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How to use graze in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Graze means the act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing. Example: “Cattle graze in the meadows.”

Examples of graze by meaning

verbTo feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.

  • Although it is perfectly good meadowland, none of the villagers has ever grazed animals on the meadow on the other side of the wall.1999, Neil Gaiman, Stardust

verbTo feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture).

  • Cattle graze in the meadows.
  • The long neck is well adapted for grazing.1993, John Montroll, Origami Inside-Out, page 41

verbTo eat small amounts of food periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes, often not in response to...

  • Furthermore, people who take the time to sit down to proper meals find their food more satisfying than people who graze throughout the day.2008, Mohgah Elsheikh, Caroline Murphy, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
  • Many people, however, snack and graze from roughly the time they wake up until shortly before they go to bed.2018 July 24, Anahad O’Connor, “When We Eat, or Don’t Eat, May Be Critical for Health”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

verbTo shoplift by consuming food or drink items before reaching the checkout.

  • Had the Grievant attempted to pay for the Mylanta or actually paid for it, then she would not be guilty of grazing or shoplifting.2001, Labor Arbitration Information System, volume 2, page 59

verbTo rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.

  • the bullet grazed the wall

verbTo cause a slight wound to; to scratch.

  • to graze one's knee

More sentences with graze

  • I've always grazed my animals on the common land and I'm not going to stop now.From the entry common land
  • The bullet barely grazed the wild fowl's fly.From the entry fly
  • The livestock were poisoned by what they grazed on.From the entry livestock
  • The tree's whippy branches grazed his face.From the entry whippy
  • His fingers gently grazed my cheek." Look at me." At first, I resisted.2023 May 31, Jo Wilde, The Angel Series Collection - Books 1-3, Next Chapter. From the entry coal
  • One American M48 was slightly grazed and one American troop lightly wounded.2018 August 8, Donald R. White, Death In a Lonely Place, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 82. From the entry troop
  • Reading about their exploits is like watching lissome cows graze in a field.2013 June 4, Dwight Garner, “A Literary Mind, Under the Spell of Drugs and a MacBook”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry lissome
  • Grazelands are mainly natural, of low quality and are grazed, in most cases, throughout the year.2005, A. Georgoudis, A. Rosati, C. Mosconi, Animal Production and Natural Resources Utilisation in the Mediterranean Mountain Areas…. From the entry grazeland
  • The chooks ran free in the paddock behind the chookyard, where the house cow also grazed.2002, Susan Hawthorne, Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalisation, Bio/diversity, →ISBN, page 177. From the entry chookyard
  • The ganders spread abroad, sheepwise, grazing, and gabbling as they grazed.1924 November 30, F. St. Mars [Frank Howard Atkins], “The Raider”, in Adventure, volume 49, number 6, page 159. From the entry sheepwise
  • Between was the wild valley where cattle grazed among the trees and the massive bowlders.1900, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, The Doomswoman. From the entry bowlder
  • Grazes were visible under his torn clothing as he pedalled, with a face like thunder, to the finish line.2020 August 29, Jeremy Whittle, “Alexander Kristoff takes Tour de France yellow jersey after day of crashe”, in The Guardian. From the entry pedal
  • The grazes on his back redressed, he allowed Sean and the nurse to ease him back against the pillowed bed rest.2017 September 19, Dee Jones, chapter 78, in The Cup Bearer, book 1 (Escape), Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, Sunday 7ᵗʰ April 1996. From the entry pillowed
  • The best thing about Hayling Island (apart from its spanners) was its bounteous bushfuls of blackberries, from which I readily grazed.2011, Josie Dew, Slow Coast Home. From the entry bushful
  • The chestnut's white blaze and mane were liabilities after dark, so Cas left him tethered in graze behind the pines.2006, Ralph Compton, John Edward Ames, Deadwood Gulch, Penguin, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry witch's bridle
  • They walked or ran on their hind legs, and leaned down on their shorter front legs to graze on vegetation.2005, Carson Creagh, Simone Ende, Angela Milner, Dinosaurs. From the entry duckbilled
  • Early one morning, a tiger on the prowl overheard two mithun gossiping as they grazed in a clearing.2005, “Tseube”, in First Sun Stories: Unusual Folk Tales from the North East, Katha, published 2011, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry mithun
  • We “graze,” moving from one munchie to the next, stopping to chat when we come upon a fellow grazer.2002, Terry Thompson-Anderson, Texas on the Plate, Fredericksburg, Tex.: Shearer Publishing, →ISBN, page 21. From the entry munchie
  • The livestock grazes in fallow lands and gauchers (common lands).2002, Ecological Study of Thol Lake Wildlife (Bird) Sanctuary (page 13). From the entry gaucher
  • The bullet didn't go deep—one muscle, vastus externus, was grazed.1994, Constance Garnet, transl., edited by Elizabeth Cheresh Allen, Fathers and Sons, translation of Отцы и дети (Ottsy i dety) by Ivan…. From the entry vastus externus
  • Deer graze the lawns of the historic estate at Wawona and of the golf course across the road.1992, Pamela Hegarty, “Yosemite National Park”, in Paula Consolo, editor, Fodor’s National Parks of the West, New York, N.Y.: Fodor’s…. From the entry Bambi
  • It is a larger plant with larger, more showy flower heads, but is seldom found on grazed southern forest range.1984, Harold E. Grelen, Common Herbaceous Plants of Southern Forest Range, page 97. From the entry prairie fleabane
  • "One I merely grazed with a coffee-glass."1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 512. From the entry coffee glass
  • In the Nariel Valley there are immense and lovely candlebarks rising singly from the rich paddocks where the dairy cattle graze.1950, Elyne Mitchell, Australian Treescapes: A Photographic Study. From the entry candlebark
  • Cave invertebrates frequently graze on lampenflora.2015, Annette Summers Engel, Microbial Life of Cave Systems. From the entry lampenflora
  • With the jeans part way down and the upper slopes of her white-pantied bottom exposed, Penny gasped as Mark's knuckles grazed her bare stomach.2006, Rod Waleman, The Stepdaughters. From the entry pantied
  • With time, nutrients are leached from the organic material, rabbits graze the vegetation, and the species become more typical of daleside communities.1999, C. Philip Wheater, Urban habitats. From the entry daleside
  • There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountain sheep graze unconcernedly.1955 July, D. S. Barrie, “Railways of the Bridgend District”, in Railway Magazine, page 449. From the entry sheep
  • One side of the road was entirely unbuilt on and afforded the prospect of a level meadow where hay was made and real animals grazed in due season.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry unbuilt
  • In proper California fashion we made our nooning by the roadside, pulling up under the shade of a hospitable sycamore and turning Sorreltop out to graze.1909, Various, The California Birthday Book. From the entry nooning
  • Soon the asteroid Apophis will destroy your palaces, and your armies will graze the grass and die from lack of food and diarrhea, like troops of Xerxes retreating from Ellada.2022, Serhij Abramyk, Enlightening Message, →ISBN. From the entry Ellada
  • The meat goats are grazed in organic olive orchards, and are also used in three counties for fuel load reduction in ponderosa pine plantations, firebreaking in forests and land cleaning.1997, Sustainable Agriculture - Volumes 9-12, page 62. From the entry firebreaking

Meaning of graze

  1. noun The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
  2. noun A light abrasion; a slight scratch.
  3. noun The act of animals feeding from pasture.

Full definition of graze

Questions about graze in a sentence

How do you use graze in a sentence?
Graze is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Cattle graze in the meadows.”
What is a short sentence with graze?
“to graze one's knee”
What does graze mean?
Graze means the act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.

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