[
US
/ˈmjʊɹ/
]
NOUN
- United States naturalist (born in England) who advocated the creation of national parks (1838-1914)
How To Use Muir In A Sentence
- I became a house model for the great designer Jean Muir and it was a wonderful foundation because she was meticulous.
- Consequently, Muir believes, biotech fish could quickly decimate a fish population by their increased ability to produce damaged young.
- Ben Muirhead mishit it like normal and luckily I was able to react quickest - it's just goal-poacher's instinct!
- Professional Mark Bradley today claimed that his dream of playing in the Open Championship at Muirfield was bunkered by an administrative error.
- Only if ye could compass a harmonious call frae the parish of Skreegh-me-dead, as ye anes had hope of, I trow it wad please him weel; since I hae heard him say, that the root of the matter was mair deeply hafted in that wild muirland parish than in the Canongate of Edinburgh. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
- Above Muir, you'll wend past yawning crevasses along the Cowlitz Glacier, tiptoe over snow bridges on the Ingraham Glacier, and duck past the giant seracs of the Ingraham Icefall.
- But the road's unco wild, and sae mony red-coats about, forby the whigs, that are no muckle better (the young lads o 'them) if they meet a fraim body their lane in the muirs. Old Mortality, Complete
- John Muir envisioned national parks as pristine wilderness, without domesticated animals.
- Trees touch something deep in the soul that naturalist John Muir recognized when he wrote, "The clearest way to the universe is through a forest wilderness.
- From behind they rise in rough, uneven, and heathy declivities, out of the wide muir before mentioned, between Loch Eitive and Loch Awe; but in front they terminate abruptly in the most frightful precipices, which form the whole side of the pass, and descend at one fall into the water which fills its trough. Chronicles of the Canongate