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Example sentences for "pasturing"

Lexicographically close words:
pasturage; pasturages; pasture; pastured; pastures; pasty; pastyme; patache; pataches; patas
  1. This indication was confirmed by the large herds of cattle, sheep, and horses, which were pasturing around.

  2. In examining the relations between them, it would be difficult to distinguish the master from the slave: they live both alike in tents, and both alike occupy their lives in pasturing their flocks.

  3. Provided that at certain periods of the year it is allowed a short holiday for pasturing at its leisure, it will continue its service for fully fifty years.

  4. He replied, with a tone of deep and settled conviction, "We Mongols are formed for living in tents, and pasturing cattle.

  5. For many years afterwards they led a miserable life, from not being sufficiently strong to secure to their cattle good pasturing places.

  6. These chains form the northern boundaries of the Sinai mountains, and are the pasturing places of the Sinai Bedouins.

  7. We rested for the night in a pasturing place near the mountain, on the south side of the promontory.

  8. These valleys are the exclusive property of individuals, but the other pasturing places of the tribe are common to all its branches, although the latter usually remain somewhat separated from each other.

  9. 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.

  10. In summer he feeds on the flowers or dry grass of the pasturing places.

  11. We passed many excellent pasturing places, where the Arabs of the mountain feed their cattle in the spring; but the mountain is otherwise quite barren.

  12. From Djedel the ground becomes uneven, the pasturing places less frequent, the rocks higher, and the road more difficult.

  13. 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.

  14. Close pasturing or clipping late in the fall has had a marked effect on the growth of the plants the following spring on some fields and no apparent effect on the stand and growth of the plants on other fields.

  15. Beyond the water the fields stretch out in the distance, and here one can see the cows wandering around, pasturing on the moist grass; their eyes seem full of the dew, mist and freshness of the pasture.

  16. There was also to be given to them in common, enough land for pasturing and watering their cattle.

  17. While it is largely hilly and mountainous, there is considerable good sheep and cattle pasturing on it, and a fair amount of bottom land for cultivation along the river.

  18. I was beginning to cast about somewhat anxiously for a way of escape from this imprisonment, when I saw the pasturing herd suddenly toss up their heads, and then go scurrying away across the down.

  19. He was strongly opposed to pasturing in common; and everything went to show that people were foolish and wasteful, since they would not understand how to procure good food for themselves by means of their cattle.

  20. Mijwell, during our visit, had been seated in a corner, his eyes wandering from the tent and its furniture to the horses and mares picketed without, and to the flocks pasturing around.

  21. They belonged chiefly to the Zobeide, an ancient tribe, renowned in the history of the conquering Arabs under their first caliphs, and now pasturing their flocks in the wilds of Babylonia.

  22. Presently, through an opening in the leafy screen, he caught a glimpse of a tranquilly pasturing ewe, not much more than two hundred yards away.

  23. The woods are used for pasturing horses and cattle, for being an island, none of them can get off.

  24. Theunis had formerly lived in that neighborhood[370] and Jaques at that time missed a cow which was pasturing in the woods with the other cattle, as they always do.

  25. Pasturing land with sheep thickens the grass on the ground.

  26. The following brief directions for successful pasturing are essential.

  27. Its pines, under their branches, ope Ways for the pasturing kine.

  28. This was the place where I had met the yak herds two months before when they were pasturing their yaks on the grassy uplands.

  29. Many of the people are nomads, living in tents all the year round and moving about from camp to camp pasturing their herds of yaks and their flocks of sheep.

  30. The old moose, at her pasturing behind the rock, heard it too.

  31. While the great cow was pasturing on birch-twigs, the calf rested, with long legs tucked under him, on the dry, softly carpeted earth beneath the branches of a hemlock.

  32. Even as a bull standeth out far foremost amid the herd, for his is pre-eminent amid the pasturing kine, even such did Zeus make Atreides on that day, pre-eminent among many and chief amid heroes.

  33. In the western section of the Sahara the land of the oases is fit only for pasturing goats and sheep.

  34. The pasturing of vast herds of cattle and flocks of sheep, and the caring for droves of pigs and the rearing of horses, constitute the great occupations of the Transvaal Dutchmen.

  35. In cattle pasturing in low, marshy places, enteritis may be common.

  36. This title includes inflammation of the skin caused by pasturing on buckwheat, certain clovers and rape, together with moisture and sunlight.

  37. Such land should be used for pasturing horses and cattle, but if possible, it should be first drained and cultivated.

  38. Cattle pasturing on clover should be kept under close observation.

  39. In the northern States, cattle pasturing on marsh lands and swampy pastures are more often affected with the disease in the late summer and fall than at other seasons of the year.

  40. Cattle pasturing in stalk fields sometimes become infected in this way.

  41. It is rather rare, excepting in hogs that are pasturing on certain kinds of clover and rape, or on muck lands.


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