How To Use Graze In A Sentence

Cattle and sheep started to roam languidly towards the hill slopes where they grazed, mooing and baaing.
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
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.
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
The goats that grazed these trees began to lose their teeth and many died of starvation, much to the despair of their owners. Times, Sunday Times
I sit on the ledge and watch the sun play with incandescent shadows of deep green, as red deer graze in the distance.
Then, Antoine took care of the minor injuries like black eyes, grazes and cuts.
With this affidavit, the Hazarbuz tribe travel to the camping places by the specified paths, and while on their way and when they camp, they are not allowed to harm the arable and cultivated land of the Hazaras, nor may they [allow their animals to] graze on irrigated or unirrigated farm land and pasture lands belonging to the Hazaras. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
I accept that both the sheep and horses will graze the land.
Although it is perfectly good meadowland, none of the villagers has ever grazed animals on the meadow on the other side of the wall. STARDUST
After the harvest the peasants enjoyed the collective right to glean and to graze livestock on the stubble.
Further work proved dry cows can graze kale without requiring any fibre supplement such as silage or straw. FWi - All News
It was high enough to be a hayfield except where some farm animal had grazed.
Sheep graze, rabbits burrow, the young were out, you will see a giant triangular box (probably little owl) and nearby another magic dewpond.
The game may have its origin in ancient times, when herds of cattle grazed in the steppes and mountains and were exposed to the threat of attack by wolves.
Rivers only roll along to brighten up the landscape, and cattle graze only to give life to his drawings.
Following this extended period of stability the slope, whilst still grazed grassland, suddenly became unstable.
If you open up the commons for everyone to graze their sheep, one person is going to go get their whole flock.
Snails graze in abundance on sick and dying cordgrass.
At frequent intervals one can see their silver bellies as they twist about at the surface to gulp air or graze on algae.
The bullet grazed the corner of the building, just missing my arm.
Or does my ego need larger pastures in which to graze? Christianity Today
The hills have been grazed by sheep because they were too steep to be ploughed.
But domesticated grazers - with men guarding them and killing their predators - have no reason to clump together.
I grazed my knee when I fell.
When Christian does not protest and only peers back unblinkingly, Lucas allows his hand to lightly graze the downy skin of Christian's cheek before gingerly laying it upon the blonde's hand.
In the open-field areas of northern France they could glean after harvest and their cattle could graze on the stubble.
My ankles often collapsed underneath me, leaving me with grazed hands and ankles and a red face.
At Kildonan, domestic sheep and some cattle are grazed and the area has a large population of feral rabbits.
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
I was really surprised when he brought his hand up and as lightly as possible grazed my hot cheek.
Grazers, for example, must deal with abundant abrasive phytoliths and grit from feeding close to the ground, and accordingly develop strategies to deal with tooth abrasion.
Boo-Khaloum and his steed were both wounded, and Denham was in a similar plight, with the skin of his face grazed by one arrow and two others lodged in his burnoos. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
Tonight, they stood back to back and the top of his head grazed her ear.
When autumn chills the air, they strike camp and thread their way through the Nawar passes to graze their animals in warmer climes.
From any part of the salt tract one may see the boundary of the inner arable part of the district fringed with long lines of trees, from which every morning the villagers drive their cattle out into the saliferous plains to graze. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
Using mobile electric fencing, Jim herds his cattle through the fields daily to strip-graze concurrent sections.
Rats and guinea pigs nibble and graze continuously without well-defined meal times.
Areas unsuited for cultivation are used to graze large herds of sheep, cattle, and goats.
Here, in the scrubby land mantled in the after glow of a soft sunset, springbok leapt and Cape mountain zebra grazed even as herds of black wildebeest stared at us intently and then galloped away.
How many animals can one area, the ‘commons,’ support before it is overgrazed and production declines?
Wilson risked a two-stroke penalty on the 14th hole when his club grazed the sand as he replaced his ball, having marked it to allow Rose to play. Justin Rose moves four shots clear at the BMW Championship
After a time he stopped short, and from the steady _crop, crop, crop_, I knew he was amongst grass; and he grazed away long enough before moving on again at his old amble. Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer
The following day the ground rose up beneath us, and the fir trees thinned to larches, and there was more Sun and open glades with grass for our horses to graze upon.
One day in the mountains I met a young shepherd and we chatted for over half an hour while his scraggy sheep tinkled and grazed.
Minor cuts and grazes can usually be left uncovered to heal by themselves.
The reward was a view of a reed-edged lake, snow-capped mountains and a brilliant green mossy floodplain where wild horses grazed.
Most of it is grazed by flocks of sheep, goats, camels and cattle, often causing severe damage to vegetation.
She saw him smile lovingly when his fingers grazed her cheek and touched her hair.
Goslings graze with their parents out of the water whereas swans teach cygnets in the water to be aquatic feeders.
They graze through the monsoon and return to their homeland in September.
Mass media is a grazeable prairie of deceptively unfenced pastures.
The farmer grazes cattle on this land in the summer months.
She grazed her knee.
Mr Thompson said his main concern was that the farmers who usually grazed their cattle on the common land were running out of feed.
And don't overgraze that area this summer or late season growth will be slow.
In the Netherlands, almost a thousand wild horses bred to resemble the extinct tarpan graze in a 14,000-acre preserve. Pleistocene Park: Where the Auroxen Roam
When sharks are overfished, a cascade of effects can lead to a depletion of important grazers of plant life.
They reach weaning age while still consuming a diet mostly composed of milk, while their mothers graze on grass.
Staphylococci bacteria can also cause infections if they get into cuts and grazes on the skin. Times, Sunday Times
Saffers built up Kingsmead as their bounciest and fastest track with enough grass for all of Indias cows to graze and their batters got bounced out. The Ashes 2010: England have work to do after the euphoria | Duncan Fletcher
She reached out a hand toward him and lightly grazed his shoulder.
Ranchers graze cattle and water buffalo on floodplain grasslands to produce meat and secondarily dairy products.
Could neither graze nor pierce] [T: of change] To _graze_ is not merely to touch superficially, but to strike not directly, not so as to bury the body of the thing striking in the matter struck. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
Twenty crofters who share common grazing can meet regularly to decide how many beasts each can graze on the common.
The only plant eaters to survive were reindeer that grazed on lichens and moose that fed on willows.
He dropped the ewe count back to 750 and grazed 200 hoggets. 750 ewes at that time was regarded as an economic unit.
This requires restricting the number of sheep allowed to graze these areas so that the trees that centuries ago covered these areas can re-establish. Times, Sunday Times
The grazers are mainly antelope, wildebeest, hartebeest, oribi, impala, gazelle, reedbuck, roan and sable antelope.
The grazers are mainly antelope, wildebeest, hartebeest, oribi, impala, gazelle, reedbuck, roan and sable antelope.
The cyclist collided with the car and needed hospital treatment for fractured ribs and cuts and grazes before being allowed home.
A bullet grazed his arm.
The cows are wintered at home on arable by-products and are moved to Fleensop to graze in the spring.
The drier fields are still grazed and others cut for hay. A Guide to Britain's Conservation Heritage
I seem to be OK, though - my knees are grazed (but not too badly), and the toes of my left foot are evidently a bit sprained.
No farmers farmed, no livestock grazed and no trees cast shadows to obstruct the view from either side of the other. The Tribes Triumphant
They graze on zooplankton beneath the ice pack, making their response to climate change uncertain. Times, Sunday Times
Used to be, there was a section of land out there to the west that butted up against the west shore of that there lake, and it grazed sheep.
Nobody walks on a slope like this for choice, only sheep, and they don't let sheep graze this lot.
Hollis ' eyes grazed over the clutter on the desk, looking for a suicide note. AMAGANSETT
As parrotfish graze they scrape away minute bits of white coral limestone along with the algae covering.
In those exposed situations, it grazes on lichens, mildews and algal dust. Times, Sunday Times
Rhino species grazed temperate grasslands and tundra, and many were covered with a thick coat of hair.
The passengers were said to have suffered mainly cuts and grazes, with shock and whiplash.
No farmers farmed, no livestock grazed and no trees cast shadows to obstruct the view from either side of the other. The Tribes Triumphant
During spring, the heifers grazed crested wheatgrass and native sagebrush.
Cattle would graze Appalachian pastures intensively and be rotated from paddock to paddock, just as grass-fed Argentine cattle graze on the South American pampas.
My hands are scattered with various scratches, grazes and cuts, the worst of them on my middle finger, which looks as if it's been attacked with a hammer.
But often I grazed fields like this one, searching for silverweed, wild garlic, cress in the damp corners.
A bullet grazed his cheek.
The main problems have been broken bones, cuts and grazes.
Another concern is the welfare of their cows, following reports from other farmers, who already had pylons on their land, that livestock refuses to graze on the grass under the lines.
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
When the flood plains dry up cattle graze on the succulent marsh grass which grew while the plains were filled with water.
A Police spokeswoman said: ‘The victim suffered cuts and grazes to the head and bruising to the elbow, knee and ribs.’
Just 10 diners a night graze from a 20-course menu including dishes as unusual as a savory chocolate foie gras tartine.
Although the town had been platted some five years earlier, in 1888 Great Falls was still a raw village where families who wanted fresh milk kept a cow and grazed her with the town herd.
He fell down and grazed his knee.
Each year during harvest time, this rural community in Mali is host to two nomadic groups that come to graze their cattle or to work as herders.
Sagebrush and bunchgrass associations dominate plant assemblages outside of heavily farmed or grazed areas. Ecoregions of Oregon (EPA)
Rena's fingers lightly graze mine as she takes the flower back and sniffs it herself.
Finally, soaking up the deference of the others, the alpha designer leans forward, and exercising the absolute minimum of movement, grazes the lid open with the palm of his hand.
I felt his smooth, warm fingertips graze the underneath of my chin and gently lift it so he could see my eyes.
The incoming immune adults then graze the lower more fibrous echelons of the herbage which contain the majority of the L3.
Nine minutes before the interval, the visiting team grazed the post with a header from Sánchez. Times, Sunday Times
Farmers whose sheep graze the surrounding hills fear their own livelihoods may be jeopardised by the scandal. Times, Sunday Times
A graze is an injury to the skin in which skin is scraped off by rubbing against a rough surface.
Banking restructuring, too, has been put out to pasture to graze awhile. Times, Sunday Times
With a local farmer we graze sheep there. Times, Sunday Times
So, after releasing the cow and her calf to graze around the settlement, and checking on Rune and the other two horses in the outfield—he nickered with renewing spirit—she began retracing their steps to the mountain with the picture-stone. Raven Speak
Surface water will be absorbed into these ungrazed strips as into a blotter. Times, Sunday Times
Without grazers to remove them, the faster growing epiphytes could outcompete fucoids by covering all surfaces or at least covering enough surface area to decrease photosynthetic activity of Fucus.
The cool touch of fingertips grazed the back of his neck.
What actually happened is that the giant bag wobbled about in the gentle breeze until it lightly grazed a tree. Times, Sunday Times
To treat cuts, grazes, bites and scratches, wash the area carefully with a warm saline solution to which has been added two drops of thyme oil.
Plans were also announced yesterday to place disinfectant mats on strategic routes across North Yorkshire, including unfenced moorland roads in areas where sheep are free to graze.
Abundant marsh-marigold, northern marsh-orchid and meadowsweet occur in wetter ground; carpets of spring squill, bird's foot-trefoil and heath spotted-orchid cover cliff tops; the wetter heaths turn golden with bog asphodel; and grazing-sensitive kidney vetch and wild angelica have re-colonised some seasonally grazed pastures.
Although the results would seem to indicate American news consumers are "grazers" that switch between news sources on an ad hoc basis, the survey seems to show that while news consumers don't often seem to have favorite sites, they only utilize a handful of news sources in their typical day-to-day activities. Digital Trends
A charismatic flagship mammal is the strictly endemic bontebok (Damaliscus dorcas dorcas) which once grazed the extensive renosterveld plains of the South Coastal Forelands and is now mainly found in protected sanctuaries. Lowland fynbos and renosterveld
Cows graze contentedly in green fields, pigs and hens fossick in the dirt and bees buzz through orchards in bloom.
Lee probed the wound, sighing in relief when he determined it was just a graze.
The thorns pierced my skin and grazed my arms and neck.
In Western Australia a team of researchers has discovered that sheep will get an increased boost of vitamin E if they're grazed on saltbush.
The magnificent sorcerer-bred horses loaned to them by the Hythrun wandered off to graze. TREASON KEEP
-- Due premonition, it appears, had been publicly given of the impending tempest -- the cattle seem to have been sent out to graze, which is from Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
A bullet had grazed his arm.
The calves are grazed intensively during their first season.
He looked perfect, apart from a slight graze at the side of his head.
Where once there were acres of grain, there are now acres of barnacle geese; where sheep once grazed, there are widgeon and teal; lapwing and redshanks have replaced the cattle; his new crops are spoonbills, snipe, skylarks and linnets.
Tea tree cream is a useful stand-by antiseptic cream for cuts, grazes and fungal infections.
His mate said ‘it's just a graze - he only nicked you.’
Ralston, 46, suffered what Ross calls a graze wound to the left shoulder. CBS3.com - Philadelphia's Source For Breaking News, Weather, Traffic and Sports
It had become a tradition to have a huge grilled beefsteak dinner in honor of the Snowgrazer's dwindling use of land foods.
It may be grazed by horses, mules, cattle, sheep or swine, but when grazed with cattle and sheep, it is probable that some danger from hoven or bloat will be present, as when grazing other kinds of clover. Clovers and How to Grow Them
The greater return rate in ponds with small zooplankton is likely to be due to allometric differences between large-bodied and small-bodied grazers.
Here springbok leapt and Cape mountain zebra grazed even as herds of black wildebeest stared at us intently and then galloped away.
It has a moisturising, soothing action, which you can use on stings, cuts, grazes, spots, and sunburn.
Villagers traditionally have the right to graze their cattle on the common land.
‘That's reassuring,’ she responded, hobbling the mare with leather straps and removing her bridle so that she could graze.
Nearly every acre of the countryside has been grazed by cattle, tilled for crops, or cut for fuelwood.
They are the enchanted herd of Slieve Fuad, and from their abode subterrene they have come up late into the world surrounded by night that they may graze upon Eiriu's plains, and it is not lawful even to look upon them. The Coming of Cuculain
The team has evidence that letting sheep graze on recovering rangeland is not necessarily harmful - if the grazing is managed correctly.
Streams from the mountains' snows converged, so there was water for thriving crops like grapes and olives and lush grasses for cattle to graze on.
He also explained that in summer some herders migrate further up the mountain, moving into summer shacks, to let their cattle graze on better and different kinds of plants.
Happy birds chirped and tweeted, and a deer just barely out of sight grazed peacefully.
Treatment heifers had access to unlimited amounts of ungrazed forage prior to calving and were fed a different supplement.
I charge you, go immediately and comfort this poor woman with immediate relief; instead of her own cows, let her have two of the best milch cows of my dairy; they shall graze in my parks in summer, and be foddered with my hay in winter. — The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
In making a short losing hazard into the right top pocket across the head of the board, Newman just grazed his opponent's ball with his cue.
A small group of cow elk grazes in a grassland area created on former strip-mining land in Eastern Kentucky. Maria Rodale: Making Meat the Old-Fashioned Way
Whortle-leaved willow (Salix myrsinites) fruiting and growing in a grazing exclosure on limestone grassland that had been heavily overgrazed. Human impacts on the biodiversity of the Arctic
He was nursing a sore right side, where he was grazed by a police bullet.
Just blocks from the epicenter of the riots stand The Watts Towers, an amalgam of steel, concrete and multihued ornaments that graze the sky like cathedral spires, rising as high as 99 feet. The Watts Towers, Sturdy Survivors
None of them spoke as they followed suit, mutely unloading the weary, nervous shen of cargo and tack, then hobbling them and setting them free to graze.
I fell and grazed my knee.
Berseem is grown either over 3 months with 2 cuts as a soil improver (short berseem), usually preceding cotton, or over 6-7 months, either with 4-5 cuts as a fodder crop or grazed by tethered cattle (long berseem). Water profile of Egypt
He strapped it with a bandage, wiped her grazes with antiseptic and rubbed arnica into the worst of her bruises. CHAMELEON
His 18-year-old passenger escaped with minor cuts and grazes and did not need hospital treatment.
Many times I have sat on my grandmothers' porch and watched the deer come out of the woods to graze on the sweet grass of the fields surrounding my grandmothers' house.
The buck lives to fight, or rather graze, another day. Times, Sunday Times
He argues that access to the legal system for lawyers, judges, district attorneys offices, and others, can result in over-consumption in the same way that cattle can overgraze grazing land when many herdsmen have access to it.
The tendency to graze cattle, which is not hard work, and to "gad" about to cattle fairs, which are esteemed the greatest diversion the country affords, is an indication of the distinct superiority of the quick-witted Celt to the dull Saxon hind. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
The field had been grazed by sheep.
The bonefish are right over there, a silvery school materializing out of the greener water to graze the shrimpy mud of the flat.
He argued that a pasture managed as a commons will inevitably be overgrazed, because the benefits of grazing too many sheep accrue to the individual who has the most, while the costs are shared by all users.
Because cattle cannot climb to higher elevations, producers tend to graze their cattle in semiflat and flat lands, where precipitation is lower.
One of the children, five-year-old Stewart Weir, escaped with a bullet graze to the leg.
He had suffered cuts and grazes to his head, back, shoulders and arms in the attack.
Once considered mainly a feedlot pest, the stable fly has extended its reign of terror to the open pasture and rangeland, areas where cattle once grazed virtually unharried by the bloodsucking insect.
There is the touch of the camel-thorn acacia that has just been grazed by a giraffe, and the smell of wild sage as you brush past it in the bush.
They graze the land, keeping it from going wild and ensuring that local ecosystems are maintained. Times, Sunday Times
Without sea otters, urchins overgraze the kelp, eating the base of the plant so that it becomes detached from the sea floor and dies.
The site is a rich mixture of habitats, from open grassland to woodland and grazed riverside meadows. Times, Sunday Times
The track then passes over a new bridge made with the reclaimed railway sleepers, and overlooks a field grazed by cows.
She explains that the animals instinctively know when the tide is ebbing, and thus when to come down to the shore to graze.
As the inspector said, the land remains grassed and it would be possible for sheep to graze on it, but it retains physical features identified with the previous unauthorised use.
His only injuries were a cut knee and grazed forehead. The Sun
She had grazed her elbow quite badly.
She suffered only minor grazes in the crash.
To one side was a rolling expanse of pasture land, clustered with flocks of sheep so thick that hundreds must graze there.
Our herd of Democratic voters appears to have, again, grazed it's way into a patch of locoweed. Hillary W. Clinton v. John W. McCain
The buck lives to fight, or rather graze, another day. Times, Sunday Times
Their rightful place is outdoors where they can graze and behave naturally. Times, Sunday Times
I grazed my knee when I fell.
I grazed my knee when I fell.
So near was the moment of collision that the ship almost grazed the hurtling moonlet. Golden State
There were a lot of townhouses which were surrounded by land which was used to graze the cattle and other livestock belonging to the wealthy inhabitants.
The killing is driven by a fear that the animals will transmit brucellosis, a bacterial disease, to cattle that graze near the park's borders.
Was it overgrazed, undergrazed, poached or closed too late?
In Eurasia and North America, the spread of grasslands forced an evolutionary change in herbivorous mammals, with the forest browsers giving way to the prairie grazers.
She explained to the publican that this was a great English knight travelling from the Monastery to the court of Scotland, after having paid his vows to Saint Mary, and that she had been directed to conduct him so far on the road; and that Ball, her palfrey, had fallen by the way, because he had been over-wrought with carrying home the last melder of meal to the portioner of Langhope; and that she had turned in Ball to graze in the Tasker's park, near Cripplecross, for he had stood as still as Lot's wife with very weariness; and that the knight had courteously insisted she should ride behind him, and that she had brought him to her kend friend's hostelry rather than to proud Peter The Monastery
Farmers whose sheep graze the surrounding hills fear their own livelihoods may be jeopardised by the scandal. Times, Sunday Times
They grazed cattle on disafforested surfaces, building small stone huts to accommodate themselves, as well as the cattle they grazed.
They probably give thanks every day that they haven't been carted off to perform in some travelling circus and can just graze away in this beautifully quiet corner of the world.
For minor cuts and grazes, washing them well and covering them with a plaster or dressing is usually all that is needed.

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