pasture
noun
an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
have pastured
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present perfectof pasture.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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But here, it needed but a stake driven into a foreshore that would hardly have pastured a donkey, and that was enough—so much adversity have they seen....
From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions
I have pastured my orchard with hogs, but have quit it.
From The Apple by Various
For Crewe Moss would easily have pastured a hundred cows, though it would most likely happen that an odd one might get laired in the soft places now and then.
From Deep Moat Grange by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Never have pastured my orchard, but am going to very soon; am fencing now, so I can turn in hogs.
From The Apple by Various
It seemed as if Philemon’s only cow must have pastured, that day, on the richest herbage that could be found anywhere in the world.
From The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) by Various
