: confined to the home
Examples of homebound in a Sentence
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2024
Joann and its peers saw a resurgence during the pandemic, as homebound consumers looked for ways to entertain themselves or beautify their spaces.
—Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2024
Luddites also protested how the factory disrupted the structure of their homebound cottage industry.
—Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2024
The emerging conventional wisdom declared that while certain blockbusters might still attract large audiences to theaters, the future of the art form was decisively asynchronous and homebound.
—A.o. Scott, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2023
And retail spaces faced lower demand as homebound consumers relied more upon e-commerce for their daily needs, prompting new business creativity in responses.
—Caleb Richter, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
Ideal for the coffee shop regular, homebound worker, or library enthusiast.
—Hyphensocial Contributors, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2024
Williamson founded Project Angel Food, which began as a program to deliver meals to homebound people with AIDS and later expanded to people battling any critical illness.
—Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2024
Samuel feels he is saddled with too many homebound responsibilities, forced to sacrifice for Sandra's writing career.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Sep. 2023
Adjective
The political realm is also inseparable from his view of the homebound story of Utamaro (played by Minosuke Bandô), an eighteenth-century artist who worked in the popular medium of woodblock prints, specializing in portraits of women.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2024
Joann and its peers saw a resurgence during the pandemic, as homebound consumers looked for ways to entertain themselves or beautify their spaces.
—Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2024
Luddites also protested how the factory disrupted the structure of their homebound cottage industry.
—Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2024
The emerging conventional wisdom declared that while certain blockbusters might still attract large audiences to theaters, the future of the art form was decisively asynchronous and homebound.
—A.o. Scott, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2023
And retail spaces faced lower demand as homebound consumers relied more upon e-commerce for their daily needs, prompting new business creativity in responses.
—Caleb Richter, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
Ideal for the coffee shop regular, homebound worker, or library enthusiast.
—Hyphensocial Contributors, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2024
Williamson founded Project Angel Food, which began as a program to deliver meals to homebound people with AIDS and later expanded to people battling any critical illness.
—Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2024
Samuel feels he is saddled with too many homebound responsibilities, forced to sacrifice for Sandra's writing career.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Sep. 2023
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“Homebound.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homebound. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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homebound
1 of 2 adjective
home·bound
ˈhōm-ˌbau̇nd 
: going or heading for home
homebound travelers
homebound
2 of 2 adjective
: confined to the home
was homebound with a broken foot
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