A coming to or returning home

Usage examples of homecoming.

IN THE HISTORY of the Adams family there was probably no more joyous homecoming than took place in the heat of midmorning on August 18, 1817, when John Quincy, Louisa Catherine, and their three sons came over the hill from Milton in a coach-and-four trailing a cloud of dust.

Lou Calabrese, not Candy Sparks, cheerleading captain and star of every musical Bay Haven Central put on, or Amber Castiglione, homecoming queen and possessor of a professionally done portfolio of modeling headshots.

Not the coming of the grays, not the byrus or the weasels, but four boys who had been hoping to see a picture of the Homecoming Queen with her skirt pulled up, no more than that.

During her freshman and sophomore years at Monrovia High School, Leslie was one of the homecoming princesses.

Caroline Carmichael, before the presidential letter of appreciation and the Bronze Intelligence Star-there was a different sort of homecoming, in a freight hangar at Washington Dulles, and Scottie Sorensen was the only person there.

In the past few weeks I had often imagined my homecoming to Witchwood Hall, but I had never dreamed that it might prove so startling.

I had to yet, wanted to enjoy them a bit, and it was easy, so easy, like this was just another excited homecoming.

There will be no homecoming for you from the battle, and Andromache will never take the glorious armor of Achilles from your hands.

Marie Brasher is the local Homecoming Queen and seems perfectly normal.

May I assume Cheryl Anne was upset because Thud failed to win the game single-handedly and ensure a Homecoming celebration fraught with significance and glistening memories?

The kids were holding a pair of thin foam mattresses, rolled up as if they were too precious to stretch them out on the dewy ground, and they were whispering and giggling, with the park lamps lighting up tattoos from homecoming enactments on the top of their heads.

Their thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a recognition, a remembering, a return and a homecoming to a remote, primordial, an inclusive houschold of the soul, out of which those concepts grew originall: philosophizing is to this extent a kind of atavism of the highest order.

In a fit of guilt-induced fear, he removed two candles from the Shabbat candle box and lowered the level in the Manischewitz bottle in preparation for Saul’s homecoming.

The eagerness, the bittersweet sense of homecoming, that flickered around his calm logic were Christian Brannock's.

Whither, retaining her now wonted pilgrim's weeds, she hied her, and finding that the ladies and gentlemen were all gathered in the Count's palace and on the point of going to table, she tarried not to change her dress, but went up into the hall, bearing her little ones in her arms, and threading her way through the throng to the place where she saw the Count stand, she threw herself at his feet, and sobbing, said to him:—"My lord, thy hapless bride am I, who to ensure thy homecoming and abidance in peace have long time been a wanderer, and now demand of thee observance of the condition whereof word was brought me by the two knights whom I sent to thee.