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home in

v. direct onto a point or target, especially by automatic navigational aids [syn: range in, zero in]

Usage examples of "home in".

Harry Harrison was born in Stamford, Connecticut, has made his home in Mexico and in several European countries over the years, and now lives in Ireland.

Was he at home in this ruined city as he had never been among the sammads in the north?

Through the haze, the sound, the booze, everything came to seem normal, appropriate and unusually bright, even the re-entrance of Merimee, clad only in a garland of bay leaves and mounted on the small gray donkey that made its home in one of the back rooms.

When they seemed in good order, Kennedy, who was perfectly at home in the business, packed them away in the car.

He trotted incessantly to and fro between his home in Greek Street, and the Mitchell establishment, always full of business, but always in the highest spirits, giving details of the affair to people who did not even ask him, so proud was he, above all things, of being permitted to accompany his master.

And we sang the soldiers' chorus out of FAUST, and got home in time for supper, after all.

If the sea was below her, she'd be home in another ten minutes, so perhaps she'd have time for that meeting after all.

He lived in California most of his adult life and now makes his home in Oregon with his family.

Druthen managed to convey the impression of being more at home in the Commodore's day cabin than its rightful occupants.

For now he was at home in the darkness and that was an advantage he had that Joe did not possess.

She thought he might call her at home in the evenings from the West Coast.

Alexander was extremely polite and gave my mother another big gin, and chatted sociably to her about the latest films in the Center, and the color that was in vogue, nothing tactless or nasty, such as the cost of food inside, and out, or the SEO riots the month before, in the suburbs, when the sounds of the fires and the police rifles had penetrated even our sealedtight home in SEK.

Alexander was extremely polite and gave my mother another big gin, and chatted sociably to her about the latest films in the Center, and the color that was in vogue, nothing tactless or nasty, such as the cost of food inside, and out, or the SEO riots the month before, in the suburbs, when the sounds of the fires and the police rifles had penetrated even our sealed-tight home in SEK.

At home in his own island, he labours himself like a slave, and makes his people labour like a slave-driver.

She glanced at the clock, and, without addressing any one in particular, she intimated that it was time for self-respecting folks to be at home in bed.