How to Use grazing in a Sentence

grazing

noun
  • The sheep aren’t the first grazing creatures to help out with the project.
    Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2021
  • With fewer elk grazing, the grass, shrubs, and trees grew.
    National Geographic, 19 May 2020
  • The Swedish-themed restaurant has sod on the roof and goats can be found grazing during the day.
    Christopher Magan, Twin Cities, 14 Sep. 2019
  • The Vikings also cleared forests in order to use land for crops and sheep grazing.
    Sarah Todd, Quartz, 12 July 2022
  • The style has about an inch of dark roots, lash-grazing bangs, and the wet, almost stringy texture.
    Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 9 July 2019
  • The first two shots hit his right leg and inflicted a grazing wound to his head.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Much of the open fields burned in the region were used for grazing and feeding cattle.
    Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The home’s most iconic feature is a life-size statue of a buck grazing at the front of the mansion.
    Hunter Boyce, ajc, 3 Mar. 2023
  • In the Amazon, farmers and loggers have long been known to set fires to clear land for grazing and crops.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The calf has been growing and exploring its habitat at the zoo, grazing in the grass and the hay and starting to run.
    Hannah Drown, cleveland, 24 Apr. 2019
  • Zebras could be seen grazing on the grass along the interstate.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The goats are within a fenced area and will take several weeks to finish grazing on the 3.5 acres.
    Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The ridge was worthless for sheep grazing, their livelihood.
    Richard Conniff, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Much of the surrounding area used to be ranch land, and cattle grazing kept the buildup of flammable shrubs and grasses in check.
    Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Most days, these cattle live out docile, carefree lives on the ranch, grazing on tall grass.
    Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2025
  • In spring, when the grass flushes green, the herds return home from grazing in the hills each nightfall by themselves.
    Kate Eshelby, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Waiting on the table is a skillet with refried beans, a stack of tostadas and limes for easy grazing.
    Danielle Dorsey, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
  • Goats trim the landscaping while grazing and in turn produce milk for guests.
    Juliana Shallcross, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2019
  • But initially much of the region’s land went to grazing.
    Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2024
  • The goats are a first for the Arboretum, and their grazing is beneficial for the land and the goats themselves (free food!).
    Abigail Rosenthal, Houston Chronicle, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Focus on your guests having fun, watching the game and grazing.
    Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • If the family was among the winners of the era, the losers included the peasants displaced to make way for grazing land.
    Allan Massie, wsj.com, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Rarely are any of these grazing animals alone, at this time of day or any other.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2023
  • At present the ranch is used for grazing purposes only.
    Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2023
  • Lowland tapirs grazing on the riverbank, their long, flexible snouts half-buried in the grass.
    Rebecca Shaw, TIME, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Water tanks froze, feedlots and dairies ran out of feed, and some grain-rich grazing fields were damaged.
    New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Lacerations on the shin and calf looked like grazing wounds.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Skirt serene Lake Solitude, a twilight refuge for grazing moose.
    Outside Online, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The Tomales Point Trail offers panoramic ocean views and a chance to spot herds of tule elk grazing on the bluffs and lots of pelicans, too.
    Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 15 July 2024
  • Research has demonstrated that logging and grazing under the guise of wildfire prevention emit about three times more carbon into the atmosphere, per acre, than wildfire alone.
    Delaney Rudy, The Denver Post, 22 Feb. 2025

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