How to Use house cat in a Sentence

house cat

noun

• At 8 pounds, the fox is not much larger than a house cat.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• Tiger, the house cat, shows up, sitting in Josh Brolin’s lap.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2024
• In life, those dinosaurs ranged in size from house cat to T. rex.
  — Anna Gibbs, Quanta Magazine, 20 Mar. 2023
• In the story, both God and the Devil are sent to Earth, in the bodies of chunky house cats.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2023
• These house cats have been clocked at speeds of up to thirty miles per hour.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
• As adults, blue duikers can weigh seven to 20 pounds, about the size of a house cat.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2022
• Found nowhere else but the Channel Islands, the island fox is about the size of a house cat.
  — Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• There's even a house cat named Pilou roaming the halls.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 11 Mar. 2022
• The other black cat, the jaguarundi, is much closer in size to a house cat than a jaguar.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 17 June 2023
• They are said to look like a cross between a raccoon, a house cat and a small bear cub.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2018
• Maxing out at about 27 miles per hour, that’s just under the top speed of a house cat.
  — Katrina Miller, Wired, 3 Aug. 2021
• The farm's pig races feature cute piglets not that much larger than a house cat.
  — Jack Schnedler, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2022
• An opossum is the size of a house cat, is nocturnal and lives in the forest.
  — Heloise, Washington Post, 22 June 2019
• This band of house cats, strays and orphans ride skateboards, jump through hoops, ring bells and more.
  — John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2024
• Red pandas are considered full-grown around two years of age and reach the size of a fluffy house cat.
  — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2022
• Not to mention the purrs that greet them from Fig and Newton, the hospital’s two house cats.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 25 Feb. 2024
• Until a few years ago, Bagel was a common house cat with a small circle of friends.
  — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 11 June 2019
• At least one light-colored house cat on the prowl was mistaken for the caracal.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 15 Oct. 2021
• Red pandas, much smaller than black and white pandas, grow to about the size of large house cats, with long bushy tails.
  — USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2020
• Still, the only reason they would have been exposed to those diseases in the first place would have been from house cats.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
• That car in the winner’s circle had about as much to do with your Monte Carlo as a cheetah does to a house cat.
  — Andy Mikonis, chicagotribune.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• Bobcat kittens are larger than house cat, and their tails, of course, are bobbed.
  — Matthew Martinez, star-telegram, 8 May 2018
• Cheetah-cub’ with spring-loaded legs to mimic the gait of its namesake at a house cat’s size.
  — David L. Hu, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2018
• While this is true about cats in general, house cats are an alien species to the Western Hemisphere.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 21 July 2017
• The cat, though, is just 25 pounds, bigger than a house cat, but smaller than a mountain lion.
  — Ed Lavandera, CNN, 6 Feb. 2023
• Two were sleeping, sprawled like giant house cats, but a third sat up and watched us through narrowed eyes.
  — Tayari Jones, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2023
• Life in the South is far better for Southern house cats than for Northern felines.
  — Zoë Gowen, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2016
• Cats didn’t evolve on the island, and the history of these elusive felines—twice the size of house cats—has long been a mystery.
  — Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 10 Mar. 2020
• An ornery house cat named Tiger is laid low by an enlarged bladder but keeps trying to live up to his name.
  — Mark Athitakis, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2018
• The ocelot is a midsize cat — larger than a house cat but smaller than a bobcat, according to the zoo.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024