back home

idiom

: in one's hometown : in the place one is from

Peopleback home would never believe how much he has changed.

Examples of back home in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Daily life has been upended at schools, hospitals, stores and restaurants and in neighborhoods where sidewalks were once well-trodden with runners, people walking their dogs, families taking daily strolls and children heading back home after getting dropped off by the bus. —Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 24 Jan. 2026

At the same time, Greg Lapointe, one of Tattle’s teammates back home, was fighting stage three Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. —Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2026

Friends and family back home have relayed reports of ICE activity and raids in their neighborhoods. —Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026

Because of this, a hamster relies on other senses to navigate during the daytime, such as its super-sensitive whiskers and scent glands on its back that leave traces to guide it back home. —Noel Kirkpatrick, Treehugger, 20 Jan. 2026

Rhymes for back home

• biome
• genome
• megohm
• nichrome
• noisome
• prodrome
• radome
• rhizome
• shalom
• syndrome
• acrosome
• aerodrome