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
Carol would have offered it harborage long before.
From Prudence Says So by Hueston, Ethel
Moreover, the vast roughs of the mountain region offered harborage for outlaws, desperadoes of the border, and here many of them settled and propagated their kind.
From Our Southern Highlanders by Kephart, Horace
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
