How to Use home in a Sentence

home

1 of 3 noun

• 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
• Because of this, the home stays warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
  — Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 12 May 2022
• Hit the floor this Christmas and clean the toilets in the host home.
  — Wilborn P. Nobles Iii, NOLA.com, 25 Dec. 2017
• 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
• Can’t take a good idea and start a business and can’t buy our first home.
  — Time Staff, Time, 29 June 2019
• In the video, Homolya walked up to the neighbor’s home.
  — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 14 Mar. 2022
• From home prices to inflation, there was a lot to keep track of this year.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2022
• Vergara is no stranger to having a stylish shoot in the comfort of her home.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
• Brock, who went from high school to high school, looking for a home.
  — Matthew Vantryon, Indianapolis Star, 18 June 2019
• Monday, the crash has left a gaping hole in this home’s fence.
  — Amanda Foster, Wbtv, charlotteobserver, 26 Dec. 2017
• 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
• If that bet wins, players will take home straight cash.
  — cleveland, 2 Oct. 2022
• Your lease does not change just because the home’s owner does.
  — Gary M. Singer, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 July 2018
• There's a park closer to their home but it isn't filled with kids like this one is.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 11 July 2018
• So Shandling drove the two hours home, then returned the next day.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 26 Mar. 2018
• Vélez’s sojourn in the convent did not last long, and she was soon called home.
  — Hadley Meares, Los Angeles Magazine, 8 Feb. 2018

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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
• The schools are shut down, the day cares are empty, and the kids are home.
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 23 Mar. 2020
• Her sister said the children were not home at the time.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], 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
• And of course, go to the beach—this area is home some of the region’s finest.
  — Baz Dreisinger, Forbes, 12 June 2022
• Williams said of the wreck, which occurred on his way home.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], 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
• The man’s mother answered the door and said her son was home.
  — cleveland, 24 Mar. 2022
• Students will make two rings to take home and gain the skills to make many more.
  — Arkansas Online, 4 Dec. 2022
• The hunters ran out of gas while bringing home eight seals and a walrus.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 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
• And then the bear family came home and scared them all away.
  — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 10 Aug. 2019
• Hayes walked home, struck by the power of that single word.
  — Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 26 July 2023
• Canyons Course was the same as playing with his friends back home.
  — Greg Luca, ExpressNews.com, 11 July 2020
• Workers who are not on track for a green card have to return home.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 8 June 2020
• But there’s a baseball headed home with him to prove it.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2019
• Bring soil and containers to bring your new plants home.
  — courant.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• The higher seed will be home in each best-of-three series.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 15 Aug. 2022
• None was injured, and at least three of them weren’t home when the fire started.
  — Ramon Antonio Vargas | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 19 Nov. 2020
• 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
• Without their jobs, all of them will need to return home.
  — WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023

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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
• 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
• Just how picky can home sellers be when choosing a buyer?
  — Nneka McGuire, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
• Instead, the president homed in on the Bidens, and the Bidens only.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 8 Feb. 2020
• Olivia Armstrong singles home a run as Hayden plates two runs in the top of the fifth.
  — Bill Lumpkin Iii, al, 18 May 2021
• 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
• Grant ducked as the gunman, who had spotted and homed in on him, started firing off rounds.
  — Susan Scutti, CNN, 6 Aug. 2019
• For a decade, rock bottom mortgage rates helped home buyers steadily bid up the cost of housing.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• Hodgkinson also homed in on the gun being found at the home near Antioch.
  — Jim Newton, Lake County News-Sun, 11 June 2019
• What should home buyers look for in an emerging housing market?
  — David M. Ewalt, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Will home delivery take a tumble when the pandemic ends and people return to stores in droves?
  — John Dorfman, Forbes, 10 Oct. 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
• 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, working with Bosch, Porsche homed in on the rotor instead.
  — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 21 Sep. 2017
• Ask candidates to complete a brief assignment designed to home in on skills.
  — Jenny Xia Spradling, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
• As onlookers with binoculars homed in on the site over a mile away from their boat, several more whale spouts emerged.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 28 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 2 May 2024