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Example sentences for "home for"

  • As far as they could both see at present, Mavis was to keep on with her work at the office (the honeymoon was to consist of her fortnight's annual holiday), till such time as he could prepare a home for her in Wales.

  • It hurt Mavis considerably to tell her the story she had concocted, of a husband in straitened circumstances in America, who was struggling to prepare a home for her.

  • He had emigrated in advance of his family to build up a home for them.

  • The use of Atlanta for warlike purposes is inconsistent with its character as a home for families.

  • There was a home for Hetta, with every comfort, if Hetta would only condescend to accept it.

  • You can, at any rate, find a home for yourself, and a friend for us.

  • I can make a home for myself at the cottage.

  • She has got a committee meeting for the Ladies' Literary and Scientific Association, and must go home for it the day after to-morrow,' said Charlotte.

  • I can hardly expect to offer him what is likely to be as agreeable to him as the conversation and amusements of Edward and Tom Harewood, who are sure to be at home for the St. Mildred's races.

  • Could that abode ever be a home for a creature like Amy, with the bright innocent mirth that seemed too soft and sweet ever to be overshadowed by gloom and sorrow?

  • I could not ask any happy home to take her in; I cannot bear to think of the Old Lady's Home for her, she will think her children have turned her off.

  • If I can do no better, I will give up my position, and stay on land and make some kind of a home for her.

  • She had not stayed at home for Morris, and Linnet would not come early enough to keep them at home, that is if she ought to remain at home for Linnet.

  • O, no, the Connecticut schoolmaster had to come and make a home for her.

  • It will be quite time enough to write to our friends after we have been comfortably settled at home for a time.

  • For four months after Sir John's death they went away travelling, and were only at home for a few weeks before they went up to London the other day, in time for the first Drawing Room.

  • The 'Domus Conversorum,' or home for converts, was established in 1232 (by order of Henry III.

  • In London he founded a home for enquirers; and edited a periodical entitled, "The Scattered Nation.

  • He was the first, as far as we know, to open a home for enquirers, of which he had the charge for many years.

  • Consequently we had no longer any rightful claim to the dwelling which had been our home for so many years.

  • During the time that Eugene was feeling so badly and because, if he were going to lose his health, it might be necessary to economize greatly, it occurred to Angela that it might be advisable for them to go home for a visit.

  • Eugene learned in the conversation that he was a railroad man in St. Paul--home for a brief vacation, after three years of absence.

  • I think I'll come up home for a week or so.

  • Perfectly resigned to his discharge, he devoted himself to getting well, preparing for business, and earning a home for Meg.

  • Do you love him enough to wait till he can make a home for you, or will you keep yourself quite free for the present?

  • Could ye be buyin' a home for childher an' dogs for the price of a penny?

  • So the "Home for Curables" has come true.

  • You don't ever have to stop working to make a home for a family," she repeated with a nod of encouragement to Miss Thorley who looked disgusted instead of pleased as Mary Rose had expected she would look.

  • Seems if he didn't send us any of our own so we'd have plenty of room in our hearts an' home for her.

  • I told her she wouldn't have to stop work to make a home for a family, Mr. Jerry," she whispered encouragingly.

  • Aren't you ever going to make a home for a family?

  • He said he was going to try to get Mrs. Harmon to let him go home for Thanksgiving, though he presumed he might have to come back the same night.

  • The first thing I've got to do after I've made a home for her is to get Statira away from the town where she can have some better air, and see if she can't get her health back.

  • They had all come rather early to make their parting visit at the Sewells, for the Barkers were going to take the two o'clock train for Willoughby Pastures, while Statira was to remain in Boston till he could make a home for her.

  • The place that had been in its grotesque and insufficient fashion a home for so many homeless people was uninhabitable; even the Harmons could not go back to it.

  • For o'er the southern moors I have a home for thee.

  • I prefer to go out in the world and make a home for myself, for I must be as good a man as you are, or the feeling of comradeship between us will soon end.

  • For, just before it happened, we had been at home for a day's holiday.

  • Meanwhile you'll help me with the work at home for a few weeks first; won't you, dear?

  • Such a thing as keeping a ploughboy at home for a holiday, had never entered her imagination.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "home for" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    avail himself; black earth; each half; external evidence; giving power; home affairs; home and; home for; home from; home industry; home life; home range; home till; home with; homeward bound; human welfare; large majority; leave town; many members; several gentlemen; sharp report; this moment; went and; when they saw the; white dress; year course