pasture
noun
an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
was pasturing
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past progressiveof pasture.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The calf was pasturing in one of the glades, while her foster mother was wallowing and splashing down among the lilies.
From Children of the Wild by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
One afternoon, going on foot from La Turbie to Roquebrune, I ran across him near his hut, where he was pasturing some sheep.
From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Vicente Blasco Ib??ez
Here the infant was found by a herdsman of Polybus, king of Corinth, who was pasturing his flock upon Mount Cithaeron.
From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch
While she spoke, Richard was pasturing his eyes, the two mouths of his soul, on the heavenly meadow of her face; and she for very necessity went on talking, that she might not cry again.
From There & Back by George MacDonald
One day, as I was pasturing the sheep that I had in charge, two lambs went astray.
From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Eugène Sue
