Harboured is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Harboured meaning
- Having a harbour
- sheltered
Using Harboured
- The main meaning on this page is: Having a harbour | sheltered
- In the example corpus, harboured often appears in combinations such as: long harboured, and harboured, harboured ambitions.
Context around Harboured
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 13 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Harboured
- In this selection, "harboured" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, long, believed, hobbs, ambitions, discriminatory and suspicions stand out and add context to how "harboured" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 7 and harboured ambitions of and citizens being harboured on church. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "harboured" sits close to words such as abbeys, abdur and absconded, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with harboured
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Though enthusiastic about the Baroque—despite some minor quibbles—Bonnefoy harboured a marked distaste for Mannerism. (16 words)
Bolt, 31, retired from sprinting last year but has long harboured ambitions of a career in football. (17 words)
Authorities said they found pro-Russian literature and Russian citizens being harboured on church premises, something the UOC denied. (19 words)
Whatever doubts he may have harboured on entering Australia — and his heart was pounding as he approached the Adelaide customs officers he said — were dispelled by rapturous crowds each time he set foot on an Adelaide court. (37 words)
If Frum harboured hunger pangs, wanting to bite the hand that fed him and expand on his earlier project of examining the fault lines within the conservative movement, he hid them, at least for a few years. (37 words)
Forgasz noted that while older generations within the Jewish community may have harboured suspicions towards Christians due to historical events such as the Holocaust, these attitudes are less prevalent among younger generations. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
After suffering numerous indignities, Ms Aston developed a deep distrust of doctors who she believed harboured discriminatory beliefs towards the EDS community, friends say.
Anthony, an electrician by trade, had long harboured ambitions to get hold of a pub of his own and make it a success.
Authorities said they found pro-Russian literature and Russian citizens being harboured on church premises, something the UOC denied.
Forgasz noted that while older generations within the Jewish community may have harboured suspicions towards Christians due to historical events such as the Holocaust, these attitudes are less prevalent among younger generations.
Having reduced their opponents to 182-7 and harboured ambitions of dismissing them cheaply, the home side were made to suffer as Worcestershire’s last three wickets realised a further 244 runs.
Whatever doubts he may have harboured on entering Australia — and his heart was pounding as he approached the Adelaide customs officers he said — were dispelled by rapturous crowds each time he set foot on an Adelaide court.
An astonishing feat of agricultural innovation, Hobbs harboured hopes his cattle ranch inspire others across the Highlands and around Britain, transforming the landscape and agricultural sector.
The public prosecutor had sought an extension of the police custody to find out "who all harboured him (when he went missing after the accident), he hasn't talked about it".
Visit Bath describes the tour as a journey through the places where the author lived, wrote, and harboured her dark secrets.
But some of these groups harboured jihadists and extremists, which bolstered Bashar al-Assad’s claims to be fighting terrorists and divided the resistance.
He harboured a lot of pent-up resentment, not only towards the constraints of the institution itself, but also towards his family for the way his mother had been treated.
If Frum harboured hunger pangs, wanting to bite the hand that fed him and expand on his earlier project of examining the fault lines within the conservative movement, he hid them, at least for a few years.
Now, I have never harboured a fantasy of marrying in a princess costume, but I must say, I am quite taken with this little detail.
This article makes a lot of sense and confirms some of my long harboured doubts about the whole issue of Covid-19.
The company had harboured visions of becoming a leading private-equity firm and bought Apollo along with two other businesses.
Those close to him say that he always harboured fears that his most devout advocates would one day turn on him.
Though enthusiastic about the Baroque—despite some minor quibbles—Bonnefoy harboured a marked distaste for Mannerism.
As we left the inauguration ceremony that day, I doubt if anyone of us harboured the illusion that what lay ahead was a glamour ride.
Bolt, 31, retired from sprinting last year but has long harboured ambitions of a career in football.
He had run into Amidu multiple times in previous years and harboured some admiration for him and his methods, but the issue with the missing paper never came up.
Common combinations with harboured
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- long harboured 4×
- and harboured 4×
- harboured ambitions 3×
- have harboured 3×
- harboured by 3×
- harboured on 2×
- had harboured 2×
- harboured the 2×