PASTORAL in a Sentence

Learn PASTORAL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

26 example sentences for PASTORAL, such as:

1. Many churches provide excellent pastoral counselling.
2. A priest's pastoral duties include helping the poor and sick.
3. Carol was ashamed to have this spy from the Great World hear the pastor's maundering.
4. the Bishop for expenses of carriage, expenses of posting, and expenses of pastoral visits.
5. The Bishop did not omit his pastoral visits because he had converted his carriage into alms.

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pastoral
 a.  rural; relating to shepherds or herders; relating to the country or country life
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  the Bishop for expenses of carriage, expenses of posting, and expenses of pastoral visits.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME
2  The Bishop did not omit his pastoral visits because he had converted his carriage into alms.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP
3  This "pastoral visit" naturally furnished an occasion for a murmur of comment in all the little local coteries.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
4  One day Monseigneur the Archbishop while making his pastoral visit saw a pretty little rosy girl with beautiful golden hair enter the class-room through which he was passing.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—GAYETIES
5  "Quite a pastoral state of innocence all round," returned Miss Belle with a shrug.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER NINE
6  An artist friend fitted her out with his castoff palettes, brushes, and colors, and she daubed away, producing pastoral and marine views such as were never seen on land or sea.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
7  Aeneas marvels at the mass of building, pastoral huts once of old, marvels at the gateways and clatter of the pavements.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
8  No cities ever received him within house or rampart, nor had his savagery submitted to it; he led his life on the lonely pastoral hills.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
9  We drove over to Fifth Avenue, so warm and soft, almost pastoral, on the summer Sunday afternoon that I wouldn't have been surprised to see a great flock of white sheep turn the corner.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
10  When he drove off he waved to Bea; and Carol, lonely at the window above, was envious of their pastoral.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
11  The Negro church has done much to stop this practice, and now most marriage ceremonies are performed by the pastors.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
12  Three decades ago, Dr. Westlake, Julius Flickerbaugh the lawyer, Merriman Peedy the Congregational pastor and himself had been the arbiters.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
13  The pastor's wife decided, "Why, you've caught my very thoughts, Mrs. Kennicott."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
14  At the front door she saw Vida Sherwin, Maud Dyer, and Mrs. Zitterel, wife of the Baptist pastor.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
15  Carol was ashamed to have this spy from the Great World hear the pastor's maundering.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
Example Sentence:
1  A priest's pastoral duties include helping the poor and sick.
2  Many churches provide excellent pastoral counselling.
3  In these stories of pastoral life, we find an understanding of the daily tasks of country folk.
4  The studio has teamed up with a specialist marketing firm with the aim of encouraging pastors to utilise Zack Snyder's comic book reboot in sermons.
5  The authorities were deaf to the pastor's any remonstrance about the lack of police protection in the area.