How to Use home in on in a Sentence

home in on

phrasal verb

• After six albums, Carpenter has homed in on her strengths, and these songs play to them over 36 delightful minutes.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 4 Sep. 2024
• Video of the attack shows rounds hitting the water as the drones home in on the Ivanovets.
  — Joseph Ataman, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
• The males will then change their tunes and try to home in on the clicking females in order to mate.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 6 May 2024
• Grann homes in on a bunch of characters in and around the towns of Gray Horse and Fairfax, and Scorsese does the same.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
• The agency has homed in on the cinnamon specifically as the source of the lead.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 16 Dec. 2023
• To track the problem, researchers are now homing in on these seaborne flecks from more than 300 miles away—in space.
  — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2023
• This error results from homing in on a tiny slice of the graph and ignoring the rest.
  — Jeremy P. Shapiro, The Conversation, 2 May 2023
• Many of them keep logs for years that can be cross-referenced to home in on bite windows.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 25 Apr. 2023
• Then-Sony boss Amy Pascal challenged them to stop focusing on the jokes and home in on the characters and the heart.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2023
• Find a way to home in on one or two specific paths to make more useful headway.
  — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 16 Apr. 2024
• For each iteration, the AI can home in on the pathways most likely to lead to success.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 12 Oct. 2023
• But more research is needed to really home in on what trees across the whole globe are doing.
  — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 24 July 2024
• Our best advice is to start slow and work your way up, homing in on what type of dosing your dog should get each and every time.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
• Adults looking to home in on their artistic side can also check out classes.
  — Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2024
• This creates a living map that anglers can use to further home in on a fishing spot.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 22 May 2024
• The key, when waffling over whether to speak out, is homing in on consistency.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 8 June 2023
• And your phone can now home in on a lost remote with your phone, rather than digging frantically through the couch cushions.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2023
• Residents calling in to report noise complaints often cannot home in on the source.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
• Researching products beforehand can help you home in on the smartest buys.
  — Nick Guy, wsj.com, 17 Sep. 2023
• Jann leads me through the hubbub, homing in on a crumpled, hairless version of myself in a wheelchair.
  — Minrose Gwin, New York Times, 18 May 2024
• These examples show that humans who are not hard of hearing can home in on the melody of speech, a key component of the speech-to-sound illusion.
  — Ben MacAulay, Popular Science, 22 June 2023
• This is another area that marketers should really home in on this year.
  — Esther Flammer, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• Republicans have already homed in on the migrant crisis to attack Democrats ahead of the 2024 elections.
  — Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• A lot of Shakir’s investments over the past five years have specifically homed in on the digital health space and the intersection of AI.
  — Byjohn Kell, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2024
• The tradeoff is that the experience is less controlled, but those who go along for the ride can home in on certain characters or emotions.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2024
• This season promises to home in on the friends-to-lovers dynamic between fan favorites Penelope and Colin.
  — Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week Us, theweek, 6 May 2024
• The edited videos getting the most vitriolic comments online home in on a female agent who missed her holster for a split second.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
• Something your party has been homing in on on the campaign trail is voting rights and reproductive rights.
  — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
• First used in Afghanistan, the bombs home in on coordinates with the help of GPS signals, greatly boosting accuracy.
  — Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
• Some companies have homed in on technical issues with the fine print of the law’s implementation.
  — Justin Worland, TIME, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024