MOORLAND in a Sentence

Learn MOORLAND from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

18 example sentences for MOORLAND, such as:

1. There are two moorland farmers.
2. Here are two moorland farmhouses, High Tor and Foulmire.
3. And they're nice pictures, too, moorland landscapes and that sort of thing.
4. They're all moorland landscapes, I've painted a lot of moorland landscapes.
5. The picture though, was not similar, rather it was exactly the same moorland landscape.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of MOORLAND
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
moorland
 n.  open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  They wandered onward till they reached the nether margin of the heath, where it became marshy and merged in moorland.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues
2  Here are two moorland farmhouses, High Tor and Foulmire.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3. The Problem
3  There are two moorland farmers.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall
4  Now and then we passed a moorland cottage, walled and roofed with stone, with no creeper to break its harsh outline.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall
5  With her perfect figure and elegant dress she was, indeed, a strange apparition upon a lonely moorland path.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
6  A short walk brought us to it, a bleak moorland house, once the farm of some grazier in the old prosperous days, but now put into repair and turned into a modern dwelling.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
7  As I walked back I was overtaken by Dr. Mortimer driving in his dog-cart over a rough moorland track which led from the outlying farmhouse of Foulmire.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
8  The wind itself had ceased and a brilliant, deep blue sky arched high over the moorland.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  Dickon's moorland boots were thick and clumsy and though he tried to walk quietly they made a clumping sound as he walked through the long corridors.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
10  It was because she seemed such a wonderful woman in her nice moorland cottage way that at last she was told about the Magic.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
11  And they're nice pictures, too, moorland landscapes and that sort of thing.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
12  The picture though, was not similar, rather it was exactly the same moorland landscape.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
13  They're all moorland landscapes, I've painted a lot of moorland landscapes.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
14  From the well-known names of these towns I learn in what county I have lighted; a north-midland shire, dusk with moorland, ridged with mountain: this I see.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
15  The wind sighed low in the firs: all was moorland loneliness and midnight hush.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
Example Sentence:
1  I had, by cross-ways and by- paths, once more drawn near the tract of moorland; and now, only a few fields, almost as wild and unproductive as the heath from which they were scarcely reclaimed, lay between me and the dusky hill.