How to Use house cat in a Sentence

house cat

noun
  • Some have compared their size to a house cat.
    — Ryan Brennan april 24, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
  • These house cats have been clocked at speeds of up to thirty miles per hour.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The tiny monkeys, which are about the size of a house cat, are all females.
    — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 11 Nov. 2024
  • The farm's pig races feature cute piglets not that much larger than a house cat.
    — Jack Schnedler, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2022
  • They are said to look like a cross between a raccoon, a house cat and a small bear cub.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2018
  • There was a time when Lee would’ve been more averse to getting wet than a house cat.
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Tiger, the house cat, shows up, sitting in Josh Brolin’s lap.
    — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2024
  • This theory states that all house cats are either bush dwellers or tree dwellers.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 21 Apr. 2025
  • This band of house cats, strays and orphans ride skateboards, jump through hoops, ring bells and more.
    — John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2024
  • Bobcat kittens are larger than house cat, and their tails, of course, are bobbed.
    — Matthew Martinez, star-telegram, 8 May 2018
  • And, like most native birds and mammals, marmots are on the menu of house cats, too.
    — Steven Sullivan, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The other black cat, the jaguarundi, is much closer in size to a house cat than a jaguar.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 17 June 2023
  • That cat is the oldest house cat ever found on the Silk Road.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2025
  • As adults, blue duikers can weigh seven to 20 pounds, about the size of a house cat.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Red pandas are considered full-grown around two years of age and reach the size of a fluffy house cat.
    — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2022
  • An opossum is the size of a house cat, is nocturnal and lives in the forest.
    — Heloise, Washington Post, 22 June 2019
  • Maxing out at about 27 miles per hour, that’s just under the top speed of a house cat.
    — Katrina Miller, Wired, 3 Aug. 2021
  • But eyewitnesses to the fire said two house cats may have perished.
    — Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Some are feral but most seem to have been house cats — including purebreds.
    — Jane Arraf, NPR, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Until a few years ago, Bagel was a common house cat with a small circle of friends.
    — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 11 June 2019
  • Bobcats are known to be skilled predators and have longer claws and teeth than domestic house cats.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 2 Apr. 2025
  • These two young hounds chased the house cats around the San Ysidro ranch house together.
    — Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 27 Feb. 2025
  • In video of one such photo shoot, the cub — smaller than a house cat — shrank back from the loud voices around him.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Red pandas, much smaller than black and white pandas, grow to about the size of large house cats, with long bushy tails.
    — USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2020
  • Did house cats evolve in a single location, or in several places around the same time?
    — Jerry A. Coyne, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
  • For a lesson in euphoria, look no further than a house cat twined around a twig of silver vine.
    — New York Times, 20 Jan. 2021
  • An ornery house cat named Tiger is laid low by an enlarged bladder but keeps trying to live up to his name.
    — Mark Athitakis, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Still, the only reason they would have been exposed to those diseases in the first place would have been from house cats.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
  • At full size, pudus stand just 13 to 17 inches tall — roughly the height of a house cat.
    — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Found nowhere else but the Channel Islands, the island fox is about the size of a house cat.
    — Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023

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

Last Updated: