homeward-bound

• “I've commuted between Rosslyn and Tysons Corner for years and am constantly amazed at the rare cooperation among drivers on the homeward-bound leg as the traffic converges onto eastbound Interstate 66 from the Dulles Toll Road extension.”

  The Washington Post: Is bad driver behavior at merge points a result of bad design?

• “In the fall of the year, the W.H. Willis started up the Yukon with two hundred homeward-bound pilgrims on board.”

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• “Her decks were piled high with freight and baggage, and swarmed with a heterogeneous company of Indians, dogs, and dog-mushers, prospectors, traders, and homeward-bound gold - seekers.”

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• “Thousands of foreign troops had left, at that time being homeward-bound Russians, of course.”

  The Huffington Post: David Tereshchuk: Post-war Withdrawal Quandaries Challenge Media Analysis

• “Also important is logging which pathogens humans might be carrying at launch, so that if someone gets sick on the way back from a theoretical future trip to Mars, NASA can quickly determine whether it's a garden-variety human bug or some new kind of Martian flu turning a homeward-bound space vehicle into a "plague ship.”

  The Washington Post: NASA official battles the bugs of space travel

• “The stubborn, reliable muscle of his willpower crumbled, leaving him outraged and a little lost in the wide, wintry land he had trod through and tilled all his life, like a homeward-bound sailor who finds himself upon an unknown sea.”

  Simon & Schuster: GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT

• “A small AAF support unit arrived soon thereafter, anticipating heavy use of the newly won field by homeward-bound bombers.”

  Simon & Schuster: Whirlwind

• “Alexander Mann's homeward-bound hop-pickers, husband and wife, are straight out of Millet compare with the Millet conveniently hung nearby.”

  The Guardian: Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880-1900 – review

• “It went off the homeward-bound flight pattern he'd punched out about ten minutes after he'd taken off after his New Baltimore visit to Karla Maxfield.”

  Fictionaut: Kahen no Ame

• “A stream of recent data has indicated that both skilled and unskilled immigrants from Latin America and elsewhere are homeward-bound due to the U.S. economy.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Many Immigrants Still Till the Land of Opportunity

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