Get to know Moor better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like berth or fasten. In Dutch this translates to moor.
Moor in a sentence
Related words
Moor meaning
- 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.)
- A game preserve consisting of moorland.
Synonyms of Moor
Moor vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Moor
- The main meaning on this page is: 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.) | A game preserve consisting of moorland.
- Useful related words include: berth, fasten, fix, secure.
- Possible Dutch translations are: moor.
- In the example corpus, moor often appears in combinations such as: turf moor, the moor, cleator moor.
Context around Moor
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 7 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Moor
- In this selection, "moor" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, turf, cleator, bodmin, wrote, 1948 and 1950 stand out and add context to how "moor" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an enslaved moor and and shaugh moor. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "moor" sits close to words such as behaviours, coke and echoing, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with moor
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Dewsbury Moor Maroons were pushed hard for their win over Saddleworth Rangers. (12 words)
Autumn days come quickly, like the running of a hound on the moor. (13 words)
A 94th minute winner at Turf Moor broke Reading hearts, as Burnley claimed all three points against the Royals. (19 words)
Candidates from Ballyarnett, The Moor, Foyleside, Waterside, Faughan, Sperrin and Derg will find out how they fared over the course of the weekend, and the make-up of the new Council is expected to be confirmed by Saturday or Sunday. (40 words)
Analysing Burnley’s display on attempted to put a positive spin on things by suggesting Vincent Kompany’s men are at least getting closer, having come four minutes away from claiming that long-awaited first win at Turf Moor. (39 words)
Cleator Moor's latest North West Counties Football First Division North defeat against Karl Brown's 17th-placed Runcorn Town, at the Viridor Community Stadium, did nothing to change their fate, with the Celtic already condemned to relegation. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Moor also wrote to City Council members: “We thought you all would at least get to $50,000 entry level,” Moor wrote.
The Outpost, home to Three Hills Brewing: Like Moor, this Northamptonshire brewery wanted in on Bermondsey, but unlike Moor, they brew here too.
Two notable works from the series have previously been sold at auction, ‘Cowles Fish & Chips, Cleator Moor 1948’, and ‘The Broken Shop Window at Cleator Moor, 1950’.
Bodmin Moor became a centre of these sightings with occasional reports of mutilated slain livestock ; the alleged panther -like cats of the same region came to be popularly known as the Beast of Bodmin Moor.
In 1994, the National Park boundaries were changed to include common land at Shaugh Moor and exclude china clay worked land at Lee Moor.
Marston Moor 1644 By the time of the Battle of Marston Moor in July 1644, Cromwell had risen to the rank of Lieutenant General of horse in Manchester's army.
They obtained a 21-year lease in 1830, from the Earl of Morley who owned the land, to work the area between Lee Moor and Shaugh Moor.
A 94th minute winner at Turf Moor broke Reading hearts, as Burnley claimed all three points against the Royals.
About that first dark tableau: Once the lights come up, it reveals a portrait session: Emily, painting her husband, in a pose reminiscent of Velasquez’s portrait of his assistant, an enslaved Moor.
All of this would be in rivalry with in Orchard Square (150m away from John Lewis), on Angel Street, and to a lesser extent the eateries in the Moor Market and the restaurants outside The Light cinema.
Analysing Burnley’s display on attempted to put a positive spin on things by suggesting Vincent Kompany’s men are at least getting closer, having come four minutes away from claiming that long-awaited first win at Turf Moor.
As the trio led the celebrations in the front of the travelling fans at Turf Moor, it was remarkable to note how much has changed at Spurs in such a short space of time.
August 1914, and the wounded are already arriving back at Moor Street after the Battle of Mons - the first major British battle of WW1.
Autumn days come quickly, like the running of a hound on the moor.
Bruno Fernandes got the decisive goal at Turf Moor, beating James Trafford with a superb volley after getting on the end of Jonny Evans’ long pass.
Candidates from Ballyarnett, The Moor, Foyleside, Waterside, Faughan, Sperrin and Derg will find out how they fared over the course of the weekend, and the make-up of the new Council is expected to be confirmed by Saturday or Sunday.
Cleator Moor's latest North West Counties Football First Division North defeat against Karl Brown's 17th-placed Runcorn Town, at the Viridor Community Stadium, did nothing to change their fate, with the Celtic already condemned to relegation.
Crosby's zone will be in place from 3pm tomorrow until 3pm Monday, November 6. The dispersal zone will cover Crosby Village, Alexandra Park, Coronation Park, Ramblers, Northern Club, Moorside Park, Moor Lane, Forefield Lane and Coronation Road.
De Moor was complaining that the influx of asylum-seekers over the past two years in the nation of 11.5 million had filled the shelter centres to near capacity of 33,500.
Dewsbury Moor Maroons were pushed hard for their win over Saddleworth Rangers.
Common combinations with moor
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- turf moor 39×
- the moor 24×
- cleator moor 10×
- moor and 8×
- moor in 7×
- to moor 7×
- moor insights 7×
- moor street 6×
- moor road 6×
- moor which 5×