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How to use homer in a sentence

24 example sentences · noun, verb

Homer means a former Hebrew unit of dry volume, about equal to 230 L or 6+¹⁄₂ US bushels. Example: “The first baseman hit a homer to lead off the ninth.”

Examples of homer by meaning

nounA former Hebrew unit of dry volume, about equal to 230 L or 6+¹⁄₂ US bushels.

  • For every newbegotten thou shalt gather thy homer of ripe wheat.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses

nounA home run.

  • The first baseman hit a homer to lead off the ninth.
  • The Mets got that four-run cushion in the seventh when George Foster stepped in as a pinch-hitter and hit a two-run homer for the 5-1 final.1983 June 27, Kevin Dupont, “METS GAIN SPLIT; STAUB TIES MARK”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 24 May 2015

nounSynonym of home run (“sexual intercourse”).

  • Where Chase hit a homer, first at bat.2019, M. R. Biggs, Not 4 $ale

nounA homing pigeon.

  • Each of the pigeon fanciers released a homer at the same time.

nounA person who is extremely devoted to a favorite team.

  • Joe is such a homer that he would never boo the Hometown Hobos, even if they are in last place in the league.

nounA homing beacon.

  • Two general types of homer systems are in use, active homers and passive homers.1961, RCA Service Company, Digest of Military Electronics, page 75

nounHomework.

  • There's simply nothing to do when you've got through your homers.' Jane finished the last of her home-lessons and shut the book with a bang.1904, E. Nesbit, The Phoenix and the Carpet

verbTo hit a homer; to hit a home run.

  • The Sultan of Swat homered 714 times.

More sentences with homer

  • Homer makes Aphrodite the daughter of Zeus, unlike Hesiod who depicted her as born from the sea foam.From the entry make
  • Homer relates an episode in the Trojan War that reveals the tragic consequences of the wrath of Achilles.From the entry wrath
  • Watson had a 3-run homer and a 2-run double for a total of five ribeyes on the night.From the entry ribeye
  • Homer Simpson popularised the term "d'oh".From the entry popularise
  • And all the other pigeoneers I knew were obsessed homer men who cared only about racing.2014, Stephen Bodio, Aloft: A Meditation on Pigeons & Pigeon-Flying, →ISBN. From the entry homer man
  • Or did he have the roughest year any 48-homer whomper ever had?2009, Jason Stark, “One Win Away”, in Worth the Wait: Tales of the 2008 Phillies, Chicago, Illinois: Triumph Books, →ISBN, page 186. From the entry whomper
  • The ball rose in a high trajectory and sailed deep into the bullpen for a homer.1949, Jimmy Powers, Baseball Personalities: The Most Colorful Figures of All Time, New York, N.Y.: R. Field, →OCLC, page 254. From the entry blooper
  • But no Homer man ever yet "got rich quick" breeding homers.1903, The Poultry Tribune - Volumes 8-9, page 41. From the entry homer man
  • Homer came over to me gingerly, then froze.2010, Katz, Jon, A dog year : rescuing Devon, the most troublesome dog in the world, page 134. From the entry herding eye
  • Homer, we can't root for one child over the other.1994 November 13, Mike Scully, “Lisa on Ice”, in The Simpsons, season 6, episode 8, spoken by Marge Simpson (Julie Kavner), production…. From the entry root for
  • Regardless, the real homer man doesn't want them back.1962, Mervin F. Roberts, How to Raise & Train Pigeons, →ISBN, page 38. From the entry homer man
  • But the last time he faced them, on Sept. 9, he gave up nine runs, including five homers, and got just three outs.2019 November 14, Tyler Kepner, “After Reports of Astros' Cheating, M.L.B. Is Left to Restore Trust”, in The New York Times, New York…. From the entry give up
  • Homer, the master-builder and rebel against time, in whom the conviction that the ‘winged word’ shall outlast death speaks out in constant jubilation, goes blind.1966, George Steiner, “Silence and the Poet”, in Language and Silence: Essays 1958–1966, London: Faber and Faber, published 2010, →ISBN…. From the entry winged word
  • Homer Smith, it has been held that 'In general the pastoral incidents serve as an underplot, utterly foreign in spirit to the main plot.'1906, Walter W. Greg, Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama. From the entry underplot
  • Homer often speaks of epea pteroenta, "winged words": in traditional interpretations, this metaphor stood for the swift and lofty birdlike flight of language, particularly poetic language.2007, Piero Boitani, “Epilogue: Winged Words”, in Winged Words: Flight in Poetry and History, EasyRead Large edition, U.S.A.…. From the entry winged word

Meaning of homer

  1. noun A former Hebrew unit of dry volume, about equal to 230 L or 6+¹⁄₂ US bushels.
  2. noun Synonym of cor: approximately the same volume as a liquid measure.
  3. noun A home run.

Full definition of homer

Questions about homer in a sentence

How do you use homer in a sentence?
Homer is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The first baseman hit a homer to lead off the ninth.”
What is a short sentence with homer?
“Homer Simpson popularised the term "d'oh".”
What does homer mean?
Homer means a former Hebrew unit of dry volume, about equal to 230 L or 6+¹⁄₂ US bushels.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: homer (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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