How to Use grazing in a Sentence
grazing
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The sheep aren’t the first grazing creatures to help out with the project.
— Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2021 -
The Vikings also cleared forests in order to use land for crops and sheep grazing.
— Sarah Todd, Quartz, 12 July 2022 -
The first two shots hit his right leg and inflicted a grazing wound to his head.
— Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 12 Jan. 2022 -
Much of the open fields burned in the region were used for grazing and feeding cattle.
— Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2024 -
The home’s most iconic feature is a life-size statue of a buck grazing at the front of the mansion.
— Hunter Boyce, ajc, 3 Mar. 2023 -
In the Amazon, farmers and loggers have long been known to set fires to clear land for grazing and crops.
— Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 11 Aug. 2021 -
Zebras could be seen grazing on the grass along the interstate.
— Kerry Breen, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2024 -
The goats are within a fenced area and will take several weeks to finish grazing on the 3.5 acres.
— Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2022 -
The ridge was worthless for sheep grazing, their livelihood.
— Richard Conniff, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022 -
In spring, when the grass flushes green, the herds return home from grazing in the hills each nightfall by themselves.
— Kate Eshelby, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2023 -
Waiting on the table is a skillet with refried beans, a stack of tostadas and limes for easy grazing.
— Danielle Dorsey, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023 -
But initially much of the region’s land went to grazing.
— Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2024 -
The goats are a first for the Arboretum, and their grazing is beneficial for the land and the goats themselves (free food!).
— Abigail Rosenthal, Houston Chronicle, 15 Sep. 2020 -
Focus on your guests having fun, watching the game and grazing.
— Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024 -
If the family was among the winners of the era, the losers included the peasants displaced to make way for grazing land.
— Allan Massie, wsj.com, 14 Apr. 2023 -
Rarely are any of these grazing animals alone, at this time of day or any other.
— Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2023 -
At present the ranch is used for grazing purposes only.
— Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2023 -
Lowland tapirs grazing on the riverbank, their long, flexible snouts half-buried in the grass.
— Rebecca Shaw, TIME, 9 Oct. 2024 -
Water tanks froze, feedlots and dairies ran out of feed, and some grain-rich grazing fields were damaged.
— New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021 -
Skirt serene Lake Solitude, a twilight refuge for grazing moose.
— Outside Online, 8 Aug. 2024 -
The Tomales Point Trail offers panoramic ocean views and a chance to spot herds of tule elk grazing on the bluffs and lots of pelicans, too.
— Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 15 July 2024 -
The fire is thanks to his grandmother, too, an avid gardener who kept in her house a Thai chile plant for grazing.
— Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020 -
Near grazing rhinos and blowing grasses, a patch of rocks jutted out of the Kenyan landscape.
— Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024 -
Don’t be surprised to find elk and deer grazing outside your window.
— Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 2 June 2024 -
The spiny structure was meant to deter predators’ grazing.
— New York Times, 25 Aug. 2021 -
This process mimics the concentrated grazing of the huge herds of bovines that formerly filled the Great Plains.
— Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021 -
Cañada Real was once a pathway for farmers to cross Spain in search of fresh grazing ground for their sheep.
— New York Times, 25 Jan. 2021 -
The other option would be to maintain an area under the panels for low crops or grazing.
— Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 7 Sep. 2020 -
Cullum rented the property where Butler and Kelley were found for cattle grazing, court records said.
— Antonio Planas, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2024 -
The primary threat to the mallow is mining, but its habitat is also affected by grazing, human activity, climate change and non-native grasses.
— Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 18 Nov. 2024
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