Example Sentences

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Even as tragedy struck in the Trengganu estuary, another refugee drama, that of the harborless freighter Hai Hong, was coming to a gradual, troubled end.

From Time Magazine Archive

An atom-blasted harbor, say on the almost harborless coast of Peru, should be safe after a short time.

From Time Magazine Archive

North of the "heel" of Italy extends an almost harborless coast, where nothing tempted the Greeks to settle.

From Early European History by Webster, Hutton

It blew hard against the shore, which was as dreary and harborless as you can conceive.

From Canoeing in the wilderness by Thoreau, Henry David

Their nearest neighbors were the coast cities of Asia Minor and of the Cyclades, but the western coasts were to them harborless and strange.

From Rambles and Studies in Greece by Mahaffy, J. P.