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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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
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
Only here and there were thickets, easily avoided, while he encountered winding, park-like glades where the cattle had pastured in the days before war had run them off.
From The Night-Born by Jack London
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
Prosperous farms came into being in the meadows where the antelope had pastured.
From Where the Trail Divides by Will Lillibridge
