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

Closets and pantries there are none, for they would only furnish good harborage for woods-rats and other vermin.

From Our Southern Highlanders by Kephart, Horace

It was the first convenient harborage for inbound ships to dispose of this dirty deep-sea cargo.

From Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates by Flory, Julia McCune