pasture
noun
an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
were 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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One day a traveler was walking through a part of Italy where a great many sheep were pasturing.
From Fifty Famous People by James Baldwin
Herds of cattle, goats, and native sheep were pasturing here and there, or lying beneath the shade of the acacias scattered about the plain.
From Tales of South Africa by H.A. Bryden
We met with a few tents of Arabs Zereykat and El Hayb, who were pasturing their sheep upon the wild herbs by the road side.
From Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by John Lewis Burckhardt
The Doctor laughed and looked at the cows that were pasturing in the roadside fields, for they were passing a farming village.
From Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners by Louis Agassiz Fuertes
A wide field stretched away from the back door, lying partly upon a hill-side; and several cattle were pasturing in it.
From Diana by Susan Warner
