Like some pigeons

Usage examples of homing.

Moving through the air high spars of a threemaster, her sails brailed up on the crosstrees, homing, upstream, silently moving, a silent ship.

This device had been used only intermittently in recent months because it had been feared that German night fighters were homing in to the Mandrel impulses.

The cyan bolt blew a basin the size of a dinner plate into the rock face on which the Molt was homing.

Cowboy turns his own radar off to discourage homing missiles and navigates on his visual sensors alone, his mind making lightning decisions, neurotransmitters clattering against his headswitches like hail, the interface encompassing the whole flashing universe, the panzer and its systems, the corn thundering under the armored skirts, the blithering chaff, the two hostile privateers burning out of the night.

This will entail preparing adequate runways, homing devices, and possibly fog-clearing gear on the aerodromes, and de-icing and blind-landing equipment, etc.

Shepardsville, following the homing probe subroutine that had pinpointed their culprit.

The use of animals--from homing pigeons to horses--in war was nothing new: thousands of years ago, Greek and Roman soldiers had sent dogs with spiked collars into battle.

A gate between two dovecotes, where homing pigeons made a noisy cloud, led him across a bridge to the Abbey gardens.

As Feth Allmer had predictedand Laj Drai had confirmed, after checking with his tablesthe signals from the planted homing unit were coming from the dark side of the planet.

Midsummer-manifold, each one Voluminous, a labyrinth of life, They keep their greenest musings, and the dim dreams That haunt their leafier privacies, Dissembled, baffling the random gapeseed still With blank full-faces, or the innocent guile Of laughter flickering back from shine to shade, And disappearances of homing birds, And frolicsome freaks Of little boughs that frisk with little boughs.

Killian and Wells had the distinct impression he was shifting mental gears as well, homing in more directly to the issue at hand.

Florida dove and fired first noisemakers to mask his ship, then simulated decoys to attract homing torpedos away from her.

Eventually he found himself homing once again on the rastafarian barbershop.

Hu Shih reluctantly left them, to compose the formal message he must speed to Earth by homing capsule, he knew that they would be able to salvage something from this disaster.

Minutes after she had disappeared the homing SBDs could see small splashes as buoyant pieces broke away from the settling hulk, shot through the surface and fell back.