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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of pasture.

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Examples

  • The next generation of labels will say "grass fed" butter and "pastured" pork.

    thursday quickies: turkey day edition jlundberg 2005

  • Remember that Obama for 20 years attended a church 'pastured' by a racist who preaches hatred of America and 'white people'.

    Theodore's World 2010

  • The Sylvania, Ga. -based farm sells all-natural "pastured" eggs, which means the chickens who laid the eggs were allowed to roam in open pastures and enjoy their, er, birdliness.

    Island Packet: Home 2009

  • The Sylvania, Ga. -based farm sells all-natural "pastured" eggs, which means the chickens who laid the eggs were allowed to roam in open pastures and enjoy their, er, birdliness.

    Island Packet: Home 2009

  • The Sylvania, Ga. -based farm sells all-natural "pastured" eggs, which means the chickens who laid the eggs were allowed to roam in open pastures and enjoy their, er, birdliness.

    Island Packet: Home 2009

  • And all the hunting animals will be killed, and, as Hair-Face said, all the hill-sides will be pastured with goats and all the high mountain valleys will be planted with corn and fat roots.

    THE STRENGTH OF THE STRONG 2010

  • Because we would not work the miles of sugar-cane where once our horses pastured, they brought the Chinese slaves from overseas.

    Koolau the Leper 2010

  • They only sell pastured meats from animals which have been raised on small local sustainable ranches within 150 miles of the shop... and they have personally visited each of their suppliers.

    Jay Weston: Lindy and Grundy -- Two Women Butchers Take L.A. by Storm Jay Weston 2011

  • Only here and there were thickets, easily avoided, while he encountered winding, park-like glades where the cattle had pastured in the days before war had run them off.

    War 2010

  • And yet the state, which includes all the citizens of the state, believes that it can blot out this wisdom of mine in the final dark by means of a rope about my neck and the abruptive jerk of gravitation — this wisdom of mine that was incubated through the millenniums, and that was well hatched ere the farmed fields of Troy were ever pastured by the flocks of nomad shepherds!

    Chapter 1 2010

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