Sample Sentences for
pastoral
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pastoral as in:  a pastoral scene

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The cabin was charming in its pastoral setting.
pastoral = countryside
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    The painting depicted a pastoral scene with sheep grazing in a meadow.
    pastoral = of idyllic country life
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    She often listens to Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony to relax.
    pastoral = relating to an idealized charmingly simple and serene country life
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    Only when he coasted on the cloud, skimming over the autumnal colors of the pastoral world, only then did he realize what he hated most about Val's letter.  (source)
    pastoral = countryside that is charmingly, simple, and serene
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    THE ISLAND temple, built in the style of Nicholas Revett in the late 1780s, was intended as a point of interest, an eye-catching feature to enhance the pastoral ideal, and had of course no religious purpose at all.  (source)
    pastoral = charmingly simple and serene country life
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    I have, therefore, chosen this drawing-room, where you see, smiling and happy in their magnificent frames, your portrait, mine, my mother's, and all sorts of rural landscapes and touching pastorals.†  (source)
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    The field would be green, but it wasn't a pastoral scene: these were girls in danger, in need of rescue.  (source)
    pastoral = serene country
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    Chapter XII Mr. and Mrs. Glegg at Home In order to see Mr. and Mrs. Glegg at home, we must enter the town of St. Ogg's,—that venerable town with the red fluted roofs and the broad warehouse gables, where the black ships unlade themselves of their burthens from the far north, and carry away, in exchange, the precious inland products, the well-crushed cheese and the soft fleeces which my refined readers have doubtless become acquainted with through the medium of the best classic pastorals.†  (source)
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    "It is pastoral," she said, looking around.  (source)
    pastoral = countryside that is charmingly, simple, and serene
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    Carley's memory pictures of the Adirondacks faded into pastorals; her vaunted images of European scenery changed to operetta settings.†  (source)
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    Contrary to the predictions of many, Pastoral China not only survived, but thrived.†  (source)
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    Come, take your flowers; Methinks I play as I have seen them do In Whitsun pastorals: sure, this robe of mine Does change my disposition.†  (source)
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    One showed a pastoral scene so three-dimensional, it could've been a window.†  (source)
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    Sunday after the pastoral, we were visited by a contingent of prostitutes.†  (source)
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pastoral as in:  pastoral care

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Pastoral duties filled his days.
pastoral = related to a pastor (minister or priest)
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    He is currently working on an MA in pastoral counseling.  (source)
    pastoral = related to the work of a pastor (minister or priest)
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    There are pastoral duties—  (source)
    pastoral = related to a pastor (minister or priest)
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    Each must have assumed that the others were there for some business other than pastoral and had rudely chosen that moment to deal with it.  (source)
    pastoral = that relating to a pastor's duties (those of a minister or priest)
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