house cat
- a variation of housecat.
Example Sentences
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Leonardo da Vinci considered the house cat the most perfect creature on earth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
A house cat named Smokey wouldn’t come out from under the bed, and two feral cats, Blackie and Half Mustache, were on the loose.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2025
A photo shared by the Lee County Sheriff’s Office shows the predator willingly curled up in deputy Vincent Lopez’s arms like a 30-pound house cat.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2024
Ms Sexton and her husband will be moving to Bridgend soon, meaning Daisy "might have to be a house cat" from now on, she laughed.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2023
She told me we could always get another cat, and now Quixote was going to be a wild cat, which was much more fun than being a house cat.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
