How to Use pastureland in a Sentence

pastureland

noun
  • The area between the mountains is mostly pastureland.
  • Barreto lives on a dead-end road, a single street with pastureland on both sides.
    Michael Forster Rothbart, Scientific American, 10 June 2022
  • Take the left fork a few yards south of the restroom, passing through the tunnel and heading into wide open pastureland.
    Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2022
  • And the animals need water to drink and land to live on, some of which is cleared of trees or native grasses for pastureland or to grow feed.
    April Reese, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2014
  • Erin Hills, an 11-year-old course shaped out of Wisconsin pastureland, didn't put up much of a fight without much wind.
    Doug Ferguson, courant.com, 18 June 2017
  • The Harts settled on a house on 2.2 acres of pastureland in Woodland, Washington.
    Nina Shapiro, The Seattle Times, 7 Apr. 2018
  • The rural pastureland, known as High Oaks, is owned by the Clayton family.
    Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The land on which Fox Elementary is built was owned by the Fuchs family for more than five decades and used as pastureland for dairy cows.
    Chevall Pryce, Houston Chronicle, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Chickens pecked outside a coop, and in the distance, cattle grazed open pastureland that seemed to drop off into the sea below.
    Ratha Tep, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2018
  • The region consists mostly of dry pastureland and forests.
    National Geographic, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Then, around 2000, Constant asked if Heinecke knew of any pastureland that wasn’t being used.
    Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
  • For more than six generations, one family has held the keys to 1,668 acres of pastureland right by the river mouth.
    Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The rolling hills and pastureland of Vernon County are home to the highest concentration of organic farms in the state.
    Katy Spratte Joyce, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2020
  • With temperatures soaring in this dry pastureland of North Dakota – and no rain to speak of in a year – the survival of the cattle is in Mr. Mrnak’s hands.
    Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The warehouse was surrounded by what felt like an acre of siding, sawn and stacked high overhead, open to the sky and surrounded by pastureland.
    Logan Ward, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2017
  • Like most Quakers who came to Loudoun County, Hatcher was drawn to its fertile pastureland.
    Kathy Orton, Washington Post, 3 June 2022
  • With pasturelands dried up in the northeast of the country, an estimated 1.5 million goats and sheep have been struggling to find food, the U.N. report said.
    Mujib Mashal, The Seattle Times, 27 May 2018
  • After an hour or so on the old Roman salt road, the Via Salaria, hills become mountains, and fields become sloping pasturelands.
    New York Times, 31 July 2019
  • Hebrain had grown up there; just down the road, his dad has enough pastureland for two dozen cattle and a house with a veranda painted yellow.
    Elizabeth Barber, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2020
  • Star Lookout The Pleiades meet pastureland at this rustic cabin in the verdant upcountry of Maui.
    Kyle Ellison, Travel + Leisure, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Many farmers have seen their seeds dry out or have delayed planting crops, and there is little or no feed for livestock on pasturelands.
    Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 27 May 2018
  • Further east, in Lake, Geauga, Portage, and Trumbull counties, some owls also have been drawn to shorelines as well as plowed crop fields and pasturelands.
    Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 17 Jan. 2020
  • McFee has decided to rent pastureland where there is more grass to feed his cows, aiming to prevent overgrazing on lands where the grasses have dried up.
    Ian James, The Arizona Republic, 23 Aug. 2020
  • During the summer, ranchers sold off cattle as drought withered pastureland and hay crops.
    Jen Skerritt, Bloomberg.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Robertson père got 6,000 acres of undulating pastureland and forest atop craggy sea cliffs, one of which is home to the world’s largest mainland colony of gannets.
    Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 17 Jan. 2019
  • Brazil’s cerrado pastureland can be quite densely forested, with livestock grazing beneath the open canopy of the trees.
    David Fickling | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2019
  • With pasturelands dried up in the northeast of the country, an estimated 1.5 million goats and sheep have been struggling to find food, the United Nations report said.
    Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 27 May 2018
  • My family donated some of our dairy farm's pastureland to our local land trust, and now people walk on trails through the area where Holstein cattle once grazed.
    Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2022
  • But the company, Flannery Associates, did not say what its plans were for the land, dotted with towering wind turbines and sheep grazing on pastureland.
    Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • With the increasing demand for soya and its by-products worldwide, vast areas of land were converted from pasturelands for cattle grazing to growing soya as a more lucrative option.
    Vogue, 28 July 2023

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