Sentence examples for great harbours from inspiring English sources

Almost completely landlocked, it is considered one of the world's great harbours and has an area of 770 sq mi (2,000 sq km) with a 120-mi (190-km) circumference.

Mers el-Kebir (Arabic: "Great Harbour") was developed in 1939 56 as a major French naval base.

Caesar sided with Cleopatra and was soon besieged by the Ptolemaic forces by land and sea in the great harbour.

Equally moving is the account of the last battles in the great harbour of Syracuse and of the Athenian retreat.

Cocking a snook at Australia's biggest city, and recalling the days when Rutherglen made another kind of strong wine, the sign on the way into town says, "Sydney may have a great harbour, but Rutherglen has a great port".

In the standalone Ancestral Machines (Orbit, £9.99), Lieutenant Commander Samantha Brock accompanies a wisecracking AI to an exotic megastructure known as the Great Harbour of Benevolent Harmony, a 50,000-year-old macro-engineering project consisting of over 300 worlds travelling through hyper-space like a vast spaceship.

Meanwhile, starship captain and smuggler Bran Pyke and his crew find themselves fighting for their lives on a world in the Great Harbour, also known as the Warcage, where the Gun Lords of Shuskar pit race against race in never-ending wars.

Ryder is great, Harbour grows on you, but "Stranger Things" belongs to the kids, especially the five young ones.

The capital, Maó (formerly known as Mahó*), is on the island's eastern end, perched above one of the world's great natural harbours.

The capital of north-eastern Sri Lanka, and one of the world's great natural harbours, "Trinco" has been fought over for centuries by Portuguese, Dutch, British and now Sri Lankans.Here, it is the hot and dry season.

I saw a great imperial harbour – maybe New York, maybe London, maybe ancient Alexandria or Byzantium, or more precisely all of these rolled into one – with the water's troughs and ridges glinting in the sun, though it was night.