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Example sentences for "harboring"

Lexicographically close words:
harbinger; harbingers; harbor; harborage; harbored; harborow; harbors; harbour; harbourage; harboured
  1. Then they find they have been harboring an illusion as to their supposed idiosyncrasy for hog-meat.

  2. These afford opportunities for introspection and for the harboring of thoughts that lead to relapses into the habit.

  3. And this matter is sometimes of such a nature that it may readily be prevented from harboring itself there.

  4. Yet further inland is another fertile belt, devoted chiefly to the cultivation of upland cotton and harboring from 35 to over 60 per cent.

  5. It has the same east and west series of peninsulas harboring differentiated nationalities, the same northward running recesses, but all on a larger scale.

  6. The islands in the wide stretches of the Lualaba River in the Babemba country were described to Livingstone as harboring a population of marauders and robbers, who felt themselves safe from attack.

  7. I protested to the president against the college harboring such unsettling influences, and urged him to put it out.

  8. They consisted of representatives of the hundreds, usually knights, and villages who testified under oath to all crimes committed in their neighborhood, and indicted those they suspected as responsible and those harboring them.

  9. Other offenses were: housebreaking, ambush, certain kinds of theft, premeditated assault, and harboring outlaws or excommunicants.

  10. House-breaking, harboring outlaws, the royal perquisites of shipwreck and the beasts of the sea which were stranded on the coast were also punishable in the Royal Court.

  11. You had better hold your peace, goodwife; or you may go to prison yourself for harboring such licentious devices of Satan in your house.

  12. It means," Will declared, "that we are suspected by the train robbers of harboring a detective, and suspected by the detective of harboring the convict and his son.

  13. The man who wishes to fly off on the tangent of his own temperament and at the same time enjoy communion on any except the purely material level is harboring incompatible desires.

  14. I have said that the special mark of the half-educated man is his harboring of incompatible desires.

  15. He can't hurt us; but I don't want people to think that we are so fond of him that we can't do without harboring him here.

  16. Exeter gaol, on a charge of "harboring priests, Jesuits, gipsies, and other suspect and traitorous persons.

  17. Other influences were at work betimes, such as the persecution of the Knights Templars and the tragic martyrdom of De Molai, making themselves felt,[69] and Masonry began to be suspected of harboring heresy.

  18. Schmitz was still harboring the hatred against militarism and the government, which had been engendered in him by his own experience in the army.

  19. His kind host was in danger of having his home demolished for harboring a "young Tory", on account of the young man calling his neighbors "rascally rebels.

  20. Harboring a deep resentment against the whites, however, he began to plan his plot some four years before its maturity.

  21. The archbishop of Trondhem had given offence by harboring Swedish refugees, and Magni's simple letter caused the monarch to believe that the two archbishops were, as he expressed it, "in secret negotiation.

  22. The whole province was alive to the fact that it was harboring within its borders the regent's ward.

  23. A man like this, incapable of appreciating the sciences, and harboring enmity to everything not in the Talmud, was bound to exercise an influence prejudicial to knowledge.

  24. When a woman fell under suspicion of being a witch, the minister denounced her from the pulpit, forbade anyone harboring or sheltering her, and exhorted his parishoners to give evidence against her.

  25. I hereby forbid all persons from harboring or trusting her on my account.

  26. It means I am going to put an end to this harboring of guerrillas, if I have to burn every house in this accursed State," thundered Jennison.

  27. He captured two, whom he shot, and burned two or three houses whose owners had been harboring the gang.

  28. The murderers you have been harboring hanged two of my men yesterday, almost at your very door, and no doubt you looked on and approved.

  29. Of all the executions, during this dismal period, the most remarkable were those of Mrs. Gaunt and Lady Lisle, who had been accused of harboring traitors.

  30. His widow was now prosecuted for harboring two rebels the day after the battle of Sedgemoor; and Jefferies pushed on the trial with an unrelenting violence.

  31. Neaera on arriving in New York found Masters's aunt fussily desirous to be useful to her, and yet very anxious at the thought that she was harboring a political runaway.

  32. Why in the world," he asked, "did you object to my harboring Abdullah?

  33. True," said the lawyer, gathering his cards, "and very likely there is no risk in harboring him and his wife.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "harboring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.