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Example sentences for "homecoming"

Lexicographically close words:
homagium; hombre; hombres; home; homebred; homed; homeland; homelands; homeless; homelessness
  1. The lone quail pipes in the hazel thicket, and far up the road the cow-bell's steady clang tells of the homecoming herd.

  2. Your welcome could make it the most delightful homecoming of my life," he said, looking down at her, "if I dared be sure I was quite welcome to your presence.

  3. Why, then, your homecoming will be none the less joyful for you, good friend.

  4. So we left Norwich, and rode across the moorlands to find the king; and the gladness of homecoming grew on me every day, so that I longed for the state affair to be over, that I might turn my horse's head south and west for my own home.

  5. Conquering heroes on the battlefield and the warmth and enthusiasm over their homecoming are beyond words to describe.

  6. After twenty years I have come back to my own country, and I find that of all my servants, by you two alone is my homecoming desired.

  7. And you are not the only one who is bereaved--many another man besides Odysseus lost the happy day of his homecoming in the war of Troy.

  8. Not long after we returned to Rietvlei--such a happy homecoming as it was!

  9. Finally his warriors broke ranks and this concluded the homecoming of the son of Buno.

  10. Between the day on which it was sent and that appointed for Prue's homecoming there is ample time for an answer to be returned; but none comes.

  11. It was a homecoming both sad and glad, and the week of rain had been well filled with a history of all things joyful and sorrowful which had come to them and theirs, in the years that were gone.

  12. The time of their homecoming was known, and there were plenty of people to see them as they passed down the street.

  13. Of the homecoming and departure of this worshipful student, and how he sought to obtain advancement in the wars Chap.

  14. But I lost all delight in my homecoming when I went to the hill overlooking Glen Doone, and saw that the stone was covered with a mantle.

  15. The satisfaction which he now felt was not lessened when on his homecoming the next day, he learned that Jan of Ruffluck had again put on his working clothes, and gone back to his digging.

  16. It was the first time since her homecoming that she had shed real tears.

  17. Instead, all who waited for the boat went up to him to hear him tell what would happen on the homecoming of the Empress, more especially when she stepped ashore here, at the Borg landing.

  18. All the joy of the homecoming was gone, when the figure arose from the cow and approached the gate, and put the pail of milk down on the platform by the pump.

  19. In the deep of the night, lying on a board in the town where he had enlisted three years ago, all elation and enthusiasm gone out of him, he faced the fact that with the joy of homecoming was mingled the bitter juice of care.

  20. He remembered his tender anticipations of the homecoming with a kind of self-pity and disgust.

  21. The homecoming of these sailor lads, who frequently brought friends with them, was a great joy to the Burnsides, and also to those of the villagers with whom they associated.

  22. At another time she paused in her homecoming to give the victim one long squeeze at the neck.

  23. We once placed some dark red nasturtiums on light yellow paper near the nest, and found that more than one third of the homecoming wasps flew to them and hovered over them before entering.

  24. Subviolaceus, who had watched the homecoming from a respectful distance, now felt that her turn had come, and descending upon the spot began to dig.

  25. This, however, was the first occasion since his homecoming on which he had openly opposed his father, and Samuel Quirk resented it.

  26. For weeks after Denis Quirk's homecoming Kathleen O'Connor was uncertain as to her feeling towards him.

  27. The Apparition--Homecoming of the Storms in August, or the last Quarrel--The Raiment of the Children of Israel.

  28. All the sadness surrounding her homecoming could not keep out the sweet feeling of being back that stole through her senses.

  29. She tried to make the most of all those little things that came into her mind just because this homecoming was so desolate a thing to be left alone with.

  30. This then was the homecoming he had dreamed of in the unfathomable reaches of space.

  31. All the pleasure of his homecoming vanished.

  32. But it is of his homecoming that I have now to tell.

  33. And my homecoming has sent you away when you were tired, and that is why you falter.

  34. Overhead little puffs of pink cloud reflect the last rays of the setting sun, while one by one lights are turned on in the windows of surrounding buildings, indicating the homecoming of some toiler.

  35. Of the sad homecoming to Culzean itself I declare I cannot write at length.

  36. At last, as the afternoon ebbed away, and the hour of sundown and homecoming wore on, his anxiety waxed pitiful.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "homecoming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.