How to Use home movie in a Sentence

home movie

noun
  • In that case, consider this clip a home movie.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 22 May 2026
  • Sean and Olivia found some great unseen home movie footage and sent that.
    — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The film begins with a home movie image of a girl bounding down a rocky hill.
    — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Jenner started with a photo of the plush brown lounge chairs in her home movie theater.
    — Raven Brunner, People.com, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The wedding, in my memory, is a fuzzy home movie on fast-forward.
    — Joan Niesen, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Taylor Swift shared a childhood home movie with her fans on June 4.
    — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 5 June 2026
  • And yet, the Zapruder film was not the only home movie taken that day.
    — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 26 May 2023
  • Bring your home movie theater or set up a game room to ensure there’s something for everyone.
    — Bang Advertising Staff and Correspondents, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2024
  • In the home movie that still is pulled from, Bradford pretended to die after being shot.
    — Ismail Muhammad, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Elsewhere, amenities include a home movie theater and a swimming pool with a waterfall.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 12 July 2024
  • The home movie stuff, my dad was an amateur cameraman and photographer.
    — Lily Moayeri, Spin, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The property also boasts an on-site gym in the basement, as well as a full wet bar, recreation space, home movie theater and an indoor sports court.
    — Francesca Gariano, PEOPLE, 21 Dec. 2025
  • The Ektachrome had an additional advantage, which was to give the film the nostalgic haze of an old home movie.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The property features a home movie theater and an impressive swimming pool equipped with a waterfall.
    — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 18 July 2024
  • Their appearances, with the exception of Mitch, suggested what the character might be like in a home movie.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The lower level includes a basement workshop and a spectacular home movie theater.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 8 June 2023
  • The opening sequence is stylized to suggest a grainy home movie, with its vintage Kodak colors and rounded corners.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 July 2024
  • The upper level holds a bonus room, loft and three more bedrooms while the lower level comprises a large recreation room, home movie theater, a wine cellar and guest suite.
    — David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 4 Jan. 2025
  • The finished walkout basement offers a home gym and the home movie theater of your dreams, with a projector, professional screen, and six reclining leather seats.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The first home movie may be more than a century old, but home video gave amateurs seemingly boundless capacity for recording family and friends.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2026
  • In a home movie, Steven Spielberg captures his mother and younger sister dancing, followed by one of his earliest attempts at filmmaking.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Various organizations have also borrowed the library's popcorn maker, while families can use the machine for home movie nights that feel more like trips to the theater.
    — Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Some Acoustic Home Panels Acoustic home panels are often added to rooms, such as home movie theaters or practice rooms, where the sound tends to bounce off the walls.
    — Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The sculpture is in poignant dialogue with a video one floor down — looping Super 8 footage of the artist, age 12, acting in a home movie, pretending to be struck by a bullet.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • Their reluctance doesn’t come close to preparing you for what’s revealed in the home movie, a kinky source of comfort that’s perhaps Kinds of Kindness’ most hilarious gag.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
  • As the co-chairman continues to push the need to channel that inner 10-year-old, the episode switches to home movie footage of the players as kids, interspersed with match action from the game against Charlton.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 27 June 2025
  • Stewart was looking for South Side residents’ old home movie footage, shot on 8 millimeter, Super 8 and 16 millimeter film.
    — Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2025
  • After Anna disappeared when Charlotte died under her watch, her mother watched every home movie Anna recorded with her cam-corder throughout her teenage years to feel closer to her daughter.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The home movie shot on the front lawn in Leeds was an astonishing achievement, and a decisive step toward the vision of human interconnectedness that Le Prince would not live to see betrayed.
    — Nat Segnit, Harper's Magazine, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The film features exclusive images and previously unseen home movie footage, family photographs and in-depth interviews with both literary experts and those who knew him well, including colleagues, family, and childhood friends.
    — Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 29 Apr. 2023

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