leg, tracked down a Kansas City police officer.
  — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 16 Feb. 2024
• Normally there are about 200 ponds on the desert range where the cattle graze, filled in the late summer and early fall by monsoon rains.
  — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 May 2021
• The first victim, a 17-year-old male, was located with a non-life-threatening graze wound to the head, police say.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 13 Jan. 2023
• At daybreak, deer graze until spooked by the motion of a window blind being raised.
  — Mary Bergin, chicagotribune.com, 26 Nov. 2021
• Getting the ants high up in the grass for when cattle or deer graze during the cool morning and evening hours, and then down again to avoid the sun’s deadly rays, is quite smart.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2023
• The girl’s grandmother sustained a graze wound and was hit by shattered glass but refused to go to the hospital.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 18 Aug. 2023
• The other cheerleader, Heather Roth, suffered a graze wound.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 19 Apr. 2023
• Officers also found a 2-year-old girl who sustained a graze wound.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 22 June 2023
• In the aftermath, five teens were hospitalized and Thompson's 9-year-old child suffered a graze wound to the hand.
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2022
• An eighth victim may have suffered a graze wound, according to Cox, who added that there could be more victims.
  — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 26 Aug. 2023
• Within the barn, in the fields that the cattle graze, in the new world that the chickens emerge into, uncontained by their coop for what is unmistakable the first time.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2021
• The 14-year-old had a graze wound in the right arm but refused transportation to a hospital, according to police.
  — Olivia Alexander, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2023
• The boy suffered a graze wound to the left hand, and was taken in good condition to Comer Children’s Hospital.
  — Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2023
• The autopsy report showed Arbery was shot in the upper and lower chest and suffered a shotgun graze to his right wrist.
  — NBC News, 7 Oct. 2021
• Officers found a man outside a home suffering from a graze wound.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 1 Jan. 2023
• Then, in a third unrelated shooting at around 10 p.m., a 25-year-old Dublin man survived a graze bullet wound to the head near Lake Merritt, police said.
  — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024