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
  • 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
  • Vélez’s sojourn in the convent did not last long, and she was soon called home.
    Hadley Meares, Los Angeles Magazine, 8 Feb. 2018
  • The new bar area enhances the home's status as a party house.
    Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 6 Aug. 2023
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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.
  • 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 | Minabinett@al.com, 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 | Crobinson@al.com, 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
  • And then the bear family came home and scared them all away.
    Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Many of us have learned some things in this year of working from home and via Zoom.
    Dan Labbe, cleveland, 25 Dec. 2020
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home

3 of 3 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
  • 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
  • They and other researchers homed in on a gene called period.
    Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 2 Oct. 2017

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