How to Use come home to in a Sentence

come home to

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  • A lot to come home to, for sure.
    Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Dad did not come home to join us in our grieving.
    John Wrory Ficklin, Time, 11 Feb. 2026
  • This was so easy and great to come home to after a late meeting.
    Nellah Bailey McGough, Southern Living, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The mother every woman wanted to be, and the wife every man wanted to come home to.
    Shafiq Najib, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Certainly, these 20 hostages are going to come home to their families.
    ABC News, 12 Oct. 2025
  • At some point, this is where the ideal of the campaign, the promises made in the campaign, actually come home to roost.
    Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 24 July 2025
  • Dine inside or sit by the water to watch the boats come home to Myrtle Grove Marina.
    Kristy Christiansen, Southern Living, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Like so many of us, Ron basically wants to get through the day with a modicum of pride in his job and come home to a stress-free environment.
    Julie Hinds, Freep.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Superman appears in the teaser during a transmission, asking when his cousin might come home to Earth.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Simply throw a boneless pork shoulder roast and some sweet onions with a bit of Southern seasoning in a slow-cooker, and come home to a ready-to-eat meal.
    Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Really, for the first time in my lifetime, certainly these 20 hostages are going to come home to their families, George.
    Isabella Murray, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Three years after the infamous McCaffrey trade, the chickens come home to roost for Carolina.
    Charlotte Observer, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The New Moon is ruled by Venus, who’s just come home to Libra, adding a layer of divine ease and elegance to the cosmic weather.
    Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 19 Oct. 2025
  • But Dimon is also in the camp of individuals worried about how America’s borrowing habit may come home to roost.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 14 July 2026
  • Nobody wants to endure a Wednesday of flight delays and icy roads and finally come home to a stressed family, only to then watch characters suffer through the same.
    Alex Ross Perry, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Your family will come home to delicious aromas wafting through the house from this classic slow-cooker Mississippi Pot Roast.
    Nellah Bailey McGough, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The plot concerns a man who has come home to see his semi-estranged, dying father and who tries, with exasperation, to discern what bits of reality lie in his dad’s fantastical life stories.
    The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2025
  • To do so, Bernal enlists his nephew, Charlie (Arjo Atayde), a lawyer who’s been working in America and has come home to take care of his ailing father.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Working for his hometown has its satisfactions After living all over the world for 25 years in the foreign service, Marc Shaw, 51, was ready to come home to Kansas City, Missouri.
    Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Republicans, led by McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner, claimed that the Democrats were trying to distract from the poor rollout and tanking approval numbers of the Affordable Care Act, and promised that the filibuster vote would come home to roost at the ballot box the next year.
    Jon Ralston, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2026

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