home
noun
a house, apartment, or other shelter that is the usual residence of a person, family, or household.
were homing
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past progressiveof home.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Four machines were homing in the shaft from the southeast and the northwest with huge conveyor belts taking the spoil along the length of the tunnel.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2025
“During our week of preparation, we were homing in on physicality, being dominant and we were truly dominant up front,” linebacker Lander Barton said a week after Whittingham called his defensive front seven soft.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2022
“I think we were homing in on Leyendecker because of his ability to stylize, to make characters feel monumental,” he says.
From The Verge ● Sep. 2, 2021
Over the years, hundreds upon hundreds of journal publications reported breast cancer experiments involving MDA-MB-435, as scientists hoped they were homing in on better treatments or even a cure.
From Slate ● Apr. 14, 2017
They were homing birds, exclusively male, that were released into regions where the Capitol's enemies were known to be hiding.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
