pasture
noun
an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
are pasturing
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present progressiveof pasture.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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It’s late Sunday morning, and everyone has gone to Otavalo except me and the other maids, who are pasturing the cows in the valley.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
The chief occupations of the Georgians are: pasturing, farming, jewelry work, silk-manufacturing, and wine-growing.
From Caucasian Legends by Abraam Abraamovich Goulbat
Above it, and beneath the next window higher up the tower, the country grows more mountainous, and sheep are pasturing among the fields.
From The Story of Rouen by Sir Theodore Andrea Cook
A flock of sheep and goats are pasturing on the meadowland above some cliffs which rise abruptly from the sea.
From Landseer A collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter with introduction and interpretation by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll
His cousins are pasturing their flocks on a hill.
From Moorish Literature by René Basset
