How to Use moor in a Sentence

moor

1 of 2 noun
Definition of moornext
Synonyms for moornext
  • She was dressed as the Grimpen Mire, not a Scottish moor.
    — New York Times, 25 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Every floating Biloxi casino ripped from its moors and crashed, thrown upcoast, destroying everything in the way.
    — Alice Anderson, Good Housekeeping, 16 Aug. 2017
  • 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, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Users can use street view to explore the Yongneup high moor, boasting wide grassy fields filled with wetland plants, or the Hantan River Gorge, with turquoise water snaking between high granite walls.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
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moor

2 of 2 verb
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Why weren’t any of the neighboring boats moored nearby woken and searched?
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Boats the size of the Magestic must moor more than one hundred yards out, as a flotilla of dinghies, rowed from the stern with a single oar, ferry goods to the dock.
    — Rowan Moore Gerety, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • There is a sandy beach and a calm harbor where desperate sailors sometimes moor.
    — Laura Collins-Hughes, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • About 700 people aboard the Diamond Princess became infected while the ship was moored for weeks off the coast of Japan.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Bastien et Bastienne—was performed on two barges moored on Lake Constance.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 15 July 2019
  • Three years ago, activists also turned to their kayaks to protest an oil-drilling rig that was moored in Seattle but was to be used off the coast of Alaska.
    — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 18 Mar. 2018
  • The ship moored at the dock, the Doris T, was almost full, but the Miss Lilie 1, which occupied the terminal’s second berth, was loading at the same time.
    — Rowan Moore Gerety, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • The fighting appeared to follow a riverboat's attempt to dock where a pontoon boat was moored.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The city settled on a compromise, prohibiting ships from mooring at the two docks the city controls.
    — Frances Robles, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The new high school graduate waited, his soft grey eyes fixed on the City of New York, moored and heavily guarded on the Hoboken piers.
    — Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Longreads, 16 Jan. 2018
  • On both sides were horse paddocks, houses with blooming gardens, boats moored along the inlets.
    — New York Times, 12 Nov. 2019
  • An 82-year-old man fell into the sea while mooring vessels in Hiroshima.
    — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Most recently, it’s spent two and a half decades moored in Philadelphia, lately in the care of a foundation that’s been trying hard to find someone to restore and find a use for it.
    — Brittany Murray/medianews Group/long Beach Press-Telegram Via Getty Images, Curbed, 19 Jan. 2024

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