Examples of “moor” in a Sentence

noun A wide stretch of open, often hilly land covered in heather and rough grass, with poor, boggy soil.

• Purple heather covered the moor as far as we could see.
• They hiked across the misty moor for hours.
• Sheep grazed on the windswept moor.

verb To tie up and fix a boat in place with ropes, chains, or an anchor.

• Before the storm arrived, the sailors moored their boat in a sheltered cove.
• They moored the yacht at the marina overnight.
• The fishing boat was moored to the old wooden jetty.