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Examples of home in a Sentence
Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2023
There’s deep clarity and humanity in the way the home’s winding interior path guides you through space, the light shifting as a seemingly cold sculpture becomes a soothing, enveloping cocoon.
—Suleman Anaya Fabian Martinez, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023
New York — Ed Ruscha, born in Omaha, Neb., in 1937, grew up in a devoutly Roman Catholic home.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
It is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but is home to around 120,000 ethnic Armenians, who make up the majority of its population and reject Azerbaijan’s rule.
—Tim Lister, CNN, 20 Sep. 2023
Her death triggered a series of anti-Sikh riots, in which Hindu mobs went from house to house across northern India, particularly New Delhi, pulling Sikhs from their homes, hacking many to death and burning others alive.
—Time, 20 Sep. 2023
Regardless of square footage, having a versatile home is really key.
—Abby Wilson, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Sep. 2023
Along with blocks of homes, these neighborhoods lost churches, parks and small businesses – vital institutions in often already economically depressed areas.
—Mark Nichols, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2023
No injuries were reported, but the wine may have entered a home's basement, according to the distiller and Portuguese news platform Jornal Diário de Aveiro.
—Dennis Romero, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2023
Kevin Farron, Outdoor Life, 21 Sep. 2023
Guests walked home with gift bags filled with Glossier products.
—Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2023
Cloud, born Conor Angus Cloud Hickey, died on July 31 at his family home in Oakland.
—Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
Philip Paxson was following Google Maps directions while driving home late at night in September 2022 from his daughter’s 9th birthday party when the navigation system directed him to go over an unmarked and unbarricaded bridge that had collapsed years prior, the suit filed Tuesday states.
—Jamiel Lynch, CNN, 21 Sep. 2023
First, a Soyuz capsule — the Russian spacecraft that had brought Rubio to the ISS last September — sprung a coolant leak in mid-December, jeopardizing his ride home.
—Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
Residents recorded videos of the water level rising, then returned home to dry off and sleep as the night got darker and wetter.
—Ziad Jaber, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2023
The weekly show currently airs on Fox but will move to its new network home in October 2024 when the Fox deal expires.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 21 Sep. 2023
The suit alleges that Paxson was following directions using Google Maps while driving through an unfamiliar neighborhood on the way home from his daughter's ninth birthday party.
—Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2023
Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 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
The Hawaiian islands are home to paradise, both above and beneath the ocean's surface.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 21 July 2023
The Rangers are home for only 10 games in May and have travel that will take them to four different time zones: Central (Kansas City and Minnesota on separate trips), Eastern (Philadelphia and Miami on separate trips), Mountain (Colorado) and Pacific (Oakland).
—Evan Grant, Dallas News, 13 July 2023
In the winter, Queenstown's mountains are home to epic skiing and snowboarding.
—Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 14 Mar. 2023
Discord is already home to many AI developers, including Midjourney, which has created an AI image generator accessed through its own Discord chat server.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 9 Mar. 2023
The Astros were scheduled to play two home exhibition games and six regular season games at Minute Maid Park prior to April 9 — the earliest date on which the schedule will resume.
—Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2020
Zachary Small, New York Times, 4 May 2023
The Air Force plans to spend $320 million buying 1,500 units of the 204-pound munition, designed to home in on moving ground targets regardless of weather conditions or time of day.
—Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 9 Apr. 2023
Times like these provide an opportunity to home in on customers’ individual goals, values and motivations.
—Camille Nicita, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
Joy Fitzgerald, who just began her role at UnitedHealth but has also served in similar positions at Eli Lilly, wants to leverage the breadth of her experience and the data-gathering power of a health care giant with UnitedHealth's reach in order to home in on weak links in the medical supply chain.
—Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 17 June 2021
This perverse programming created a Salmonella strain that could home in on the anoxic core of tumors, grow to high density, and release a highly localized dose of anti-tumor drug.
—Jeffrey Marlow, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2017
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
Ask candidates to complete a brief assignment designed to home in on skills.
—Jenny Xia Spradling, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
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Word History
Noun
Middle English hom, hoome "dwelling, building, one's native town or land," going back to Old English hām "landed property, estate, dwelling, house, inhabited place, native land," going back to Germanic *haima- "dwelling" (whence also Old Saxon & Old Frisian hēm "home, dwelling," Middle Dutch heem, heim "dwelling," Old High German heima "dwelling, homeland," Old Norse heimr "abode, land, this world," Gothic haims "village, countryside, [in compounds] home"), of uncertain origin
Note: A widely accepted etymology sees Germanic *haima- as going back to Indo-European *ḱoi-mo, an o-grade derivative, with a suffix *-mo-, of the verbal base *ḱei- "lie, be at rest." Also from *ḱoi-mo- would be an assumed Greek *koímē or *koîmos "bed," the source of the denominal derivative koimáō, koimân "to put to bed, lay to rest" (see cemetery); further associated are Lithuanian šeimà "family, household members (including servants)," Latvian sàime, Russian Church Slavic sěmĭ "person," sěmija, translating Greek andrápoda "prisoners of war sold as slaves," sěminŭ "slave, household member," Russian sem'já "family," Ukrainian sim'já. (Lithuanian kiẽmas "farmstead, village" and káimas "village" are perhaps related, via a form with a centum outcome of ḱ, or as a loanword from Germanic.) According to an alternative hypothesis, Germanic *haima- goes back to Indo-European *tḱoi̯-mo-, a derivative with *-mo- from Indo-European *tḱei̯- "dwell, inhabit" (in a more traditional representation *ḱþei̯-; see amphictyony). Directly comparable would be Sanskrit kṣémaḥ "habitable," kṣémaḥ or -am (noun) "calm, quiet, safety," which within Sanskrit are direct derivatives from kṣéti "(s/he) dwells." The Baltic and Slavic forms cited above would then be attributable to this form.
Adverb
Middle English hom, going back to Old English hām, probably from accusative of hām "dwelling, home entry 1" (with parallel forms in other Germanic languages)
Adjective
from attributive use of home entry 1
Verb
derivative of home entry 1
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Adverb
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Adjective
13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb
1802, in the meaning defined at transitive sense
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“Home.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/home. Accessed 4 Oct. 2023.
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Kids Definition
home
1 of 4 nounhome
2 of 4 adverbhome
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4 of 4 verbNoun
Middle English hom, from Old English hām "village, home"
Biographical Definition
Home 1 of 2
biographical name (1)
Home
2 of 2biographical name (2)
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