homeward

[ US /ˈhoʊmwɝd/ ]
[ UK /hˈə‍ʊmwəd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. oriented toward home
    in a homeward direction
    homeward-bound commuters
ADVERB
  1. toward home
    fought his way homeward through the deep snow
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How To Use homeward In A Sentence

  • On Friday, we thought we'd try lunch at the Stag and Hounds in Binfield, but there wasn't a table free, so we'd headed back homewards and went to the poshest place in the village.
  • It is patent that dusk found them weary and worn, plodding and wading silently "homewards," shovel on shoulder, across four or five kilos of desolate mud; falling and tripping over stagnant bodies, masses of tangled wire, bricks and jagged wood-work everywhere impeding progress. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
  • These devices allow one to get detailed and accurate information about a pigeon's homeward track without the necessity of following it.
  • With a sigh, I take a few steps around the deck and look homeward, towards the town.
  • Rain had drizzled down, over west London for most of the match, but afterwards, the rain faded away, and left a fresh, clear edge to the air - so I suggested that we walk around for a while, before heading homewards.
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  • If it's not a heatwave outside, a cardy and/or fleece, and maybe a brolly, are probably a good idea for the homeward journey.
  • We did see part of the battle of the Yalu from the outer walls of Wiju, "he said, but added," From then on the Japanese treatment of the correspondents with the first army grew stricter -- When I left Yokohama homeward bound, all the other correspondents patiently playing the game according to Japanese etiquette, were still publicly dining and privily blaspheming Tokyo. JACK LONDON'S WAR
  • He walked on bravely, looking neither to the right nor left, till he reached the centre and plucked the tallest ear; but as he turned homewards a thousand sweet voices rose behind him, crying in tenderest accents, 'Pluck me too! oh, please pluck me too!' Tales of the Punjab
  • You take them as a matter of course if you are outward bound, but on your call homeward (if you make it) you will look on them as a blessing and a curiosity. Travels in West Africa
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