harborage
Example Sentences
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“Because of their construction, sponges provide harborage for any number and variety of microbiological organisms, many of which may be pathogenic,” according to the Food and Drug Administration’s U.S.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022
While rat infestations in car engines are not rare occurrences, researchers are attempting to determine whether they are increasing in areas where rats’ usual food and harborage sites have been disrupted by pandemic distancing efforts.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2020
Here were no coves or harborage or shelter, only steep headlands, rockfallen reefs and crags.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
Whatever she found here—how much of hardship or happiness, of grief or woe—she knew that she had left behind forever the safe harborage of quiet waters in which her life craft had always floated.
From The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North by George Ellis Wolfe
So Phyllis, from the troubled waters of doubt, came at last to safe harborage.
From Mavericks by William MacLeod Raine
