How to Use home in a Sentence

home

1 of 3 noun
Definition of homenext
Synonyms for homenext
  • They have a second home on the lake.
  • The islands are home to many species of birds.
  • I must have left my notes at home.
  • There's no place like home.
  • Can you find homes for these files in your office?
  • Right now his home is a small apartment.
  • She made a good home for her husband and children.
  • People are concerned about protecting their homes.
  • The victims were on the porch of a home when they were shot.
    — Yvonne Wenger, baltimoresun.com, 10 Aug. 2019
  • And, the recipe is good for all levels of at-home chefs.
    — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes.
    — Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 10 May 2019
  • Hit the floor this Christmas and clean the toilets in the host home.
    — Wilborn P. Nobles Iii, NOLA.com, 25 Dec. 2017
  • Because of this, the home stays warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
    — Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 12 May 2022
  • Hardwood floors flow through the room and are a feature found in much of the home.
    — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 19 June 2022
  • You were raised in a home where you were taught good manners.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 26 Feb. 2023
  • One home set into a hill looked from the facade to have been spared.
    — Philly.com, 5 Nov. 2017
  • Our tester was shocked at the price after testing in her home for a month.
    — Theresa Holland, Peoplemag, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Vergara is no stranger to having a stylish shoot in the comfort of her home.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
  • From home prices to inflation, there was a lot to keep track of this year.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Can’t take a good idea and start a business and can’t buy our first home.
    — Time Staff, Time, 29 June 2019
  • And, there would be more sales if only there were more homes for sale.
    — Ilyce Glink and Samuel Tamkin, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2023
  • The new bar area enhances the home's status as a party house.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Brock, who went from high school to high school, looking for a home.
    — Matthew Vantryon, Indianapolis Star, 18 June 2019
  • If that bet wins, players will take home straight cash.
    — cleveland, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Monday, the crash has left a gaping hole in this home’s fence.
    — Amanda Foster, Wbtv, charlotteobserver, 26 Dec. 2017
  • In the video, Homolya walked up to the neighbor’s home.
    — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Your lease does not change just because the home’s owner does.
    — Gary M. Singer, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 July 2018
  • But the hippo harem lifestyle means that females stay close to home.
    — Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 13 July 2018
  • So Shandling drove the two hours home, then returned the next day.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Bring a typical trash bag from home to pack out your trash.
    — Matt Jancer, WIRED, 19 Nov. 2022
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home

2 of 3 adverb
  • I can't wait to come home.
  • It's great to be back home.
  • He used a hammer to drive the nail home.
  • She is on her way home.
  • She called home to say she would be late for dinner.
  • He's sending money home from a job overseas.
  • Did your favorite films of the year go home with the gold?
    — Vogue, 25 Feb. 2019
  • The residents were not home at the time of the burglary.
    — Emma Colton, Fox News, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Her sister said the children were not home at the time.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 2 May 2022
  • The family was driving home from church at the time of the crash.
    — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 15 July 2019
  • The schools are shut down, the day cares are empty, and the kids are home.
    — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 23 Mar. 2020
  • Williams said of the wreck, which occurred on his way home.
    — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Hunger Games fans just got a new way to bring the world of the movie home with them.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 7 Nov. 2023
  • And of course, go to the beach—this area is home some of the region’s finest.
    — Baz Dreisinger, Forbes, 12 June 2022
  • Students will make two rings to take home and gain the skills to make many more.
    — Arkansas Online, 4 Dec. 2022
  • The man’s mother answered the door and said her son was home.
    — cleveland, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The hunters ran out of gas while bringing home eight seals and a walrus.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2019
  • And then the bear family came home and scared them all away.
    — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Will the king @harrykane bring it home tonight and secure that place in the final?!
    — SI.com, 11 July 2018
  • His daughter, falling asleep in the back seat of the truck, begged to go home.
    — Jacob Roberts, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Canyons Course was the same as playing with his friends back home.
    — Greg Luca, ExpressNews.com, 11 July 2020
  • Hayes walked home, struck by the power of that single word.
    — Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 26 July 2023
  • Workers who are not on track for a green card have to return home.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 8 June 2020
  • Bring soil and containers to bring your new plants home.
    — courant.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • But there’s a baseball headed home with him to prove it.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Some of the companies that called it home are leaving or have left.
    — Rani Molla, Recode, 6 Nov. 2018
  • They were scheduled to fly home the same day as the accident.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The higher seed will be home in each best-of-three series.
    — Joe Noga, cleveland, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Without their jobs, all of them will need to return home.
    — WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Maybe Matthew Stafford should have stayed home this week.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 8 Nov. 2020
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home

3 of 3 verb
  • How can home shoppers find the most bang for their buck?
    — oregonlive, 19 June 2022
  • The winning team takes home their pot at the end of the competition.
    — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • And now, a team of researchers may have homed in on a crucial cache of clues.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2020
  • District 3 has home field in the third round if seeds are equal.
    — James Weber, Cincinnati.com, 29 Oct. 2017
  • In the shade of the trees, the air felt like a wet blanket, and mosquitoes homed in on open flesh.
    — Vanessa Gregory, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2018
  • How far out of Portland will home shoppers go to buy a house?
    — oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2020
  • This produces a bright radar echo called a broadside flash, which is easy to home in on.
    — Abe Dane, Popular Mechanics, 3 Dec. 2020
  • How could home prices continue to tick up in the face of soaring mortgage rates?
    — Fortune, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Be sure to check the trap often and re-home the animals promptly.
    — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 18 May 2021
  • The missile would fly to the target zone then activate its own seeker to home in on a ship.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Just how picky can home sellers be when choosing a buyer?
    — Nneka McGuire, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
  • In the coming weeks, months, and years, researchers will try to home in on what that something is.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Olivia Armstrong singles home a run as Hayden plates two runs in the top of the fifth.
    — Bill Lumpkin Iii, al, 18 May 2021
  • Instead, the president homed in on the Bidens, and the Bidens only.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 8 Feb. 2020
  • They and other researchers homed in on a gene called period.
    — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 2 Oct. 2017
  • How can home prices keep rising after posting such large gains?
    — Fortune, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Hodgkinson also homed in on the gun being found at the home near Antioch.
    — Jim Newton, Lake County News-Sun, 11 June 2019
  • Grant ducked as the gunman, who had spotted and homed in on him, started firing off rounds.
    — Susan Scutti, CNN, 6 Aug. 2019
  • What should home buyers look for in an emerging housing market?
    — David M. Ewalt, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2021
  • For a decade, rock bottom mortgage rates helped home buyers steadily bid up the cost of housing.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Unison teams up with specific lenders that home buyers must work with.
    — Tara Siegel Bernard, New York Times, 1 June 2018
  • The dogs homed in on an apparent campsite where a human may have died and decomposed long ago.
    — National Geographic, 23 July 2019
  • Both groups quickly homed in on the same solution: a defeat device.
    — Roger Parloff, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Will home delivery take a tumble when the pandemic ends and people return to stores in droves?
    — John Dorfman, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • For a decade, rock-bottom mortgage rates helped home buyers steadily bid up the cost of housing.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Evans explores the impact that the Food Timeline had on its users, from podcast hosts to home cooks.
    — Hallel Yadin, Longreads, 24 Mar. 2022
  • So, the challenge was to find a way to train the immune system to home in on proteins in the stalk, Krammer explained.
    — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Ask candidates to complete a brief assignment designed to home in on skills.
    — Jenny Xia Spradling, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
  • So, working with Bosch, Porsche homed in on the rotor instead.
    — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The cells homed their way into her bones and gradually started to produce normal blood.
    — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 15 July 2019

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