What is "homebound"

Usage examples of "homebound".

Ben and Chryssa were safe now, Val distant a couple of million miles and homebound, homebound.

Ma paid for homebound tutoring for the remainder of the school year, though she swore on a stack of Bibles that no one at St.

By now it was early evening, an hour or so after the homebound rush hour, though traffic was still heavy.

At Victoria he made his way through the homebound commuters and reached the racks of grey metal lockers, locating number 12 at the end nearest the platforms.

But then he asked himself what right had he, a miserable, mortal, homebound failure, to worry about danger.

Harry a part of his community, not just a homebound invalid but a participant in the life of his town.

Only the upper-class women were constrained by their status into ladylike homebound activities.

When school closed at end of day, I tracked the homebound progress of Delbert, Charlie-Charlie, and clan with envious eyes and a divided heart.

The homebound Volcae Tectosages would hold the wealth of that whole migration in Tolosa against the day when all the tribes would return to Gaul, and claim it.

There she refuelled and turned back with an infinitely more vital flock, laden to its limits with fUel, machinery, tools, food and equipment, a rich prey for the U-boats on the homebound passage.

The fast lanes of Interstate 90 are strewn with brown snow turds melted loose from homebound skiers' Broncos.

The fast lanes of Interstate 90 are strewn with brown snow turds melted loose from homebound skiers’.

Homebound workers, Fleur had said, mingling with the pleasure-hunters who also tended to 'change shifts' at rush hours.

It's a new gimmick, intended to promote formlessness, to combat sequentiality, and so on: the target-research gurus have established that this goes down a lot better with the homebound.