How to Use home in on in a Sentence

home in on

phrasal verb

• Video of the attack shows rounds hitting the water as the drones home in on the Ivanovets.
  — Joseph Ataman, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
• Grann homes in on a bunch of characters in and around the towns of Gray Horse and Fairfax, and Scorsese does the same.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
• The agency has homed in on the cinnamon specifically as the source of the lead.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 16 Dec. 2023
• To track the problem, researchers are now homing in on these seaborne flecks from more than 300 miles away—in space.
  — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2023
• This error results from homing in on a tiny slice of the graph and ignoring the rest.
  — Jeremy P. Shapiro, The Conversation, 2 May 2023
• Many of them keep logs for years that can be cross-referenced to home in on bite windows.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 25 Apr. 2023
• Then-Sony boss Amy Pascal challenged them to stop focusing on the jokes and home in on the characters and the heart.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2023
• For each iteration, the AI can home in on the pathways most likely to lead to success.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 12 Oct. 2023
• Our best advice is to start slow and work your way up, homing in on what type of dosing your dog should get each and every time.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
• The key, when waffling over whether to speak out, is homing in on consistency.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 8 June 2023
• And your phone can now home in on a lost remote with your phone, rather than digging frantically through the couch cushions.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2023
• Residents calling in to report noise complaints often cannot home in on the source.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
• Researching products beforehand can help you home in on the smartest buys.
  — Nick Guy, wsj.com, 17 Sep. 2023
• These examples show that humans who are not hard of hearing can home in on the melody of speech, a key component of the speech-to-sound illusion.
  — Ben MacAulay, Popular Science, 22 June 2023
• This is another area that marketers should really home in on this year.
  — Esther Flammer, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• Republicans have already homed in on the migrant crisis to attack Democrats ahead of the 2024 elections.
  — Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• A lot of Shakir’s investments over the past five years have specifically homed in on the digital health space and the intersection of AI.
  — Byjohn Kell, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2024
• The tradeoff is that the experience is less controlled, but those who go along for the ride can home in on certain characters or emotions.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2024
• Something your party has been homing in on on the campaign trail is voting rights and reproductive rights.
  — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
• First used in Afghanistan, the bombs home in on coordinates with the help of GPS signals, greatly boosting accuracy.
  — Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
• There are some remarkable choices made in the latter half of the movie that home in on the beauty and allure of the sport without ignoring its brutality.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2023
• Rock and pop historians love to home in on particular years.
  — David Kirby, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
• By 2020, the Department of Justice had begun to home in on the poultry-processing industry.
  — H. Claire Brown, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• On those large canvases, Bowling homes in on the textures of topography.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• Clinicians and researchers are still trying to home in on the right dosages, how many courses of ketamine therapy are needed and how long the benefits can last.
  — Daliah Singer, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2023
• Khan homed in on, among other tools, Amazon’s fulfillment services.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• In particular, the investigations homed in on the downtown section, North Austin and South Austin.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 9 May 2024
• Amid a flurry of congratulatory text messages that morning, Foltz homed in on an anomaly in the drone’s data stream.
  — Porter Fox, New York Times, 9 May 2023
• Ommaney Bay The Japanese bomber penetrated the task force’s defenses and homed in on the aircraft carrier—a major prize if sunk.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2023
• Few romantic comedies home in on two people later in life, revisiting a love lost.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 28 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024