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
It was all very well to dilate upon the sugar crop of the island, its trade, its fertility, its harborage.
From Benjamin Franklin by John T. (John Torrey) Morse
Our problem was to meet each one fairly, and yet snatch every moment of respite to slant off toward the harborage inside the breakwaters.
From More Jonathan Papers by Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris
