How to Use home range in a Sentence
home range
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The teens found in the Richmond home ranged in age from 14 to 16 years old.
—CBS News, 10 Mar. 2018
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The first of these is a new estimate for the sand cat’s home range.
—Nell Lewis, CNN, 2 May 2023
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But not before the bear prowls the perimeter of his home range.
—National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
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The species once had a home range that spanned from the Red Sea to eastern India.
—National Geographic, 20 Nov. 2019
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A year ago, these snakes were just doing their thing on their home range.
—Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 13 July 2021
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Still, bears’ home ranges can move from inside to outside the park.
—Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 May 2018
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That may have wiped out a species’ unique adaptations to its home range.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 21 May 2018
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The spiders climbing up the walls of the Gentrys’ home range in size from mere inches to more than 7 feet wide.
—Doug MacCash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 19 Oct. 2020
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Turtles have a home range and females often return to the same area to lay eggs.
—Jesse Leavenworth, Hartford Courant, 24 May 2022
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Its home range is about one-fourth to a half-mile in diameter.
—Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune, 4 Feb. 2021
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The homes range in size from 1.3 to five acres and feature electronic gate access.
—Lorraine Longhi, azcentral, 2 Apr. 2018
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Breeding season is over, the pups are out of the den and the dogs are roaming across their 116-square-mile home range with predatory brio.
—New York Times, 20 June 2022
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In the meager deserts of southern Namibia, brown hyenas maintain home ranges of up to 1,150 square miles.
—Christine Dell'amore, National Geographic, 14 June 2019
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These animals need a lot of space—their home range can encompass up to 600 square miles.
—Fox News, 10 Mar. 2020
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On the Alaska Peninsula, brown bear home ranges can extend as far as 100 square miles.
—Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 11 June 2018
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The typical cornfield is at least five acres, while a common hamster’s home range is less than a tenth of that size.
—Ben Crair, Smithsonian, 21 Feb. 2018
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Here are a few factors to consider when setting up your home range.
—The Editors, Outdoor Life, 22 Nov. 2020
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They’re often bumped out of their typical home range and travel miles away and on the opposite side of a ridge.
—Roger Phillips, idahostatesman, 18 Dec. 2017
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Big woods bucks are wanderers and may have a home range that extends for 10 miles in any direction.
—Hal Blood, Outdoor Life, 10 Nov. 2020
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The study, which appears in the Journal of Arid Environments, provides the largest dataset on the home range of sand cats ever recorded.
—Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 4 Apr. 2023
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Around the world, more communities sprawl into bears’ home ranges.
—WIRED, 25 July 2023
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Regular bees and wasps kill more people every year in the U.S. than Asian giant hornets do in their home range.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2021
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This suggests that before settling into a home range, males roam farther from where they were born.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2015
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The homes range from historic to new construction and are all within walking distance.
—Phil Marty, chicagotribune.com, 19 Nov. 2019
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These homes range from an average 5 bedrooms in El Paso to 4 in Greensboro.
—Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 23 Oct. 2019
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The current study was the first to describe home range size, movements, and habitat selection of Japanese rat snakes.
—Susan D'agostino, Wired, 28 Aug. 2021
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From my experience, a buck in the Big Woods only uses only about 10 percent of his home range.
—Hal Blood, Outdoor Life, 10 Nov. 2020
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Drinking sessions are a rare treat for the chimpanzees of Bossou, partly because raffia palms are fairly scarce in the chimpanzee’s home range.
—K. N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 9 June 2015
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Wolverines live in extremely low densities and have an average home range of about 500-square miles for an adult male.
—Abi Cole, Outdoor Life, 12 Mar. 2021
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Other posh amenities inside the home range from a gym and spa sauna to an office, home theater, an office, and a stunning home bar with marble features.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 16 May 2023
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