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Example sentences for "browsing"

Lexicographically close words:
brownstone; brows; browse; browsed; browses; browt; broyled; brudder; brudders; brugge
  1. I had scarcely got to the edge of the opening when I saw that the herd was browsing in towards Frank.

  2. I can remember that I showed it to a cow that was browsing by the wayside, exclaiming as I did so: 'Look at that, my old beauty; you will not often see its like again.

  3. Innocent people were shot to prove that they knew how to kill; in forests which had never seen a Prussian, stray dogs, grazing cows and browsing horses were killed.

  4. Within two hours I saw two other herds of seven and nine each, and every day thereafter it was quite a common thing to run across groups of these strange-looking animals browsing among the trees.

  5. We would first locate the rhino, usually somnolent under a thorn tree or browsing soberly out in the open.

  6. Now it was so much dirt and rock and grass with cows and horses browsing stupidly across all of it.

  7. Within the first hour they glimpsed a number of scattered cattle and mules; once Helen cried out at the discovery of a small herd of deer browsing in a shaded draw.

  8. But are they not just as much exposed to browsing animals in the high table-lands as in the desert, if not more so?

  9. The spines on the blackberry and raspberry do not save them from browsing cattle, nor their fruit from the birds.

  10. The need of high feeding, say the selectionists, but other browsing animals must have felt the same need.

  11. Our moose is strictly a browsing animal, and, while his neck and shoulders are high, and his lips long, they do not approach those of the giraffe.

  12. It is a struggle of some kind which begets something like ill-temper in vegetation--heat and drought in the desert, and browsing animals and poor soil in the temperate zones.

  13. But I believe if there had never been a browsing animal in the desert the cacti would have had their thorns just the same.

  14. She listened to music, looked at pictures, renewed her reader's ticket, and spent whole days browsing under the Bloomsbury dome.

  15. The hunt struck upon him now and again, when the hounds in full cry streamed down his steep escarpments and threatened panic to his browsing goats.

  16. From the sharp axe defend my boughs, and from “The browsing flocks.

  17. Under the shelter of the foothills, cold as the day was, his cattle were feeding in the open, scratching away the thin layer of snow and browsing on the tender grass underneath.

  18. On the night of his arrival, to his great pleasure, a giant moose ambled out of the forest and began leisurely browsing on the twigs of the moosewood trees which formed an undergrowth of the great hardwood forest.

  19. Deer and elk, at that period thronged along the mountains in such numbers that droves often could be seen browsing upon the budding saplings or lazily basking in the noonday sun.

  20. Herds of browsing cattle crowd the lovely valleys through which we drove the buffalo.

  21. The herds of the different companies were browsing on the hillsides half a mile away, strong pickets being thrown out in their front, and each herd guarded by a sergeant and party from its own company.

  22. He is met in a pasture all absorbed in his favourite occupation, that is to say, browsing imaginary grass.

  23. At some distance from his house, which was situated on a lonely farm, he saw an ass browsing in an oat-field by the side of the road.

  24. Head and antlers are carried on the shoulders, and the stalkers approach the game, browsing as they go.

  25. At some distance from the inclosure thousands of cattle were browsing upon the grassy level, their spotted flanks and long upright horns showing their descent from the famous race of Spanish bulls.

  26. Beyond this lay an open tract of meadow, or prairie, upon which were browsing thousands of cattle.

  27. The mules were browsing quietly at the distance of a quarter of a mile from the corral.

  28. At this moment a sudden bend in the Danube brought us beneath a rock crowned with the crumbling ruins of a Genoese castle, at whose base a flock of goats were browsing on the green underwood that clothed its fissures.

  29. Some of them may have caught sight of the lads, but if so, they did not consider them worth attention, for they continued browsing and grazing, advancing step by step toward the spot where our young friends stood.

  30. The next minute, he broke into a hearty laugh, for that which he saw was the lost cow, quietly browsing on the tender herbs, as though just turned loose by her owner.

  31. Whoever sees fit to turn animals into the street, should send some one with them who will be sure to keep them out of mischief, which browsing young trees in a forest clearly is.

  32. They were all in motion, some browsing along, while hundreds of them were constantly bounding up into the air full ten feet high, and leaping a-top of each other.

  33. When first observed by Von Bloom, they were quietly browsing upon the plain.

  34. A few of the foremost only galloped back a bit, or bounded up into the air; but they again set to browsing quite unconcerned, and the main body advanced as before!

  35. The animal in question was browsing quietly along, and at length approached a small clump of bushes that stood out in the open ground.

  36. Anthrax, which is due to a spore-bearing organism, can certainly be conveyed to animals browsing on grass soiled by the dung or blood of infected animals.

  37. Ill and wretched, I left the horrible room where a crowd of people were smoking, spitting, and smelling, and made my way to a sort of deserted public garden, where cows were browsing on the lilacs.

  38. Now the iron beast, consuming its ration of coal, is really browsing the ancient foliage of arborescent ferns in which solar energy has accumulated.

  39. Their short flights may land them, now in one place, now in another, on the browsing herd, but they pay no attention to it.

  40. It is browsing a strange kind of grass, the handsome mitres that remain standing on end.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "browsing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.