How to Use pastureland in a Sentence

pastureland

noun

• The area between the mountains is mostly pastureland.
• 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
• Bought last year with OnlyFans money, the 10 acres of pastureland once held a grove of pecan trees.
  — Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
• Barreto lives on a dead-end road, a single street with pastureland on both sides.
  — Michael Forster Rothbart, Scientific American, 10 June 2022
• Take the left fork a few yards south of the restroom, passing through the tunnel and heading into wide open pastureland.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2022
• And the animals need water to drink and land to live on, some of which is cleared of trees or native grasses for pastureland or to grow feed.
  — April Reese, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2014
• Erin Hills, an 11-year-old course shaped out of Wisconsin pastureland, didn't put up much of a fight without much wind.
  — Doug Ferguson, courant.com, 18 June 2017
• The Harts settled on a house on 2.2 acres of pastureland in Woodland, Washington.
  — Nina Shapiro, The Seattle Times, 7 Apr. 2018
• The rural pastureland, known as High Oaks, is owned by the Clayton family.
  — Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2023
• The land on which Fox Elementary is built was owned by the Fuchs family for more than five decades and used as pastureland for dairy cows.
  — Chevall Pryce, Houston Chronicle, 12 Feb. 2020
• Chickens pecked outside a coop, and in the distance, cattle grazed open pastureland that seemed to drop off into the sea below.
  — Ratha Tep, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2018
• The region consists mostly of dry pastureland and forests.
  — National Geographic, 17 Dec. 2019
• Then, around 2000, Constant asked if Heinecke knew of any pastureland that wasn’t being used.
  — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
• For more than six generations, one family has held the keys to 1,668 acres of pastureland right by the river mouth.
  — Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021
• The rolling hills and pastureland of Vernon County are home to the highest concentration of organic farms in the state.
  — Katy Spratte Joyce, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2020
• With temperatures soaring in this dry pastureland of North Dakota – and no rain to speak of in a year – the survival of the cattle is in Mr. Mrnak’s hands.
  — Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2021
• The warehouse was surrounded by what felt like an acre of siding, sawn and stacked high overhead, open to the sky and surrounded by pastureland.
  — Logan Ward, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2017
• Like most Quakers who came to Loudoun County, Hatcher was drawn to its fertile pastureland.
  — Kathy Orton, Washington Post, 3 June 2022
• With pasturelands dried up in the northeast of the country, an estimated 1.5 million goats and sheep have been struggling to find food, the U.N. report said.
  — Mujib Mashal, The Seattle Times, 27 May 2018
• After an hour or so on the old Roman salt road, the Via Salaria, hills become mountains, and fields become sloping pasturelands.
  — New York Times, 31 July 2019
• Hebrain had grown up there; just down the road, his dad has enough pastureland for two dozen cattle and a house with a veranda painted yellow.
  — Elizabeth Barber, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2020
• Star Lookout The Pleiades meet pastureland at this rustic cabin in the verdant upcountry of Maui.
  — Kyle Ellison, Travel + Leisure, 18 Apr. 2023
• Many farmers have seen their seeds dry out or have delayed planting crops, and there is little or no feed for livestock on pasturelands.
  — Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 27 May 2018
• Further east, in Lake, Geauga, Portage, and Trumbull counties, some owls also have been drawn to shorelines as well as plowed crop fields and pasturelands.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 17 Jan. 2020
• McFee has decided to rent pastureland where there is more grass to feed his cows, aiming to prevent overgrazing on lands where the grasses have dried up.
  — Ian James, The Arizona Republic, 23 Aug. 2020
• During the summer, ranchers sold off cattle as drought withered pastureland and hay crops.
  — Jen Skerritt, Bloomberg.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• Robertson père got 6,000 acres of undulating pastureland and forest atop craggy sea cliffs, one of which is home to the world’s largest mainland colony of gannets.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 17 Jan. 2019
• Brazil’s cerrado pastureland can be quite densely forested, with livestock grazing beneath the open canopy of the trees.
  — David Fickling | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2019
• With pasturelands dried up in the northeast of the country, an estimated 1.5 million goats and sheep have been struggling to find food, the United Nations report said.
  — Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 27 May 2018
• My family donated some of our dairy farm's pastureland to our local land trust, and now people walk on trails through the area where Holstein cattle once grazed.
  — Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024