graze

[ UK /ɡɹˈe‍ɪz/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹeɪz/ ]

NOUN

VERB

break the skin (of a body part) by scraping
She was grazed by the stray bullet
let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
eat lightly, try different dishes
There was so much food at the party that we quickly got sated just by browsing
scrape gently
graze the skin
feed as in a meadow or pasture
the herd was grazing

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How To Use graze In A Sentence

Cattle and sheep started to roam languidly towards the hill slopes where they grazed, mooing and baaing.
I felt that weird shifting movement and a feathery light object grazed my bare skin.
A painful red stroke appeared on her chest as the sword grazed her skin.
The baboon would keep the goats together as they grazed during the day, giving alarm calls if it spotted cheetahs or leopards. Times, Sunday Times
To successfully graze and grow yearlings, a combination of very high quality winter and summer grasses must be available.
As he did so something grazed his face, oh so lightly, like the tremulous wall of a bubble. EVERVILLE
For her fiftieth birthday Don built Rebecca a chicken tractor - a long wire enclosure on wheels that enables her to graze chickens along the rows of green manure forage.
The amphipod Gammarus tigrinus exhibits a range of feeding behaviors, including that of macrophagous grazer and shredder, and predator / cannibal.
The grassy slopes were grazed by apparently fearless and footsure sheep, and in parts the sheer cliffs were occupied by seabirds - fulmars, kittiwakes and auks.
The word-play grazes against rhyme, the lilt of the language tilts readers into lineated juxtaposition. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed

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