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单词 homeward-bound
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Definition of homeward-bound in English:

homeward-bound

adjective
  • On the way home.

    the next day we were homeward-bound
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The streets, however, still thronged with tourists as well as with homeward-bound office and shop workers.
    • I waited for ages in Wantage town square for the homeward-bound bus.
    • Unfortunately, it took nearly 48 hours for my bags to catch up with me at my Manhattan hotel, but on boarding the homeward-bound flight the airline gave me £50 for the inconvenience.
    • Luckily my homeward-bound train appeared almost immediately and soon I was in front of the telly, with another glass of wine in my hand, my cat at my side, and watching a video of Billy Connolly - a perfect way in which to round off the day.
    • Manchester holidaymakers on board a homeward-bound flight from Crete staged a revolt after being told the plane was being diverted to London.
    • He is scheduled to make a stop at Novosibirsk in western Siberia on his homeward-bound 10,000-kilometer train journey.
    • When my outbound flight is called, dozens of homeward-bound women irritably unpack their hijabs and put them on.
    • He wasn't allowed to board the homeward-bound plane with the Special Forces soldiers.
    • It's almost a year since I walked across it, whilst I was in New York on the American leg of my homeward-bound trip.
    • And then I had to be off, and thankfully managed to make it back to Paddington in time to get on a homeward-bound train that was just about leave.
    • Posh nosh is on the menu for weary homeward-bound commuters.
    • Today's homeward-bound college grads hope to pay back student loans, put away savings, possibly invest their entry-level earnings, and even begin to make long-term investments.
    • One commuter suffered a heart attack and others fainted and were ill in the heat as their homeward-bound train was brought to a standstill.
    • During my homeward-bound tube journey this evening, my mobile phone beeped into life.
    • It would leave hordes of us homeward-bound travellers stuck on stationary trains or, confused by contradictory loudspeaker announcements, send us scurrying in vain from one empty platform to another.
    • ‘Everyone seems to want to live fast and die young,’ he remarks, observing rowdy homeward-bound teen clubbers jostling their hungover elders in the ticket queue.
    • And passengers, intent on catching homeward-bound planes, often have little time to argue.
    • Apparently, Michael Jackson mania in Oxford increased last night after I'd left to catch my homeward-bound train.
 
 
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