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How to use homing instinct in a sentence

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The latest animal to display an extraordinary homing instinct is Basil, the Welsh cob.
Nobody knows for certain why birds react in this way and why they have a homing instinct.
The relocation operation relies on the birds' excellent natural homing instinct, which compels them to return to the site where they hatched.
Over generations of grazing on the same land the flock has developed a homing instinct, which means that they do not stray from their pastures.
Over generations of grazing on the same land, the flock has developed a homing instinct, which means that they do not stray from their pastures.
On the edges of the old city a few foxes lope, a few late drinkers follow their homing instinct.
All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.
Drawn by some boyhood homing instinct, he instinctively laid his finger on the ad for a twenty-five-cent whoopee cushion.
In addition, the bears' homing instinct renders any relocation of less than 100 miles futile.
The homing instinct of stem cells has been exploited in animal experiments to deliver a 'suicide gene' to tumour cells, leaving normal tissues unharmed.
The pigeons' homing instinct must be cultivated.
Richter has a homing instinct for rifts of many kinds.
It was like a homing instinct in those who had it.
Mice would need to be released some distance away, as mice have a strong homing instinct.
Pythons seem to have a tremendous homing instinct, he added.
Now, God also gave this homing instinct to human beings.
The homing instinct is the inherent ability of an animal to navigate towards an original location which is either a home territory, or a breeding area.
Examples from Classical Literature
The homing instinct of the pigeon has also been ascribed to the same faculty.
As said before, the homing instinct of horses and cattle is very remarkable.
Please don't feed me with nonsense about a homing instinct because you haven't got one if you go walkabout for three decades.
This homing instinct seems to be very strong in the terrier.
The homing instinct, Irvine called it, after he had expended the selling price of a sonnet in getting the animal back from northern Oregon.
He set his face down this toward Madison Square, for the homing instinct survives even when the home is a park bench.
Perry said it must be some sort of homing instinct such as is possessed by certain breeds of earthly pigeons.
And the tendency of middle-aged Pittsburgh millionaires to marry chorus-girls is notoriously like the homing instinct of pigeons.
Pigeons have an amazing homing instinct, and they don't just fly home, they race home.
As the cold began to bite, an overwhelming homing instinct surged through him.
The small ray of Frome's lantern was soon lost in this smothering medium, in which even his sense of direction, and the bay's homing instinct, finally ceased to serve us.
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