How to Use moor in a Sentence

moor

1 of 2 noun

• Out on the wily, windy moors, a new box office queen was crowned!
  — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Feb. 2026
• This is an album of top-drawer moors-core.
  — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2026
• As do the moors that stretch behind the parsonage.
  — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2026
• As do the moors that stretch behind the parsonage.
  — Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
• But then, yeah, there’s the tweed jacket, elbow patches, the cabin on the moors.
  — Longreads, 26 May 2026
• The boy who walked the moors freely and called the wild things to him, who spoke to animals and coaxed life out of the cold ground.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026
• Six audibly groans, like the cyhyraeth echoing on the moors.
  — Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
• Catherine has pale blond hair, a love for the color red, and a habit of sprinting across the moors with wild abandon.
  — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
• Visiting boats moor in the bay but keep to the far side, close enough to admire and distant enough to ignore.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Feb. 2026
• Meanwhile, the windswept moors feel like something out of a classic thriller, forbidding and alluring at once.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026
• In the original, Cathy and Heathcliff, shockingly, don't get it on all over the moors.
  — Meg Walters, Glamour, 16 Feb. 2026
• Neil Hagdorn heard the cracking of the land, the rush of water as if a landslide were spilling down from the treeless moor hills to the east.
  — Literary Hub, 9 July 2026
• Nelly heads outside to the moors, where Heathcliff is waiting for an update, and delivers the bad news.
  — Meg Walters, Glamour, 16 Feb. 2026
• Rather than scrolling, people are reading of the mist that obscures Yorkshire moors and its inhabitants’ judgments.
  — Hannah Benson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
• The pair become inseparable, frolicking together on the moors and putting up with Cathy's abusive dad.
  — Meg Walters, Glamour, 16 Feb. 2026
• Everything about this verdant, bucolic space is antithetical to the fog, fire, and wide-open, sprawling moors that have so far dominated the movie.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 26 June 2026
• There, ladies and gentlemen rode the moors, shot pigeons, and did other wildly romantic activities for an imaginative eleven-year-old.
  — Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 21 Apr. 2026
• But unlike Bridgerton-core, the trend this time around felt less ditzy, slotting in better with the stormy moors of Yorkshire than cosmopolitan Mayfair.
  — Ari Stark, Footwear News, 17 Feb. 2026
• The Baskerville series will feature an original score, special artwork and immersive sound design to bring the foggy moors of Dartmouth to life.
  — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2026
• In the book, the trope is introduced when Lockwood sleeps in Catherine’s childhood bed and is visited by her girl-ghost wandering the moors, demanding to be let in.
  — Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 13 Feb. 2026
• In one especially heated sequence, Catherine, overcome with lust, dashes off to the moors and pleasures herself ferociously against the rocks.
  — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
• With the siblings and in-laws and various inbred offsprings dismissed, these moors are lonelier than ever, making the action both easier to follow than in the original novel and easier to buy.
  — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
• Burnett described a world that felt ancient and almost fabled—wide, grey Yorkshire moors that stretched endlessly under heavy skies, so different from my own mountains and yet somehow carrying the same wildness.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026
• Think of Cathy wandering the moors in Wuthering Heights, or Kate Sharma from Bridgerton riding her horse in the rain, before [redacted].
  — Jesa Marie Calaor, Allure, 10 Feb. 2026
• The story centers on genius detective Holmes’ investigation into the deaths of members of the Baskerville family, supposedly at the hands of a demonic hound that walks the moors.
  — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2026
• Jennifer Aniston is wading into the wild and windy moors of Wuthering Heights with a little help from Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi.
  — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Feb. 2026
• Cathy’s, um, secretions Fennell’s tendency to shock us only lightly comes (sorry) into full effect when Cathy steals off to the moors to masturbate against a giant rock, overwhelmed by her feelings for Heathcliff.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026
• The camera lingers on dripping egg yolks and squishy, bubbling dough; the protagonist, Cathy Earnshaw (played by Margot Robbie), must wade through pig’s blood on her way to the moors near her home, leaving a trim of viscera on her gorgeously anachronistic dress.
  — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• The camera lingers on dripping egg yolks and squishy, bubbling dough; the protagonist, Cathy Earnshaw (played by Margot Robbie), must wade through pig’s blood on her way to the moors near her home, leaving a trim of viscera on her gorgeously anachronistic dress.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2026
• Major outdoor scenes took place in the sweeping moors of Yorkshire Dales National Park, specifically the unspoiled valley of Swaledale, known for picturesque landscapes comprising rivers, meadows and hills covered in swaths of wildflowers.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 17 Feb. 2026

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.
• Their boat, moored a short walk away, is for short and long excursions.
  — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2018
• Outside were a pair of lounge chairs moored in a few inches of water.
  — Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
• The barge was moored about 25 miles northwest of Ketchikan.
  — CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
• The ship has not returned to service since and has been moored in the harbor.
  — Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• There is a sandy beach and a calm harbor where desperate sailors sometimes moor.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 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
• Why weren’t any of the neighboring boats moored nearby woken and searched?
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2023
• Boats moored outside the riverfront townhouse that’s on the market.
  — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 27 June 2018
• 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
• Soulmate was moored in Aunt Pat's Bay off the island.
  — Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2026
• The Safer is moored off the coast of the western Hodeidah province.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 28 July 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
• Three ships housing police are moored at Barcelona's dock, and the police are ready to be deployed.
  — Mick Krever, CNN, 28 Sep. 2017
• 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, 23 Feb. 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, 23 Feb. 2024
• There’s your smiling face, forever moored in the Before.
  — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2026
• 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
• Bastien et Bastienne—was performed on two barges moored on Lake Constance.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 15 July 2019
• He was last seen the night before near the vessel, which was moored at Hallmark Fisheries dock.
  — oregonlive, 27 Feb. 2020
• 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
• 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 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 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
• Locals, proud of the extravagant yachts moored for the night, like to tell of movie stars who make regular visits.
  — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
• Bruner and several fellow shipmates shouted to a sailor on the ship moored next to the Arizona to toss over some rope.
  — NBC News, 6 Dec. 2019
• The explosives are likely sitting on the seabed or moored to it by a cable and floating under the surface.
  — Ben Finley, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026
• Schoolchildren play around rusted hulls of fishing boats moored in the desert—quiet memorials to what’s been lost.
  — Michael Snyder, Saveur, 11 Mar. 2026