Moorland used in a sentence

Moorland in a sentence as a noun

They are mostly moorland, or steep downland hillsides that are not cropped.

Still in the UK, the moorlands you generally see were once woodlands - apparently that's why they have the distinctive terrain you now see.

Twenty plus years ago I was hiking on the North York Moors in England, which is an area where herds of sheep live wild on the moorland for most of the year.

This appears to provide some nutrition for plants - in the UK peoiple are being urged not to scatter ashes in upland/moorland areas because the minerals are changing the local soil composition and plant ecology [2].