pasture
noun
an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
had pastured
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past perfectof pasture.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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They had pastured their cattle there on the evening before; and conjectured that it must be the haunt of many kinds of game.
From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Mayne Reid
Some sympathetic influence is exercised on their uterine organs, and in a few days a greater or less number of those that had pastured together likewise abort.
From Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure by Robert Jennings
Prosperous farms came into being in the meadows where the antelope had pastured.
From Where the Trail Divides by Will Lillibridge
Besides this central path, there were numerous little by-paths made by the feet of cattle that had pastured here for a few months of the previous summer.
From Clover and Blue Grass by Eliza Calvert Hall
He had pastured her, since the baby died, in a canon about three miles northeast of the village,—a lovely green canon with oak-trees and a running brook.
From Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson
