Sentence examples for a homecomer from inspiring English sources
I am what you might call a "homecomer". Wendell Berry, the Kentucky writer and farmer, uses that word to describe people who have spent some time away, usually to pursue better opportunities in cities, and then choose to return to their rural roots.
The New Yorker, October 13 , 1928P. 17 Helping out the early morning homecomer who had to sign for a telegram.
By Harold Ross The New Yorker, October 13 , 1928P. 17 Helping out the early morning homecomer who had to sign for a telegram.
We have no money to pay for the process and little cultural awareness to support it, but here are the places where a new generation of homecomers -- people who want to go to a place and dig in -- can become the new pioneers, operating on a set of assumptions and aspirations different from those of their ancestors.
For a night of stories based on the theme "Going Home," Ms. Xanders went looking for a wide range of homecomers, from Frank McCourt, the Irish-born writer, to a former prisoner of war to Capt.
Homecomer thought he was perfectly sober until clerk suggested that he could make a mark instead of signing his name.
Now infirm, Argos recognises the wanderer, but the disguised homecomer cannot acknowledge him.
Karate world champion and Essex homecomer Anne-Marie channels Adele at Fabric during her all-too-short Street Stage set on Saturday.
When the homecomer frets that no one in Maycomb remembers the "juvenile desperado, hellraiser extraordinary" that she was, it is tempting to yell back that we have never forgotten her, although wincing when she approvingly notes the smell of "clean Negro", with all that term implies.
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