Sentence examples for harbor cities from inspiring English sources

STONE HARBOR "Cities and Seas and In Between," group show.

THERE is something strikingly eccentric about Europe's historic harbor cities.  Perhaps it's the centuries of trade and exposure to objects and people from afar; maybe there's something in the water.

"We show that, wherever there were good conditions for gerbils and fleas in Central Asia, some years later the bacteria shows up in harbor cities in Europe and then spreads across the continent," one of the authors of the study, Nils Christian Stenseth, a biologist at the University of Oslo, told the BBC.

The Phibian is part of a great tradition of earth and water cruisers like the DUKW of World War II, a General Motors-built transport re-engineered for beach landings, now commonly spotted ferrying tourists in harbor cities like Baltimore and Boston.

We still don't know much about Fu Nan — there's a lot of basic archaeological catch-up work to be done — though we do know that its people established harbor cities and experienced a wave of influence from India, which led to adopting Buddhism and Hinduism and their intertwined traditions of religious sculpture.

Sometimes, when I arrive in New York or Shanghai — old harbor cities that have drawn generations of immigrants — I find myself reimagining my grandfathers' arrival at the docks in Singapore, an unknown place whose sights and sounds must have been inexplicably comforting nonetheless.

For 2 euros you can see the frescoed chapels at the Kaisariani Monastery (30-210-723-6619; 8 a.m. to 3 p.m .. 2 p.m. 13) HARBOR CHIC Athenians used to turn up their noses at Piraeus, the blue-collar harbor city, but scenesters are staking it out again, especially the yacht-lined Mikrolimano harbor.

(Syracuse, a Sicilian harbor city, was an ancient Greek powerhouse).

Today, Antsiranana, an attractive harbor city, was packed with people.

Boston homeboys like Paul Revere begin to look, in their great harbor city, unexpectedly cosmopolitan.

Although Aden was a harbor city, the air held hardly a particle of dampness.