Example sentences for: moors

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

  • In a.d. 711, the Moors brought powerful armies from North Africa and launched a devastating attack on the Iberian peninsula, conquering much of what would become Spain and Portugal.

  • The Moors were relatively tolerant rulers who taxed non-believers rather than trying to convert them.

  • The defeated Moors are forgiven and become Christians in the last scene.

  • Two years later, Moors fleeing from the newly vanquished Sevilla swelled the population, which had already been augmented by refugees from Córdoba.

  • The Moors —the source of cheap labour and vital agricultural know-how—were given the same alternative in 1502.


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