How to Use house cat in a Sentence
house cat
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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
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In Oregon, authorities confirmed the infected person caught the plague from their house cat.
—Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2024
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At 8 pounds, the fox is not much larger than a house cat.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
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Tiger, the house cat, shows up, sitting in Josh Brolin’s lap.
—Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2024
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In life, those dinosaurs ranged in size from house cat to T. rex.
—Anna Gibbs, Quanta Magazine, 20 Mar. 2023
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In the story, both God and the Devil are sent to Earth, in the bodies of chunky house cats.
—Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2023
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These house cats have been clocked at speeds of up to thirty miles per hour.
—Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
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As adults, blue duikers can weigh seven to 20 pounds, about the size of a house cat.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2022
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Found nowhere else but the Channel Islands, the island fox is about the size of a house cat.
—Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
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There's even a house cat named Pilou roaming the halls.
—Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 11 Mar. 2022
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The other black cat, the jaguarundi, is much closer in size to a house cat than a jaguar.
—Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 17 June 2023
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They are said to look like a cross between a raccoon, a house cat and a small bear cub.
—Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2018
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Maxing out at about 27 miles per hour, that’s just under the top speed of a house cat.
—Katrina Miller, Wired, 3 Aug. 2021
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The farm's pig races feature cute piglets not that much larger than a house cat.
—Jack Schnedler, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2022
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An opossum is the size of a house cat, is nocturnal and lives in the forest.
—Heloise, Washington Post, 22 June 2019
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Red pandas are considered full-grown around two years of age and reach the size of a fluffy house cat.
—Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2022
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Until a few years ago, Bagel was a common house cat with a small circle of friends.
—Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 11 June 2019
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At least one light-colored house cat on the prowl was mistaken for the caracal.
—Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 15 Oct. 2021
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Red pandas, much smaller than black and white pandas, grow to about the size of large house cats, with long bushy tails.
—USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2020
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Still, the only reason they would have been exposed to those diseases in the first place would have been from house cats.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
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That car in the winner’s circle had about as much to do with your Monte Carlo as a cheetah does to a house cat.
—Andy Mikonis, chicagotribune.com, 15 Feb. 2018
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Bobcat kittens are larger than house cat, and their tails, of course, are bobbed.
—Matthew Martinez, star-telegram, 8 May 2018
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Cheetah-cub’ with spring-loaded legs to mimic the gait of its namesake at a house cat’s size.
—David L. Hu, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2018
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While this is true about cats in general, house cats are an alien species to the Western Hemisphere.
—Alaska Dispatch News, 21 July 2017
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The cat, though, is just 25 pounds, bigger than a house cat, but smaller than a mountain lion.
—Ed Lavandera, CNN, 6 Feb. 2023
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Two were sleeping, sprawled like giant house cats, but a third sat up and watched us through narrowed eyes.
—Tayari Jones, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2023
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Life in the South is far better for Southern house cats than for Northern felines.
—Zoë Gowen, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2016
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Cats didn’t evolve on the island, and the history of these elusive felines—twice the size of house cats—has long been a mystery.
—Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 10 Mar. 2020
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An ornery house cat named Tiger is laid low by an enlarged bladder but keeps trying to live up to his name.
—Mark Athitakis, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2018
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The ocelot is a midsize cat — larger than a house cat but smaller than a bobcat, according to the zoo.
—Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
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