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Meanings of homing pigeon in English
Portuguese
pombo-correio A variety of domestic pigeon (Columba livia domestica) selectively bred to find its way home over extremely long distances.
Usage of homing pigeon in English
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But the feeling inside me was like that of a homing pigeon.
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Because bone marrow, like a homing pigeon, somehow knows where to go.
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And Ginger, beaming happily, swooped on Sally's table like a homing pigeon.
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She'd come back to him like some sort of goddamn homing pigeon.
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She was trying to teach it to be a homing pigeon.
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Lord Emsworth's mind shot back to Blandings like a homing pigeon.
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Straight as a homing pigeon he went to his goal.
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My boy, this well-trained homing pigeon will, indeed, be valuable to the War Department.
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All the while he was roaring on, his machine seemingly feeling like a homing pigeon.
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And so the young man had gone to his father, straight as a homing pigeon.
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Juliet went into her open arms as straight as a homing pigeon to its nest.
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I'll never forget that mechanical homing pigeon you constructed.
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Remember that his first day in San Juan he went to Galloway like a homing pigeon.
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Back into the cage, like a homing pigeon!
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We have a valuable addition to our air messengers in the shape of this well-trained homing pigeon.
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Dunbar believed the creature would be used as a messenger in the manner of a homing pigeon.