homing

present participle of home

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for homing
Verb
  • Exclusion is the most effective means of keeping bats from roosting in your house.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Though no condors were roosting near the Grand Canyon area wildfires, the Peregrine Fund evacuated three captive condors in their facilities to a safe location.
    John Leos, AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Callum Turner is shedding some light on his meet-cute with Dua Lipa.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Archaeologists uncovered an extremely rare and massive Roman circular monument in Upper Bavaria, shedding new light on Raetia, an ancient Roman province in southern Germany.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Newsweek’s latest tracking poll shows Mamdani widening his advantage in the New York mayoral race, securing 45 percent support.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Nvidia pioneered the transformation of GPUs, originally designed for gaming, into the workhorses of modern AI systems, securing a dominant position in the field.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Beaver Moon takes its name from early Native American tribes as well as American colonists, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac, when beavers begin sheltering in their lodges after gathering enough food to last the winter.
    John Tufts, IndyStar, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Enduring hunger alongside heavy, unbelievable sounds of explosions, some of the relatives sheltering in our house decided to prepare their bags and head south.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • When camping in an open environment, select a campsite in a valley, ravine, or low region.
    STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Atkinson and his family were walking from their downtown Columbus condo to a restaurant and noticed a throng of Blue Jackets fans camping outside Nationwide Arena to get a jump on tickets the following day.
    Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Beneath the elevated structures lies the operational core of the winery, housing its fermentation and storage facilities.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The latter effort responds to the most acute aspect of California’s shortage — housing the nearly 35% of Californians who are living in poverty or near-poverty, mostly due to housing costs that are among the nation’s highest.
    Dan Walters, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This is a win for you, dear reader, since contemporary, beloved A-listers from Olivia Rodrigo and Selena Gomez to Charli XCX and Gigi Hadid are bestowing upon all of us inspiration on the exact Ugg styles to shop and how to properly fuse each one with today’s top fashion trends.
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2025
  • After decades of obdurately refusing to entertain the idea of bestowing its computers with touch screens, rumor has it that Apple might finally offer this capability.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Passengers boarding the Queen Elizabeth cruise ship in Miami first saw the bellhops, standing stiffly and wearing formal English uniforms.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
  • In the Pennsylvania incident, a Delta flight that was boarding at the time of the incident was searched out of an abundance of caution, the airline confirmed to Fox News Digital.
    Ashley J. DiMella , Greg Norman, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2025
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“Homing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homing. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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