Sentence examples for second homecoming from inspiring English sources

Murphy, who played at Delbarton High School in Morristown, N.J., reveled in his second homecoming.

There were some diminishing returns on his second homecoming fight in Nebraska and he didn't even headline the HBO card where he took Dulorme apart.

Born in Columbia and a graduate of Yale University, Shirky worked as a painter and theatre director before being caught up in the web ("It was a kind of second homecoming") in 1992.

"Manchester" is a film about a man who can never go home and can never recover; for Lonergan, it's a work of recovery and liberation, perhaps a herald of a second homecoming, certainly a tour de force of his own.

Despite blowing a 23-point lead, the Cavaliers battled back to beat the Miami Heat, 102-90, on Tuesday night, getting a small dose of satisfaction against LeBron James, the franchise's biggest star who was making his second homecoming visit to Cleveland since bolting last summer.

Yet the drama of the prodigal daughter's return is soon upstaged by the tragedy of a second homecoming, as Olivia's brother returns from a local hospital with his wife and the lifeless body of their baby (a k a "the bundle"), strangled at birth by an inconveniently positioned umbilical cord.

Do you have recent experiences that you are willing to share about the challenges of that first homecoming?

"My first homecoming was in 1969," he said, referring to his return from Vietnam, where he served as a member of the Navy SEALs.

My colleague Jan Hoffman would like to write about your first homecoming: I'm a Times reporter writing an article about what happens when college freshmen come home for that looonnnggg winter break: parents have become accustomed to the quiet, the neatness, the freedom … and the students are now used to following their own rules.

She had watched intently on Sunday afternoon as Senator John Kerry listened to a newly divorced steelworker, locked out of his factory job for 11 months, haltingly describe how his daughter had told him not to worry -- that her mother and grandmother had "taken care of" her first homecoming dress.

Given that if Yorkshire was a country it would have been 12th in the medal-winners' table, it is hardly surprising it hosted some of the first homecoming celebrations.