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.
I’ll set your tea out for you and I’ll be home in time to milk the cows.”
A FROG once upon a time came forth from his home in the marsh and proclaimed to all the beasts that he was a learned physician, skilled in the use of drugs and able to heal all diseases.
He had learned that Dantès had been taken to prison, and he had gone to all his friends, and the influential persons of the city; but the report was already in circulation that Dantès was arrested as a Bonapartist agent; and as the most sanguine looked upon any attempt of Napoleon to remount the throne as impossible, he met with nothing but refusal, and had returned home in despair, declaring that the matter was serious and that nothing more could be done.
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