come home

Example Sentences

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We’d come home, relax and watch TV, probably old episodes of “The Dick Van Dyke Show.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

And your little white lies will come home to roost.

From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026

He continued to run his party from abroad, and, after an apparent 'grand bargain', his conservative opponents allowed him to come home in 2023, to direct it once it was back in government again.

From BBC • May 10, 2026

That’s where “mother” has come home to roost, now applied as liberally to pop stars as it is screen sirens, influencers and Food Network hosts.

From Salon • May 10, 2026

When I got older, she said Dad was a spy who worked for the CIA and that’s why he couldn’t come home.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko