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• A wood beyond this moor was viewed as a border area in the seventeenth century.From the entry wood
• Two ro-ros are moored in the bay.From the entry ro-ro
• We have to moor up for the night.From the entry moor up
• All the fleet was moored up in harbour.From the entry moor up
• She barely came to church, holed hersen up in that house and roamed moors alone every night!2013, Karen Perkins, Thores-Cross. From the entry hersen
• You could see it then, the moor crowded with Marymass revellers, the town's inhabitants.2010, Andrew O'Hagan, Be Near Me, page 201. From the entry Marymass
• Birders come here to look for Finch's francolin, Congo moor chat and black- chinned weaver, among others.2003, Sophie Warne, Gabon, São Tomé and Príncipe, page 30. From the entry megatick
• The stardock is moored to the bottom but not attached to the shore.2002, Capt. Rick Rhodes, Cruising Guide from Lake Michigan to Kentucky Lake: The Heartland Rivers Route. From the entry stardock
• I know the barracks at the training camp out on the moors.1996, Erich Maria Remarque, translated by Brian Murdoch, All Quiet on the Western Front, page 129. From the entry barrack
• It is the large brown bonxies that heckle me as I pass across the high moor and approach the sheep gate.2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 102. From the entry heckle
• Boats are moored to take shelter in waters off Sansha town in Xiapu county in southeastern China's Fujian province on Monday.2020 August 4, “Typhoon Hagupit hits east China and heads towards Shanghai”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 04…. From the entry Sansha
• Wave direction and frequency (period) are two factors that influence the effect of waves on a moored ship.2015, Duncan Bruce, Tanker Jetty Safety – Management of the Ship/Shore Interface (1st 2015 ed; second ed. January 2022), 1st edition…. From the entry head-on
• You are the sun at Noon, that golds the barley, and pulls the bee to the ling on the moor.2011, Harry Nicholson, Tom Fleck, page 250. From the entry gold
• We moored at Kuan-tzu Mouth,⁶⁷ which is between the two cities of Sung-tzu and Chih-chiang (modern Chih-chiang Hsien, Hupeh).1981, Lu Yu, translated by Chun-shu Chang and Joan Smythe, South China in the Twelfth Century: A Translation of Lu Yu's Travel Diaries…. From the entry hsien
• Moored water's (root of Nu's) ashcolored clouds.1977, Isthmus - Volume 6, page 37. From the entry ashcolored
• Covenanters too met often on our moss-hagged moors.1956, Scotland's Magazine, volume 52, page 39. From the entry hag
• By it were moored many boats and barges.1954, JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring. From the entry hythe
• The railway builders chose a different route across the moor from the road - we are completely on our own up here.2023 November 29, Paul Clifton, “West is best in the Highlands”, in RAIL, number 997, page 39. From the entry climb
• On this side there were no overlooking buildings and the narrow boats moored on either side of the canal were silent, unsmoking, uninhabited.2016, Robert Wilson, Stealing People. From the entry unsmoking
• A boat was moored up at one: the fairy-lit waterline cabins looked impossibly cosy, the pigtailed daughter PlayStationing on the bridge painfully evocative.2001, Tim Moore, Continental Drifter: Taking the Low Road with the First Grand Tourist, London: Abacus, →ISBN, page 296. From the entry PlayStation
• Fifteen minutes later, the boat sailed to Mazu's Beigan to moor at (Huaikaicun) pier, and was again fired at by the defense troops.1994 March 28 [1994 March 18], Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS), quotee, “ARATS Writes SEF on Fishing Boat…. From the entry Beigan
• Graceful old houses stand by the edge of the Great Ouse and gaze down at the houseboats, skiffs and motor-cruisers that moor there.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications, page 223, about Hemingford Grey. From the entry houseboat
• Canniest riever on moss and moor!1977, Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs. From the entry tod
• The fair, which is on view till Sunday, is now reachably moored in Manhattan, a block or so from the Hudson, at the Shed on West 30th Street.2023 May 18, Holland Cotter, “At Frieze New York 2023, One-Person Shows That Shine”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry reachably
• Take the time when Billy Jackson, Squire Ferris's gamekeeper saw Ira on his way home from the moors and guessed he had some snickled hares in his knapsack.2007, John Waddington-Feather, Ira and the Cycling Club Lion and Other Short Stories, →ISBN, page 52. From the entry snickled
• In the evening they moored their punts to the river bank, and at the water’s edge the fishermen made their supper in bogrács (cooking pans) over an open fire.1969, Hungarian Foreign Trade, volumes 20–21, Budapest: Hungarian Chamber of Commerce, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry bogrács
• Moreover, at any season there is a difference between down grass and mountain grass, between sea grass and valley grass, between moor grass and wood grass.1916 February 7, “The Greatest Miracle”, in Hawera & Normanby Star, New Zealand, retrieved 12 Aug 2011, page 2. From the entry dissemblance
• Implicit in the presumption operable here is the standard to which the operator is held: prudently navigated vessels do not allide with wharfs or moored vessels or aids to navigation.1984 "United States. National Transportation Safety Board Decisions Volume IV: Enforcement Decisions in Aviation and Marine Cases. January…. From the entry allision
• Adverse weather conditions in the North Sea affect the tankers' ability to stay moored to the SPM and their ability to remoor, and are the major cause of offloading downtime.1980, European Offshore Petroleum Conference & Exhibition, Proceedings - Part 2, page 33. From the entry remoor

Meaning of moor

1. noun An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. (Compare bog, peatland, marsh, swamp, fen.).
2. noun A game preserve consisting of moorland.
3. verb To cast anchor or become fastened.

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Questions about moor in a sentence

How do you use moor in a sentence?

Moor is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.”

What is a short sentence with moor?

“Canniest riever on moss and moor!”

What does moor mean?

Moor means an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. (Compare bog, peatland, marsh, swamp, fen.).