home-loving

Example Sentences

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“He’s a homebody, home-loving Cancer,” Mr. Maggio said of Mr. Scupelliti.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2017

He was a gentle, home-loving soul, she says, who his whole life scarcely spent a night away from his mother’s apartment.

From Slate • May 22, 2017

Tolkien’s slim book about home-loving hobbit Bilbo Baggins, coaxed away from his burrow to help a band of dwarves retake their mountain home from a destructive dragon.

From Washington Times • Dec. 12, 2014

In Peter Jackson's film, a home-loving lad tastes the wider world.

From The Guardian • Dec. 12, 2012

Often and again has she fled the splendid court, the glittering ball-room, and taken her station at the quiet hearth of the gentle and home-loving matron.

From The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883