Examples of moorland in a Sentence
an area of open moorland
We hiked across the moorlands.
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Above the glacial lake Ullswater, prehistoric cairns and burial mounds dot the high moorland, including the Cockpit Stone Circle, which spans 90 feet.
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Andrea Bussell, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2025
Including the cultivation, rainforest, heather-moorland, alpine desert and the Arctic summit.
—Barbie Porter, Twin Cities, 18 Sep. 2025
On March 31, Prince William’s office released a new film showing the start of the planting on the moorland.
—Simon Perry, People.com, 31 Mar. 2025
The heaths of Britain's moorland in particular, are the setting for several classic works of Gothic literature, including Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, and make for an unexpected baby name source.
—Anna Moeslein, Parents, 22 July 2024
The park is a stretch of thriving green valleys and peat bogs, and close-cropped moorland that attracts shooting parties in the autumn.
—Jo Rodgers, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Feb. 2023
Not nice moorland, with heather and glinting rocks, just dirty-brown moorland.
—Graham Swift, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
On the other side of the A65 lies a stretch of moorland between Beamsley Beacon, where a Lancaster bomber crashed a few months after the end of World War II, killing four of its Canadian air crew, and Round Hill, so bluntly named yet no rounder than any other hill.
—Rose George, The New York Review of Books, 10 Apr. 2020
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Andrea Bussell, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2025
Including the cultivation, rainforest, heather-moorland, alpine desert and the Arctic summit.
—Barbie Porter, Twin Cities, 18 Sep. 2025
On March 31, Prince William’s office released a new film showing the start of the planting on the moorland.
—Simon Perry, People.com, 31 Mar. 2025
The heaths of Britain's moorland in particular, are the setting for several classic works of Gothic literature, including Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, and make for an unexpected baby name source.
—Anna Moeslein, Parents, 22 July 2024
The park is a stretch of thriving green valleys and peat bogs, and close-cropped moorland that attracts shooting parties in the autumn.
—Jo Rodgers, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Feb. 2023
Not nice moorland, with heather and glinting rocks, just dirty-brown moorland.
—Graham Swift, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
On the other side of the A65 lies a stretch of moorland between Beamsley Beacon, where a Lancaster bomber crashed a few months after the end of World War II, killing four of its Canadian air crew, and Round Hill, so bluntly named yet no rounder than any other hill.
—Rose George, The New York Review of Books, 10 Apr. 2020
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“Moorland.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moorland. Accessed 4 Jan. 2026.
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moorland
noun
moor·land
ˈmu̇(ə)r-lənd 
-ˌland
: land consisting of moors
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