How to Use home in on in a Sentence

home in on

verb

• Body heat finishes the job — mosquitoes home in on warm zones like the head and neck.
  — Ryan Brennan may 1, Sacbee.com, 1 May 2026
• His tongue tended to home in on the pocket behind his upper right incisors.
  — Tom Drury, Harpers Magazine, 29 Sep. 2026
• These books focus on the costs of drinking, homing in on the process of recovery.
  — Luis Parrales, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026
• Consider the genres of art that appeal to you, home in on those wings or galleries, and keep an open time-slot for a wildcard or two.
  — Katie James Watkinson, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Feb. 2026
• By night’s end Tuesday, the Spurs can begin to home in on a single opponent.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Apr. 2026
• Owner Dennis Roshal has a knack for homing in on the obsessives.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026
• But the video, at least, provides a sense of direction; something for investigators to home in on in their search for clues.
  — Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2026
• In the new study, the researchers home in on the relationship between sound and germination.
  — K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2026
• From there, the gene mapping went quickly, and scientists homed in on CDH1.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2026
• The first shoe was centered upon the work that goes into reaching success, while the second homes in on the concept of maintaining.
  — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 14 May 2026
• And some designers viewed the world through a microscopic lens, homing in on human hands and all things artisanal.
  — Ari Stark, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026
• Next, the researchers homed in on whether this region of the dog brain is involved in processing happiness or simply all emotions.
  — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2026
• Ireland’s slim but searching play presents an issue of deep discomfort and homes in on the subject of that larger communal response.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2026
• Some researchers are homing in on something that shows up in about 90 percent of baby teeth—faint lines, called neonatal lines, in the enamel.
  — Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, Popular Science, 11 Mar. 2026
• And over the next few decades, researchers would continue to home in on salt and water balance as the problem in CF patients.
  — Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
• Naheim immediately homes in on making the paper towels look like denim with various shades of blue dye.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2026
• Others, including Moledina, are homing in on more precise biomarkers that can be tracked in urine tests.
  — Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2026
• At the center is Cass Health, which has homed in on five cancers with particularly concerning rates.
  — Nick El Hajj, Des Moines Register, 15 Sep. 2026
• Because these major shifts are still ongoing, economists and policymakers alike are still trying to home in on that breakeven rate.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 7 May 2026
• Multicolored Mix Brown homed in on orange and peach tones to fill this wide-mouthed ceramic compote (any footed bowl will do).
  — Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 11 Apr. 2026
• In recent years, both BMG and Concord have homed in on music acquisitions.
  — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
• The twin-engine jets can also be armed with missiles that home in on electronic transmissions like radars and communications centers.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 2 Mar. 2026
• Officers covered all exits while others swept the interior, including homing in on locked doors.
  — Valerie Gonzalez, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
• Early observations have homed in on the symmetrical patterns in the nebula.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 11 Feb. 2026
• It’s designed specifically to work with athletes, relying on his experience as an athlete and a coach to home in on the values that translate best to sports.
  — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2026
• Trodelvy is an antibody that homes in on cancer cells that express a protein called TROP-2 on their surface.
  — Elaine Chen, STAT, 9 June 2026
• Recent articles have homed in on the crisis of reading without explicitly tending to the phenomena as a site of class warfare.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
• Meanwhile, researchers are homing in on critical brain functions that astrocytes mediate.
  — Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 30 Jan. 2026
• Those who questioned the allegations homed in on the absence of first-hand testimonies from victims immediately after the attacks.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 12 May 2026
• The next step is to do old-fashioned investigative work to eliminate some people as potential DNA sources and to home in on others.
  — Bill Chappell, NPR, 19 Feb. 2026