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    Use "moorland" in a sentence

    moorland example sentences

    moorland


    1. ‘Andy?’ Ozzie asked, his managerial poise more suited to a conference room than the open moorland


    2. He crossed over a long ridge of moorland skirting the side of a high hill


    3. He then continued to walk north coming to a gorge of moorland that dipped to the valley of a little river, and a mile away in the heather he saw the smoke of several mountain bikes rushing down a hill


    4. Stuart was now in a wide semicircle of moorland, with a brown peaty river running down towards a massive lake as radius, and the high hills forming the northern circumference


    5. With nothing but open moorland visible for leagues, he slowed and carefully selected a short cut to rejoin the track


    6. He had a large horn hanging from his back and was positioned with a good view of the moorland from where Tress had approached, obviously an advance lookout, ready to raise an alarm


    7. There was something about this moorland that was dark and foreboding, he liked the fresh air away up here and he liked being away from London


    8. Choir: On the moorland


    9. The founder of the Market was Hun Moorland


    10. From the moorland rimwards of the wood they watched the battle between the trees and Time, which could only have one ending

    11. He compromised by gazing fixedly into the middle distance, where moorland and forest drifted by and could be contemplated almost casually


    12. The house before me was the ordinary moorland farm, with a more pretentious whitewashed wing added


    13. What chance had I in this moorland house with three desperadoes and their armed servants?


    14. I had a fine prospect of the whole ring of moorland


    15. The house stood almost on the summit of a swell of moorland


    16. But the old man in the moorland house solemnized


    17. There in that pleasant dining-room, with etchings on the walls, and a picture of an old lady in a bib above the mantelpiece, I could see nothing to connect them with the moorland desperadoes


    18. stood before him in the moorland farm, with the pistols


    19. He left his moorland cottage early on Wednesday night and has never been heard of since


    20. what county I have lighted; a north-midland shire, dusk with moorland, ridged with mountain: this I see

    21. They clung to the purple moors behind and around their dwelling—to the hollow vale into which the pebbly bridle-path leading from their gate descended, and which wound between fern-banks first, and then amongst a few of the wildest little pasture-fields that ever bordered a wilderness of heath, or gave sustenance to a flock of grey moorland sheep, with their little mossy-faced lambs:—they clung to this scene, I say, with a perfect enthusiasm of attachment


    22. The wind sighed low in the firs: all was moorland loneliness and midnight hush


    23. 1 Barberry (Berberis vulgaris), found in scrub and dry moorland grows to 3m (9ft), with oval leaves, yellow flowers and fierce thorns in groups of three on its stems


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    Synonyms for "moorland"

    moor moorland

    "moorland" definitions

    open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss