harborage
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Origin of 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
The young Zane had gratified a wilful passion to penetrate the residence of his father, and look at its inmates and the situation from safe harborage there.
From Bohemian Days Three American Tales by Townsend, George Alfred
No wonder then that the celebrated outlaw, Peter Retief, had chosen it for his haunt and the harborage of his ill-gotten stock.
From The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest by Cullum, Ridgwell
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