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homing

[ US /ˈhoʊmɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /hˈə‍ʊmɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. orienting or directing homeward or to a destination
    the homing instinct
    a homing beacon

How To Use homing In A Sentence

  • While science describes our world through facts and figures, art and literature describes our world in metaphorical ways, by allowing us to see with our hearts what our minds sometimes have trouble fathoming. Comic geek question
  • He uses homing pigeons to carry messages back home.
  • Knowing this neighbourhood as I do, I have sent out boy scouts armed with catapults and homing pigeons to locate and succour your undoubtedly acned messenger, who has, I suspect, been lured into a den serving potent drinks and fevered women who have taken his mind off his job and transferred it to his own gratification. Archive 2007-02-01
  • Trained homing pigeons can find their way over distances as far as 600 miles.
  • Migrating birds and fish have a strong homing instinct.
  • When the ship fired its polaron beam at one mine, others within that defensive sphere reacted to the threat, homing in on the source of the beam and attacking it en masse. Creative Couplings
  • Decoys that can confuse the homing sensor in the interceptor are the Achilles' heel of this system.
  • The arsenal of weapons include homing plasma guns, rockets, proximity grenades, Gattling guns and much more.
  • The Lynx adds considerably to the destroyer's firepower - it can fly at 180 knots, and has its own Sea Skua anti-ship missiles and homing torpedoes.
  • The teams marked drop zones and set up radar homing devices to guide aircraft to there targets.
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