How to Use home in a Sentence

home

1 of 4 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
  • Baez shares the lead with Joe Lampe in home runs with 10.
    — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 12 May 2022
  • And, the recipe is good for all levels of at-home chefs.
    — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Hit the floor this Christmas and clean the toilets in the host home.
    — Wilborn P. Nobles Iii, NOLA.com, 25 Dec. 2017
  • In the video, Homolya walked up to the neighbor’s home.
    — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Because of this, the home stays warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
    — Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 12 May 2022
  • Over 2,000 structures burned in the town, most of which were homes.
    — CBS News, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes.
    — Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 10 May 2019
  • Hardwood floors flow through the room and are a feature found in much of the home.
    — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 19 June 2022
  • Just down the street stands Samuel Watkins’s historic home.
    — David French, National Review, 1 Nov. 2017
  • You were raised in a home where you were taught good manners.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Can’t take a good idea and start a business and can’t buy our first home.
    — Time Staff, Time, 29 June 2019
  • So Shandling drove the two hours home, then returned the next day.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 26 Mar. 2018
  • One home set into a hill looked from the facade to have been spared.
    — Philly.com, 5 Nov. 2017
  • 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
  • From home prices to inflation, there was a lot to keep track of this year.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • And, there would be more sales if only there were more homes for sale.
    — Ilyce Glink and Samuel Tamkin, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2023
  • Our tester was shocked at the price after testing in her home for a month.
    — Theresa Holland, Peoplemag, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Head upstairs to find the primary suite, which is where the third of the home’s five fireplaces can be found, as well as a walk-in closet and a bathroom.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The interior is home to five generous guest cabins, one lavish owner’s suite, and a sprawling main salon of 164 square feet.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2024
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home

2 of 4 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.
  • And of course, go to the beach—this area is home some of the region’s finest.
    — Baz Dreisinger, Forbes, 12 June 2022
  • Did your favorite films of the year go home with the gold?
    — Vogue, 25 Feb. 2019
  • The schools are shut down, the day cares are empty, and the kids are home.
    — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 23 Mar. 2020
  • 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 residents were not home at the time of the burglary.
    — Emma Colton, Fox News, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Will the king @harrykane bring it home tonight and secure that place in the final?!
    — SI.com, 11 July 2018
  • Williams said of the wreck, which occurred on his way home.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The family was driving home from church at the time of the crash.
    — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 15 July 2019
  • Her sister said the children were not home at the time.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 2 May 2022
  • Stood in line, got my pass, then went back home at 7:30 a.m.
    — Nicholas Ballasy, PEOPLE.com, 11 May 2022
  • The man’s mother answered the door and said her son was home.
    — cleveland, 24 Mar. 2022
  • His daughter, falling asleep in the back seat of the truck, begged to go home.
    — Jacob Roberts, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Maybe Matthew Stafford should have stayed home this week.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Canyons Course was the same as playing with his friends back home.
    — Greg Luca, ExpressNews.com, 11 July 2020
  • 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
  • The Browns play the 5-6 Rams Sunday, then come home and face 8-3 Jacksonville.
    — Jim Ingraham, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Hayes walked home, struck by the power of that single word.
    — Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 26 July 2023
  • The higher seed will be home in each best-of-three series.
    — Joe Noga, cleveland, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Both teams had two runners on in the eighth, but couldn't bring home the go-ahead run.
    — Dave Hogg, Star Tribune, 27 June 2021
  • Last week’s town hall brought home just how small-scale Buttigieg’s day job is.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 28 June 2019
  • The circular restaurant, once home to Union Cafe, opened in 2011.
    — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2024
  • The island’s west is where most people live, home to the largest cities, an extensive high-speed rail network and much of the industrial heartland.
    — Wayne Chang, CNN, 5 Apr. 2024
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home

3 of 4 adjective
  • The team opens its home season in just two weeks.
  • She has a happy home life.
  • What is your home address?
  • Please give us your home phone number.
  • Four people lived in the building and one resident was not home when the fire started, Boyd said.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The Hawaiian islands are home to paradise, both above and beneath the ocean's surface.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 21 July 2023
  • In the winter, Queenstown's mountains are home to epic skiing and snowboarding.
    — Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 14 Mar. 2023
  • While the catwalk is home to head-turning designer creations, Milan’s historic buildings and galleries are home to some of the most iconic artworks in the world.
    — Connor Sturges, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The former co-workers were not home when Cavalcante visited.
    — Brittany Shammas, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Many Southern states are home to daily or weekly train rides ideal for seeing fall foliage—as well as autumn specials to get you and your family on the rails and making memories together this season.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The team opens its home season in just two weeks.
  • She has a happy home life.
  • What is your home address?
  • Please give us your home phone number.
  • Four people lived in the building and one resident was not home when the fire started, Boyd said.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The Hawaiian islands are home to paradise, both above and beneath the ocean's surface.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 21 July 2023
  • In the winter, Queenstown's mountains are home to epic skiing and snowboarding.
    — Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 14 Mar. 2023
  • While the catwalk is home to head-turning designer creations, Milan’s historic buildings and galleries are home to some of the most iconic artworks in the world.
    — Connor Sturges, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The former co-workers were not home when Cavalcante visited.
    — Brittany Shammas, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Many Southern states are home to daily or weekly train rides ideal for seeing fall foliage—as well as autumn specials to get you and your family on the rails and making memories together this season.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The team opens its home season in just two weeks.
  • She has a happy home life.
  • What is your home address?
  • Please give us your home phone number.
  • Four people lived in the building and one resident was not home when the fire started, Boyd said.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The Hawaiian islands are home to paradise, both above and beneath the ocean's surface.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 21 July 2023
  • In the winter, Queenstown's mountains are home to epic skiing and snowboarding.
    — Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 14 Mar. 2023
  • While the catwalk is home to head-turning designer creations, Milan’s historic buildings and galleries are home to some of the most iconic artworks in the world.
    — Connor Sturges, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The former co-workers were not home when Cavalcante visited.
    — Brittany Shammas, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Many Southern states are home to daily or weekly train rides ideal for seeing fall foliage—as well as autumn specials to get you and your family on the rails and making memories together this season.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2023
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home

4 of 4 verb
  • District 3 has home field in the third round if seeds are equal.
    — James Weber, Cincinnati.com, 29 Oct. 2017
  • How can home shoppers find the most bang for their buck?
    — oregonlive, 19 June 2022
  • 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
  • Instead, the president homed in on the Bidens, and the Bidens only.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 8 Feb. 2020
  • And now, a team of researchers may have homed in on a crucial cache of clues.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2020
  • The winning team takes home their pot at the end of the competition.
    — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • How far out of Portland will home shoppers go to buy a house?
    — oregonlive, 5 Sep. 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
  • This produces a bright radar echo called a broadside flash, which is easy to home in on.
    — Abe Dane, Popular Mechanics, 3 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • His probe of Samuels homed in on a complex in Austin, Texas, where a collection of...
    — Peg Brickley, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2019
  • Closer to home The Twins' top farm club is just a few miles away for the first time since the team moved to Minnesota.
    — Star Tribune, 3 May 2021
  • That man was Jim Keene, who has missed only five Badgers home games in 45 years.
    — Star Tribune, 28 Nov. 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
  • Be sure to check the trap often and re-home the animals promptly.
    — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 18 May 2021
  • How could home prices continue to tick up in the face of soaring mortgage rates?
    — Fortune, 28 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
  • 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
  • Taking notes on a white pad, Mr. Arnold homed in on key points to press with lawmakers.
    — Peter Loftus, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2018
  • The cookware company Nordic Ware began selling the pans to home cooks in 2001.
    — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Grant ducked as the gunman, who had spotted and homed in on him, started firing off rounds.
    — Susan Scutti, CNN, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Customers flock to Copper Kettle from all over the state; some are chefs, others home cooks.
    — Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Just how picky can home sellers be when choosing a buyer?
    — Nneka McGuire, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
  • For all the paeans to home bread-baking in 2020, the true story of pandemic eating may be a bit more slippery.
    — Joe Walsh, Forbes, 6 July 2021
  • Hodgkinson also homed in on the gun being found at the home near Antioch.
    — Jim Newton, Lake County News-Sun, 11 June 2019
  • And Democrats homed in on the fact that the list of Russians hit with sanctions included all of those indicted by Mueller.
    — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2018
  • For a decade, rock bottom mortgage rates helped home buyers steadily bid up the cost of housing.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • In an initial court appearance, a judge freed him to home confinement on a bond of three million dollars.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 17 May 2022
  • That’s when the shelter took the unusual step of asking people not to relinquish their dogs but to try to keep them for a while longer or to re-home their pets themselves.
    — Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2023

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