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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At the foot of the mountain we entered a rich plain, where the shepherds were pasturing their flocks down to the shore of the sea, and in about two hours arrived at Lepanto.
From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) by John Lloyd Stephens
Over us was a dainty sky of shell pink, placid cows were pasturing around us; the farewell summers nodded to us in the friendly breezes.
From The Story Girl by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Our road lay over a low plain between the Djebel Kessoue and the Ledja, in which the Bedouins of the latter were pasturing their cattle.
From Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by John Lewis Burckhardt
The correspondent who had the experience with his pointer dog relates this incident about his blooded mare: A drove of horses were pasturing in a forty-acre lot.
From Ways of Nature by John Burroughs
On the high ridges of the mountain goats were pasturing, and not far from them a shepherd's fire was blazing, and the shepherd himself sat beside it.
From Dr. Dumany's Wife by Mór Jókai
