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• The pastoral scenes from those commercials don’t bear too much resemblance to the rote of daily life on a farm.From the entry rote
• Since the long centuries of pastoral agriculture, production has been transformed.2013, Michael Boylan, Environmental Ethics. From the entry monotonist
• It’s beautiful, but never naïvely so; the pastoral moments were offset by barrelhouse intrusions.2008 January 14, Ben Ratliff, “Jazz Showcase Fever Propels a Mini Marathon”, in New York Times. From the entry barrelhouse
• This Toronto group plays multitextured instrumentals that veer from clangy turbulence to pastoral, acoustic daydreams.2007 March 23, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times. From the entry multitextured
• Many Türkmen tribes adopted a pastoral economy, though some settled into villages as animal husbandmen.2000, James J. Reid, Crisis of the Ottoman Empire: Prelude to Collapse 1839–1878, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, →ISBN, page 209. From the entry Türkmen
• But he has brought economic motivation into the privileged sanctuary of pastoral, courtly, and religious poetry.2000, Robert ter Horst, “Poetics and Economics in Luis de León”, in David Foster, Daniel Altamiranda, Carmen de Urioste, editor, Spanish…. From the entry privileged sanctuary
• The capacity of pastoral to assimilate a tragedic apparatus is tested in Il pastor fido.1998, Robert Henke, “Pastoral as Tragicomedic in Italian and Shakespearean Drama”, in Michele Marrapodi, A. J. Hoenselaars, editors, The…. From the entry tragedic
• The fellow across the road gives up farming and turns his place into a pastoral bootleggery .1927, Plain Talk, page 94. From the entry appropriate
• The fellow across the road gives up farming and turns his place into a pastoral bootleggery.1927, Plain Talk, page 94. From the entry bootleggery
• If ever music could encapsulate the spirit of Sardinia’s rugged mountains and pastoral landscapes, it is canto a tenore.2022 July 7, Alexis Averbuck, Duncan Garwood, Gregor Clark, Lonely Planet Sardinia, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 418. From the entry cantu a tenore
• Womanist theologian Chanequa Walker-Barnes has joined the faculty of Columbia Theo­logical Seminary as professor of practical theology and pastoral counseling.2021 June 3, Dawn Araujo-Hawkins, “Chanequa Walker-Barnes joins Columbia Theological Seminary”, in The Christian Century, archived from…. From the entry Chanequa
• The ungreening world insistently intrudes as natural fact, as cultural locus, and – so pastoral reminds us – as literary tradition.2015, Sabine Wilke, German Culture and the Modern Environmental Imagination, page 35. From the entry ungreen
• Pastoral systems in East Africa are dual operations which produce milk for subsistence and beef cattle and smallstock for sale.1991, Solomon Bekure, “Livestock transactions, food consumption and household budgets”, in Maasai Herding: An Analysis of the Livestock…. From the entry smallstock
• Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera’s eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.1977, Susan Sontag, “Melancholy Objects”, in On Photography, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 71. From the entry billboard
• Like the pastoral form in general, Respire offers us virtualized nature as if it were nature itself: in this instance, a version of cyberpastoral.2010, Alf Seegert, “Till We Have [Inter]faces: The Cybercultural Ecologies of Avatar”, in Western Humanities Review, volume 64, page 113. From the entry cyberpastoral
• The harlequinade ceases for the moment, and a two-character tragedy begins with the shepherds Thyrsis and Corydon, whose names derive from ancient pastoral poetry.2008, Bernard F. Dick, Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty, page 18. From the entry Corydon
• They held respected positions and wielded power in country towns, but in the wider district the pastoral squattocracy was still considered powerful and important.2005, Rosamond Siemon, The Eccentric Mr Wienholt, University of Queensland Press, page 206. From the entry squattocracy
• Pirates, buccaneers, the gowned ladies of the ancient pastoral – all the traditional subjects of imperial history – are among the images that take shape.2001, Patricia Ismond, “Society and Nationhood in the Caribbean: Towards Another Life”, in Abandoning Dead Metaphors: The Caribbean Phase…. From the entry gowned
• As the grain elevator and other industrial structures became more common on the plains, they redefind the traditional pastoral image of the American landscape.1996, Lisa Mahar-Keplinger, Grain Elevators, Princeton Architectural Press, pg. 9. From the entry grain elevator
• These exarchies arose in the ninth century when the superiors of monasteries exercised pastoral care of faithful who belonged to churches dependent on the monastery.1992, John D. Faris, Catholic Church, The Eastern Catholic churches. From the entry exarchy
• There are churchlike or synagoguelike chapels and leaders who deliver Sunday sermons, perform pastoral duties, and conduct "services," though without prayer to a deity.1991 September, Paul Kurtz, “The Two Humanisms in Conflict: Religious vs. Secular”, in Free Inquiry, volume 11, number 4, page 49. From the entry churchlike
• Rising at 1 in 64 through delightfully pastoral and well-wooded countryside, the line reaches its summit at Wootton Station, 3 m. from Newport.1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 243. From the entry well-wooded
• Homer Smith, it has been held that 'In general the pastoral incidents serve as an underplot, utterly foreign in spirit to the main plot.'1906, Walter W. Greg, Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama. From the entry underplot
• On May 13, the day before Mother's Day, believers from urban and pastoral areas celebrated the formation of the women’s fellowship at Yaodu District Church in Linfen City.2023 May 18, Zhang Xiaohua, “Shanxi Church Establishes Women's Fellowship”, in China Christian Daily, archived from the original on 21 May…. From the entry Yaodu
• From the first moments of his papacy it has been evident that Francis is a “people person,” with a gentle common touch and a gift for pastoral outreach.2013 September 25, Jeff Jacoby, “Pope’s interview is fodder for the culture war”, in Boston Globe, retrieved 16 Oct 2013. From the entry common touch
• Safronov had Schubert’s piano sketch as a guide, but his big, boomy orchestration, with a gentle pastoral trio at its core, sounded jarring after the first two movements.2008 February 26, Allan Kozinn, “In Precise Movements, a Russian Sense of Drama”, in New York Times. From the entry boomy
• Similar spoons with pendants have been excavated from the graves of China's northern pastoral neighbors west of the Taihang Mountains at Chujiayu, Shilou county, Shanxi Province.2002, Emma C. Bunker, “Catalogue”, in Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 192, column 2. From the entry Shilou
• Maybe their pastoral family, with their 2.4 children, is at the perfect age and life stage for that church, and yours does not seem to be (or vice versa).1993, Carl F. George, How to Break Growth Barriers: Capturing Overlooked Opportunities for Church Growth, Baker Books, →ISBN. From the entry 2.4 children
• How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation, Dresden figures of pastoral gaiety!1945, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 3, in Brideshead Revisited […], London: Chapman & Hall, published 1952, →OCLC, book 1 (Et in Arcadia Ego)…. From the entry unreflecting
• “The potato knishes, the milkhiker borscht, the cheese kreplekh, the varnishkes, the pirogen, blintzes, buttermilk, and for dessert pudding and poppy cakes — the food of a Jew’s pastoral dream.”2020 March 16, Dwight Garner, “An Illustrated Love Song to Jewish Restaurants of Old”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry kreplekh
• Afterwards, Gareth Southgate conjured up the modern English pastoral when he said he was glad to have delivered goals for a public watching at home on a “warm Sunday afternoon”.2018 June 24, Sam Wallace, “Harry Kane scores hat-trick as England hit Panama for six to secure World Cup knock-out qualification”, in…. From the entry back garden

Meaning of pastoral

1. adjective Of or pertaining to shepherds or herders of other livestock.
2. adjective Relating to rural life and scenes, in particular of poetry.
3. adjective Relating to the care of souls, to the pastor of a church or to any local religious leader charged with the service of individual parishioners, i.e. a priest or rabbi.

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Questions about pastoral in a sentence

How do you use pastoral in a sentence?

Pastoral is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “We were living a pastoral life.”

What is a short sentence with pastoral?

“a pastoral letter”

What does pastoral mean?

Pastoral means of or pertaining to shepherds or herders of other livestock.