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Example sentences for: moor

How can you use “moor” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

He which hath no stomach to this fight, And hideth in the tall grass, like a damn girl, Let him depart; I'll get him a job at CNN, Where mine appalling comments about the dusky Moor And olive-skinned Levantine (and working maidens fair, And--no one's really glommed onto this yet-- My disparagement of those men of right good male fellowship, Who doth hoard original-cast albums of Broadway musicals, If ya know what I mean) serves but to raise my fees on Crossfire . Forsooth, 'tis a rich scam!
But the Gael of Western Ireland and the Scottish Highlands endured an equally pervasive presence in the form of hundreds of square miles of heather covering moor and mountain to almost the complete extinction of other forms of vegetation.
Moor and mountain use the same word in Gaelic ( monadh ) but more to the botanical point is the probable relation of moor to das meer , `the sea.
Westmoreland, the historic county now subsumed into Cumbria, does not have a name meaning west mere land, despite its proximity to the Lake District, but west moor land, i.e., land of the people living to the west of the moors.
In Germany it is called der Trauermantel; in France it is le morio (the moor); the English named it the Camberwell beauty .