How to Use home range in a Sentence

home range

noun
  • As for why these three are thousands of miles from their home range?
    — CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • But not before the bear prowls the perimeter of his home range.
    — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The first of these is a new estimate for the sand cat’s home range.
    — Nell Lewis, CNN, 2 May 2023
  • Some bats may also conceive a map made of sounds from their home range.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Still, bears’ home ranges can move from inside to outside the park.
    — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 May 2018
  • That may have wiped out a species’ unique adaptations to its home range.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 21 May 2018
  • Its home range is about one-fourth to a half-mile in diameter.
    — Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune, 4 Feb. 2021
  • These bears are likely yearlings kicked out of their home range by their mothers.
    — John Lauritsen, CBS News, 18 May 2026
  • Here are a few factors to consider when setting up your home range.
    — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 22 Nov. 2020
  • Turtles have a home range and females often return to the same area to lay eggs.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, Hartford Courant, 24 May 2022
  • The teens found in the Richmond home ranged in age from 14 to 16 years old.
    — CBS News, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Around the world, more communities sprawl into bears’ home ranges.
    — WIRED, 25 July 2023
  • In the wild, skunks generally have a home range no larger than about 2 square miles.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2026
  • Some barely leave a small home range, while one male traveled roughly 40 miles in six months.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 2 July 2026
  • Turtles maintain a home range, and females often return to the same area to lay their eggs.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 14 May 2026
  • The species once had a home range that spanned from the Red Sea to eastern India.
    — National Geographic, 20 Nov. 2019
  • The typical cornfield is at least five acres, while a common hamster’s home range is less than a tenth of that size.
    — Ben Crair, Smithsonian, 21 Feb. 2018
  • They’re often bumped out of their typical home range and travel miles away and on the opposite side of a ridge.
    — Roger Phillips, idahostatesman, 18 Dec. 2017
  • These animals need a lot of space—their home range can encompass up to 600 square miles.
    — Fox News, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Big woods bucks are wanderers and may have a home range that extends for 10 miles in any direction.
    — Hal Blood, Outdoor Life, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The first was a homebody-type pattern, and these bucks didn’t drastically change their home range from summer to fall.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The spiders climbing up the walls of the Gentrys’ home range in size from mere inches to more than 7 feet wide.
    — Doug MacCash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 19 Oct. 2020
  • On the Alaska Peninsula, brown bear home ranges can extend as far as 100 square miles.
    — Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 11 June 2018
  • Breeding season is over, the pups are out of the den and the dogs are roaming across their 116-square-mile home range with predatory brio.
    — New York Times, 20 June 2022
  • In the meager deserts of southern Namibia, brown hyenas maintain home ranges of up to 1,150 square miles.
    — Christine Dell'amore, National Geographic, 14 June 2019
  • Those home ranges often overlap, however, since researchers have found as many as 40 skunks per square mile in areas of abundance food and water.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2026
  • By the age of 2, most panthers have typically left their mothers to establish their own large home ranges, biologists say.
    — Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
  • With sunflower sea stars suddenly all but gone from their home range, sea urchin numbers exploded, and the hungry urchin hordes descended upon kelp forests.
    — JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The study, which appears in the Journal of Arid Environments, provides the largest dataset on the home range of sand cats ever recorded.
    — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The critters who drop in or call the space home range from monarch butterflies, ladybugs and lizards to hummingbirds and bushtits, skunks, opossums and even the occasional mountain lion.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2026

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