harbour
usage note For harbour
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How to use harbour in a sentence
From their first weeks of life, harbour seals can change the tone of their voice to make themselves heard.
Baby seals sing bass notes when they want attention | Philip Kiefer | November 2, 2021 | Popular-ScienceA harbour seal named Hoover was found and raised by a Maine fisherman, and spent his adult years in an aquarium hollering at visitors in a thick New England accent.
Baby seals sing bass notes when they want attention | Philip Kiefer | November 2, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThey include “The Goldfish Pool at Chartwell” painted in 1932 and “The harbour, Cannes,” painted circa 1933.
Churchill’s Secret Treasures for Sale: A British PM’s Life on the Auction Block | Tom Teodorczuk | December 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAfter the race the Duke and Duchess had a thrilling, bouncy ride across the harbour in an amphibious vehicle.
Once I told him how much I admired his masterful description of Sydney harbour in his book The Fatal Shore.
Remembering Critic Robert Hughes: A Torrent of Brilliant Words | James Fox | August 7, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
I took the last water taxi running from Eleuthera to harbour Island.
Subig is a fine natural harbour, but with precipitous shores just as Nature has made it.
The Philippine Islands | John ForemanForeign families of neutral nationality sought more tranquil asylum far beyond the suburbs or on ships lying in the harbour.
The Philippine Islands | John ForemanThe submarine E.14 sailed into harbour after a series of hair-raising adventures in the Sea of Marmora.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonThere is no protection there for the ships against submarines except Enos harbour and Enos is only one fathom deep.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonOn such occasions continual salutes are fired from the imperial ships, and sometimes from others in the harbour.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida Pfeiffer
British Dictionary definitions for harbour
US harbor
/ (ˈhɑːbə) /
a sheltered port
a place of refuge or safety
(tr) to give shelter to: to harbour a criminal
(tr) to maintain secretly: to harbour a grudge
to shelter (a vessel) in a harbour or (of a vessel) to seek shelter
Origin of harbour
1Derived forms of harbour
- harbourer or US harborer, noun
- harbourless or US harborless, adjective
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