home in
verb- To draw close to a destination, especially using radar; to move towards a target.
- To focus or narrow down to something; to find, draw closer or move towards, as by trial and error or a gradual seeking process. · He used the clues to home in on the source of the flames.· We are homing in on a solution.
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He sent us home in his own carriage.
It was the way by which the cows were taken to the back pasture and the wood hauled home in winter.
Anne had gone home in the wonderful, white-frosted winter morning, heavy eyed from loss of sleep, but still talking unweariedly to Matthew as they crossed the long white field and walked under the glittering fairy arch of the Lover’s Lane maples.
Anne accordingly went to bed and slept so long and soundly that it was well on in the white and rosy winter afternoon when she awoke and descended to the kitchen where Marilla, who had arrived home in the meantime, was sitting knitting.
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