How to Use home computer in a Sentence

home computer

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  • Delete them all from your home computer, and give the thumb drive to him.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 29 Aug. 2019
  • In 1997, Joe started to spend a lot of time on the home computer.
    — Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 10 July 2022
  • There’s a fair chance that your phone cost more than your home computer.
    — PCMAG, 30 Mar. 2022
  • They're not meant to be run by any random nerd on a home computer.
    — Paul Ford, Wired, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Find your home computer in this section, click it, and choose Share Screen.
    — David Nield, Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2023
  • People fretted again with the advent of the radio, the TV, and home computers.
    — Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The crowd is awakened by the scene, which gave people more to think about than just buying a home computer.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 12 Feb. 2023
  • From her home computer, the zoo's curator for mammals sees Bibi on the ground.
    — Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 18 Jan. 2018
  • The man said that two days earlier, he was somehow locked out of his home computer.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 29 July 2022
  • But those bans didn’t work, in part because students could simply use the tools on their phones and home computers.
    — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The road back to listening to your favorite CDs starts with loading the CD into the home computer.
    — Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2018
  • In some states students are less likely to have access to a home computer.
    — Moriah Balingit, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2018
  • In the early 1980s, William A. Porter had an outlandish idea: People should be able to trade stocks via their home computers.
    — James R. Hagerty, wsj.com, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The Replicator, on the other hand, was not much larger than a milk crate and was easy for anyone with a home computer to use.
    — John Brandon, Popular Mechanics, 17 Nov. 2020
  • By the time everyone’s smartphone, tablet and home computer are joined to the network, that’s a good chunk of the 32-limit taken up.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The 400 was a strange beast: a hybrid home computer and game console that filled neither role well enough to hit the sweet spot Atari intended.
    — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Friends tell us that in the 1980s Noble designed the interface chip for one of the earliest home computers, and the chip was named after her.
    — David Begnaud, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2024
  • But none of this would be possible without a piece of hardware many of us take for granted in our own home computers.
    — Brian Fung, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2017
  • Ali got into Khan’s home computer and pulled data on his last call and the last known location of him, which was in Prince George’s County.
    — Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2022
  • One contractor mailed home computer hard drives filled with secrets from Afghanistan to Texas.
    — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2023
  • And why assume that poor households have access to home computers?
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 May 2020
  • And kids can access social media or videos from home computers and tablets during their free time.
    — Markham Heid, Time, 12 Oct. 2017
  • The eLearning course, taken on a home computer or mobile device, is a video course about 40 minutes long.
    — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 26 June 2024
  • And fans anywhere could wager on a Del Mar race through their home computer or mobile device.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2021
  • One of Jose’s relatives found a reference to a will on Jose’s home computer but did not know how to gain access to the document.
    — Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Gone are the days of anonymously mining bitcoin on your home computer.
    — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 12 June 2019
  • Imagine buying a new car, at your home computer, in 19 minutes.
    — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 29 Aug. 2021
  • It can be flown on your home computer or laptop in the X-Plane simulator today.
    — Dan Sloat, Robb Report, 26 Feb. 2024
  • That possibility propels Kalil through his long days, which begin with a predawn run and end at 1 a.m. in front of his home computer.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 20 May 2020
  • Street gangs ramped up some white collar crimes, such as check fraud and credit card fraud, more than 25 years ago, thanks to home computers and other technology.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 29 Mar. 2024

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