How do you use the word "pasture" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "pasture": The pasture has an area of 10 acres. A cowboy is driving cattle to the pasture.

Pasture Meaning

/ˈpɑːst͡ʃə/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounLand, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.

nounGround covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.

Sentence Examples

The pasture has an area of 10 acres.

A cowboy is driving cattle to the pasture.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

grass crop graze

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The cows ate grass in the green ____ near the old barn.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The cows grazed contentedly in the green ____ as the farmer watched from the gate.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- Proto-Indo-European *péh₂sti Proto-Italic *pāskōr Latin pāscor Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin pastūra Anglo-Norman pastourbor. Middle English pasture English pasture Inherited from Middle English pasture, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pastour, from Latin pastūra, from pāscor + -tūra.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"He maketh me to lie down in green pastures." — 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalm 23:2:

"So graze as you find pasture." — 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:

"Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous […]." — 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

"It was reserved for Christians to torture bread, the staff of life, bread for which children in whole districts wail, bread, the gift of pasture to the poor, bread, for want of which thousands of our fellow beings annually perish by famine; it was reserved for Christians to torture the material of bread by fire, to create a chemical and maddening poison, burning up the brain and brutalizing the soul, and producing evils to humanity, in comparison of which, war, pestilence, and famine, cease to be evils." — 1831 July 15, “Of the Blood”, in Western Journal of Health, volume 4, number 1, L. B. Lincoln, page 38:

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