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Examples of house cat in a Sentence
the house cat at the Cheshire Cat Bookstore has the dual responsibility of being mascot and mouser
Recent Examples on the Web
Not to mention the purrs that greet them from Fig and Newton, the hospital’s two house cats.
—Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 25 Feb. 2024
Since then, it's been found in a range of animals, including a bottlenose dolphin off the coast of Florida in March 2022 and 29 house cats in Poland in June 2023.
—Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
Black-footed cats are smaller than a typical house cat, weighing between 2 and 6 pounds on average.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
In Oregon, authorities confirmed the infected person caught the plague from their house cat.
—Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2024
Tiger, the house cat, shows up, sitting in Josh Brolin’s lap.
—Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2024
Telling a wolf track or a coyote track from a domestic dog track can be difficult, as can telling a house cat track from that of a mountain lion kitten.
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 7 Feb. 2024
As both predator and prey, resting at a high vantage point allows cats to eye their potential dinner while avoiding becoming someone else’s (yes, this intuition persists even for house cats whose meals get delivered in a dish).
—Colleen Grablick, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
Like house cats, wildcats prey on a variety of small animals, such as rabbits, rodents and birds.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1607, in the meaning defined above
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“House cat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/house%20cat. Accessed 16 Jun. 2024.
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