12 example sentences using pastoral.
Pastoral used in a sentence
Pastoral in a sentence as a noun
In a nomadic pastoral culture, wealth might be owning a big herd.
There are several cities here but many, many more pastoral small towns, much like New England.
Somehow, we can turn Venus into a pastoral world but we can't scrub a few trillion tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere?
The phrase "mud huts" evokes a primitive pastoral lifestyle, but there are a lot of places where mud brick is simply a sensible building material.
This would presumably make quite a difference for semi-starving pastoral populations in 10,000 BC.
We are not pastoral nomads, we are not jungle hunter-gatherers, we are not inhabitants of tiny city-states.
Pastoral in a sentence as an adjective
The setting is an abstract, somewhat pastoral landscape full of things whose descriptions are alien but extremely evocative.
It's not hippy pastoral-era farming vs post-modern industrial farm.
A foreign more technologically advanced people came in with weapons and technologies that were basically magic to these hunter gather/pastoral people.
It might be one reason why pastoral farmers[1] thought that women were "unclean", and I'd be interested to know whether goddess-worship comes from more agrarian than pastoral societies.
The Cain and Abel story clearly establishes that the authors are pastoral farmers who distrust those sneaky evil agriculturalists; and they also have an extensive code of cleanliness which includes a woman as unclean during menstruation.
Even the ideal pastoral rural hobby egg-farmer has intrinsically cruel aspects because of the useless male chicks and occasional violence between chickens... but it feels like these would be lower hurdles to overcome with technology than weaving synthetic beef on a magical meat-loom.
Pastoral definitions
a letter from a pastor to the congregation
a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)
of or relating to a pastor; "pastoral work"; "a pastoral letter"
relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral land"; "a pastoral economy"
See also: bucolic