How to Use moor in a Sentence

moor

1 of 2 noun

• She was dressed as the Grimpen Mire, not a Scottish moor.
  — New York Times, 25 Jan. 2018
• The two went on a hike through the moors, which ended at a waterfall.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 9 Nov. 2023
• Nor to hear the cry of North Atlantic winds, sweeping across moor and mountain.
  — Barbara Mahany, chicagotribune.com, 23 June 2019
• In this surprise-a-minute show, a brilliant azure screen with black crags re-imagines the moor.
  — Hugh Hunter, Philly.com, 25 June 2017
• When bad things go down in Charles Dickens, the scene is set in a forbidding moor.
  — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2021
• Doom waits in the moor’s Grimpen Mire, where a horrified Watson sees a wild pony sucked down into the muck.
  — Eliza McGraw, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2020
• There are few parts of this hotel without a striking view of the moors or environs, and the Wi-Fi worked fine for us.
  — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2018
• 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, 23 July 2023
• Briggs left the music business in the 1970s and willfully vanished from public view to live on the Irish moors.
  — Rachel Syme, New Republic, 3 Nov. 2017
• Also known as peat moss, sphagnum mosses carpet the ground in marshes, moors and peat bogs.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
• Ideal trip: Long drives in the countryside, preferably across moors.
  — John Schwartz, New York Times, 28 May 2018
• Maybe their bloodline spirits crossed, perhaps hundreds of years ago across a highland moor, their prey the red grouse.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Mar. 2020
• Harrogate is 25 miles from the village of Haworth, where the Brontë family lived, and both are within easy reach of both the moors and the dales.
  — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
• Their passion isn’t pretty, but awkward and pasty and explicit: two frantic strangers grappling in the muck of the moors.
  — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
• Many of the microplastic particles found in Lake Tahoe were blue—the same color as ropes used to help moor boats, per the Chronicle.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2023
• The whole team rented a house together in Yorkshire—driving an hour out onto the moors to shoot every day.
  — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2023
• Smith fled and called police, who eventually found Kilbride and Downey’s bodies buried on the moor.
  — Jill Lawless, USA TODAY, 16 May 2017
• Each super-ship would take 48 hours to approach the terminal, moor, transfer cargo, and leave.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 14 Sep. 2018
• 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, 17 Oct. 2019
• 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, 28 June 2019
• 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, 18 Mar. 2017
• And to be sure, Lee was an expert on Yorkshire, hailing from the hauntingly beautiful moors.
  — David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Oct. 2017
• 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, 21 Oct. 2019
• The moors there are very old and ecologically valuable.
  — Thomas Krumenacker, Scientific American, 9 June 2023
• The English moors: Is there a setting more symbolic of isolation and despair?
  — Julia Scheeres, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
• 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, 9 Sep. 2022
• The wild, windswept moors of northern England, where the Brontë sisters lived and set their novels, holds a fabled place in literary history.
  — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
• One measure would create a six-cents-per-pound tax on fish exports and a six-cent-per-foot mooring fee for any vessels that anchor or moor in Alaska harbors.
  — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2022
• Do not miss the much celebrated scene on the moor, when Watson, Henry, and another man negotiate the windy wilds.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• 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, 30 Jan. 2022

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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.
• The Safer is moored off the coast of the western Hodeidah province.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 28 July 2023
• There, the meridian line rules and the Cutty Sark is moored.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Oct. 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
• 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 Hamlin Lake day-use area will be closed to the public and boats will not be allowed to moor.
  — Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2024
• 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
• 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
• Their boat, moored a short walk away, is for short and long excursions.
  — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2018
• It was seized after rough seas forced the crew to moor the ship off Karystos, on the southern coast of the island of Evia.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 20 Apr. 2022
• Israeli troops moored the pier to shore, Cooper said, stressing that there are no U.S. troops on the ground in Gaza.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 7 June 2024
• The Coast Guard reported that the leak had been plugged and the vessel was moored at Nashville Wharf by 1:21 p.m.
  — Carlie Kollath Wells, NOLA.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• 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
• But his interests were not moored to the earth’s surface.
  — George Johnson, SFChronicle.com, 29 Feb. 2020
• The couple spent time aboard in Sardinia and also moored in the Thames, a stone’s throw from Tower Bridge.
  — Chrissie McClatchie, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2023
• When the boats were moored, a fiddle was always playing.
  — Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
• The ship is now moored at Changi naval base in Singapore.
  — Anna Fifield, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2017
• 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 Polarstern’s crew moored the ship to a large ice floe in October 2019, and the ship has been moving with it ever since.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 15 Mar. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Boats moored outside the riverfront townhouse that’s on the market.
  — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 27 June 2018
• He was last seen the night before near the vessel, which was moored at Hallmark Fisheries dock.
  — oregonlive, 27 Feb. 2020
• Three ships housing police are moored at Barcelona's dock, and the police are ready to be deployed.
  — Mick Krever, CNN, 28 Sep. 2017
• Why weren’t any of the neighboring boats moored nearby woken and searched?
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2023
• Land prices are a drop in the ocean compared to the yachts moored in Monaco's Port Hercule -- as seen here in this 360-degree photo.
  — Matthew Knight, CNN, 25 May 2017
• Hulks were moored chiefly in the waters of New York Harbor after the city’s occupation by the British in the summer of 1776.
  — A. Roger Ekirch, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2017
• Bruner and several fellow shipmates shouted to a sailor on the ship moored next to the Arizona to toss over some rope.
  — Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024