How to Use grazing in a Sentence

grazing

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  • The sheep aren’t the first grazing creatures to help out with the project.
    — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2021
  • With fewer elk grazing, the grass, shrubs, and trees grew.
    — National Geographic, 19 May 2020
  • The Vikings also cleared forests in order to use land for crops and sheep grazing.
    — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 12 July 2022
  • The first two shots hit his right leg and inflicted a grazing wound to his head.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Much of the open fields burned in the region were used for grazing and feeding cattle.
    — Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The home’s most iconic feature is a life-size statue of a buck grazing at the front of the mansion.
    — Hunter Boyce, ajc, 3 Mar. 2023
  • In the Amazon, farmers and loggers have long been known to set fires to clear land for grazing and crops.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Zebras could be seen grazing on the grass along the interstate.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The goats are within a fenced area and will take several weeks to finish grazing on the 3.5 acres.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The ridge was worthless for sheep grazing, their livelihood.
    — Richard Conniff, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022
  • In spring, when the grass flushes green, the herds return home from grazing in the hills each nightfall by themselves.
    — Kate Eshelby, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Waiting on the table is a skillet with refried beans, a stack of tostadas and limes for easy grazing.
    — Danielle Dorsey, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
  • But initially much of the region’s land went to grazing.
    — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2024
  • The goats are a first for the Arboretum, and their grazing is beneficial for the land and the goats themselves (free food!).
    — Abigail Rosenthal, Houston Chronicle, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Focus on your guests having fun, watching the game and grazing.
    — Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • If the family was among the winners of the era, the losers included the peasants displaced to make way for grazing land.
    — Allan Massie, wsj.com, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Rarely are any of these grazing animals alone, at this time of day or any other.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2023
  • At present the ranch is used for grazing purposes only.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2023
  • Lowland tapirs grazing on the riverbank, their long, flexible snouts half-buried in the grass.
    — Rebecca Shaw, TIME, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Water tanks froze, feedlots and dairies ran out of feed, and some grain-rich grazing fields were damaged.
    — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Skirt serene Lake Solitude, a twilight refuge for grazing moose.
    — Outside Online, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The Tomales Point Trail offers panoramic ocean views and a chance to spot herds of tule elk grazing on the bluffs and lots of pelicans, too.
    — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 15 July 2024
  • There are a lot of unhealthy traps that come with working from home, like the constant snack grazing or the lack of exercise.
    — Kathryn Vasel, CNN, 23 Apr. 2020
  • The wet valley floor is mown in the summer to provide hay for sheep in the winter months, when steep and rocky flanks of the valley are too cold and snowy for grazing.
    — The Economist, 5 Mar. 2020
  • The fire is thanks to his grandmother, too, an avid gardener who kept in her house a Thai chile plant for grazing.
    — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Near grazing rhinos and blowing grasses, a patch of rocks jutted out of the Kenyan landscape.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Don’t be surprised to find elk and deer grazing outside your window.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 2 June 2024
  • The spiny structure was meant to deter predators’ grazing.
    — New York Times, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Cullum rented the property where Butler and Kelley were found for cattle grazing, court records said.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Trump was speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13 when a gunman opened fire, with a bullet grazing the former president's ear.
    — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2024

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