Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of pasturage
Meanwhile, many of the same people were evicted from their houses as landowners used the crisis to clear off these human encumbrances and free their fields for more profitable pasturage.
—
Fintan O'Toole, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Here in rural Somalia, where about 50% of the people depend on animals for their livelihoods, the locusts are eating the pasturage.
—NBC News, 9 Feb. 2020
Except for some lands offering timber or pasturage, the far greater part of the land west of the line was by itself essentially not farmable.
—Johnforristerross, Longreads, 2 July 2018
Fintan O'Toole, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Here in rural Somalia, where about 50% of the people depend on animals for their livelihoods, the locusts are eating the pasturage.
—NBC News, 9 Feb. 2020
Except for some lands offering timber or pasturage, the far greater part of the land west of the line was by itself essentially not farmable.
—Johnforristerross, Longreads, 2 July 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pasturage
pasture
Noun
-
Through 2022, Smith built a 10,000-square-foot facility in the horse pasture behind his house and hired a head of operations away from Amazon to build out the company’s infrastructure.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
23 May 2026
-
But the idea that the pope would appear spoke to the overall image of Colbert’s Late Show as a thoughtful, more philosophical hour of comedy from its competitors—an ethos that will be hard to replace, now that CBS is putting him out to pasture.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2026
Cite this Entry
“Pasturage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pasturage. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
