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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Others, including Moledina, are homing in on more precise biomarkers that can be tracked in urine tests.
    — Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • The White House has homed in on prescription drug prices, which data shows are two to three times more expensive on average than those in other developed countries.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 6 Feb. 2026
  • There’s a lot more to any company than the black-and-white facts and figures on its earnings, and that’s what O’Rourke and other AI bears are homing in on.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 26 Feb. 2026
  • What Kwapis homes in on is the peculiar bond between the three girls who, with the exception of main singer-songwriter and lead guitarist Dot, didn’t really want to be in a band at all.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Iranian officials are also homing in on the war's destabilizing impact on the global economy and energy prices.
    — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 1 Apr. 2026
  • In these circumstances, the centers work mainly to stabilize acute withdrawal symptoms rather than to home in on underlying factors that may drive substance use and possible return to use.
    — Emma Fenske, The Conversation, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Financing just 12 feature films a year, she’s homed in on talent pursuing cultural and social reverberations.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 11 May 2026
  • By monitoring the activity of nearby stars, Mauve will help scientists better home in on those that might host exoplanets that could potentially harbor life.
    — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 3 Mar. 2026
  • And while Republicans avoided the issue of Lutnick's connections to Epstein, Democrats homed in on it repeatedly.
    — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 10 Feb. 2026

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'home in on.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: