How to Use moor in a Sentence

moor

1 of 2 noun
  • The two went on a hike through the moors, which ended at a waterfall.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 2023-11-09
  • She was dressed as the Grimpen Mire, not a Scottish moor.
    — New York Times, 2018-01-25
  • In this surprise-a-minute show, a brilliant azure screen with black crags re-imagines the moor.
    — Hugh Hunter, Philly.com, 2017-06-25
  • This genre-bending gem proves that lycanthropy is no walk in the park – or on the moors, for that matter.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 2024-09-17
  • Also known as peat moss, sphagnum mosses carpet the ground in marshes, moors and peat bogs.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 2023-10-19
  • Nor to hear the cry of North Atlantic winds, sweeping across moor and mountain.
    — Barbara Mahany, chicagotribune.com, 2019-06-23
  • When bad things go down in Charles Dickens, the scene is set in a forbidding moor.
    — Washington Post, 2021-08-10
  • The sun rises over the loch, the moors (Actually, are those moors?
    — Molly Fitzpatrick, Vulture, 2024-01-12
  • Maybe their bloodline spirits crossed, perhaps hundreds of years ago across a highland moor, their prey the red grouse.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 2020-03-08
  • The moors there are very old and ecologically valuable.
    — Thomas Krumenacker, Scientific American, 2023-06-09
  • In any case, as far as we are concerned, large ships no longer moor in the city center of Amsterdam.
    — Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 2023-07-23
  • Well, Kenny and the hills, moors, forests, cliffs and beaches of Northumberland.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 2025-01-09
  • Each super-ship would take 48 hours to approach the terminal, moor, transfer cargo, and leave.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 2018-09-14
  • Doom waits in the moor’s Grimpen Mire, where a horrified Watson sees a wild pony sucked down into the muck.
    — Eliza McGraw, WSJ, 2020-10-29
  • Smith fled and called police, who eventually found Kilbride and Downey’s bodies buried on the moor.
    — Jill Lawless, USA TODAY, 2017-05-16
  • The paucity of loos on a mountain or moor is unavoidable, and to an extent one becomes inured to pulling down your pants in the countryside.
    — The Economist, 2019-06-28
  • The Context The book is set in the Yorkshire moors in the 19th century.
    — Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 2025-03-26
  • The question is less a sign of curiosity than an expression of skepticism about life and people outside the moor.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 2022-09-09
  • Warm moor mud and cocoa essence are the first application followed by a body brushing and fondue before being wrapped in a warm blanket.
    — Ramsey Qubein, Forbes, 2022-01-30
  • And to be sure, Lee was an expert on Yorkshire, hailing from the hauntingly beautiful moors.
    — David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle, 2017-10-27
  • The head butler will set you up with archery, falconry, riding, hikes on the moors, golf, or salmon fishing (for which Lismore is legendary).
    — Wendy Perrin, Town & Country, 2019-10-17
  • Every floating Biloxi casino ripped from its moors and crashed, thrown upcoast, destroying everything in the way.
    — Alice Anderson, Good Housekeeping, 2017-08-16
  • Since grouses depend on the greenery from the moors to survive, an infestation has the potential to wipe out the population.
    — Katherine J Igoe, Marie Claire, 2019-08-16
  • Briggs left the music business in the 1970s and willfully vanished from public view to live on the Irish moors.
    — Rachel Syme, New Republic, 2017-11-03
  • Evelyn’s father’s farm, adjoining the edge of the moor above the town, had been passed on, without even a discussion, through the male line, to her brother first and then to her brother’s son.
    — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 2019-10-21
  • The film centers on the discovery of a skeleton buried in a moor in rural East Germany, sparking curiosity among the locals.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 2025-01-23
  • This 1,293-square-mile reserve, with its meadows, peat bogs, moors, rivers and forests that are home to butterflies, otters and birds, looks like a location out of a fairy tale.
    — Catherine Garcia, theweek, 2024-01-25
  • Or the plays shifts from a riff on Heather (the name of Roland’s sister) to a mention of heather, the flora that thrives on countryside moors and flavors Roland’s artisanal honey.
    — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 2017-03-18
  • Note that Qualcomm is an advisory client of my company, Moor Insights & Strategy.
    — Patrick Moorhead, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Anshel Sag, an analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, is also frustrated by the proclamations that VR is struggling.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Jan. 2017

moor

2 of 2 verb
  • We need to find a place to moor for the night.
  • The boat was moored alongside the dock.
  • We found a harbor and moored the boat there for the night.
  • Their boat, moored a short walk away, is for short and long excursions.
    — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2018
  • Outside were a pair of lounge chairs moored in a few inches of water.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The barge was moored about 25 miles northwest of Ketchikan.
    — CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The ship has not returned to service since and has been moored in the harbor.
    — Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • There is a sandy beach and a calm harbor where desperate sailors sometimes moor.
    — Laura Collins-Hughes, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Its massive wooden hull, a hundred and forty-four feet long and forty feet wide, was moored at a slip.
    — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Why weren’t any of the neighboring boats moored nearby woken and searched?
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Boats moored outside the riverfront townhouse that’s on the market.
    — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 27 June 2018
  • One afternoon a group of fishermen moored their boat close to shore and lay down, shirts off, on the bow.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Oct. 2018
  • Soulmate was moored in Aunt Pat's Bay off the island.
    — Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2026
  • The Safer is moored off the coast of the western Hodeidah province.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 28 July 2023
  • The law would eliminate one of the last free places to anchor or moor a boat in San Diego.
    — David Garrick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Three ships housing police are moored at Barcelona's dock, and the police are ready to be deployed.
    — Mick Krever, CNN, 28 Sep. 2017
  • The Hamlin Lake day-use area will be closed to the public and boats will not be allowed to moor.
    — Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The Hamlin Lake day-use area will be closed to the public and boats will not be allowed to moor.
    — Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2024
  • There’s your smiling face, forever moored in the Before.
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Leisure boats are moored along the quay of the Yonne River, which is lined with three-star hotels and open-air brasseries.
    — Hugh Garvey, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Bastien et Bastienne—was performed on two barges moored on Lake Constance.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 15 July 2019
  • He was last seen the night before near the vessel, which was moored at Hallmark Fisheries dock.
    — oregonlive, 27 Feb. 2020
  • About 100 boats moored on the east side of the yacht club were moved to other moorings farther north in the small boat basin.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 May 2018
  • At the height of the Haitian Revolution, rebels moored ships along Mona’s coast.
    — Carina Del Valle Schorske, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The men are wearing wool suits and overcoats and standing in front of a ship moored in the port town of Bremerhaven.
    — Mraz, Town & Country, 1 Feb. 2012
  • The fire spared the remainder of the facilities on the ground, including the docks and the yachts moored there.
    — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Locals, proud of the extravagant yachts moored for the night, like to tell of movie stars who make regular visits.
    — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Bruner and several fellow shipmates shouted to a sailor on the ship moored next to the Arizona to toss over some rope.
    — NBC News, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The explosives are likely sitting on the seabed or moored to it by a cable and floating under the surface.
    — Ben Finley, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Schoolchildren play around rusted hulls of fishing boats moored in the desert—quiet memorials to what’s been lost.
    — Michael Snyder, Saveur, 11 Mar. 2026

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