Usage of "homing pigeon"

portuguès

Pigeon trained to return home.

A variety of domestic pigeon (Columba livia domestica) selectively bred to find its way home over extremely long distances.

Ús de homing pigeon en anglès

But the feeling inside me was like that of a homing pigeon. 
 A colossal failure of common sense: the inside story of the coll... 

Because bone marrow, like a homing pigeon, somehow knows where to go. 
 Fireflies 

And Ginger, beaming happily, swooped on Sally's table like a homing pigeon. 
 The Adventures of Sally 

She'd come back to him like some sort of goddamn homing pigeon. 
 Shadowlight 

She was trying to teach it to be a homing pigeon. 
 Son of a witch: volume two in the wicked years 

Lord Emsworth's mind shot back to Blandings like a homing pigeon. 
 Something New 

Straight as a homing pigeon he went to his goal. 
 A Man's Woman 

My boy, this well-trained homing pigeon will, indeed, be valuable to the War Department. 
 Chico: the Story of a Homing Pigeon 

All the while he was roaring on, his machine seemingly feeling like a homing pigeon. 
 The Brighton Boys with the Flying Corps 

And so the young man had gone to his father, straight as a homing pigeon. 
 Queed: A Novel 

Juliet went into her open arms as straight as a homing pigeon to its nest. 
 Old Rose and Silver 

I'll never forget that mechanical homing pigeon you constructed. 
 The Delegate from Venus 

Remember that his first day in San Juan he went to Galloway like a homing pigeon. 
 The Bells of San Juan 

Back into the cage, like a homing pigeon! 
 The Adventures of Kathlyn 

We have a valuable addition to our air messengers in the shape of this well-trained homing pigeon. 
 Chico: the Story of a Homing Pigeon 

Dunbar believed the creature would be used as a messenger in the manner of a homing pigeon. 
 Serena 

homing

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Significats de homing pigeon en anglès