[ UK /dwˈɛl/ ]
[ US /ˈdwɛɫ/ ]
VERB
  1. exist or be situated within
    Strange notions inhabited her mind
  2. be an inhabitant of or reside in
    deer are populating the woods
    this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean
    People lived in Africa millions of years ago
    The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted
  3. originate (in)
    The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country
  4. come back to
    Don't dwell on the past
    She is always harping on the same old things
  5. think moodily or anxiously about something
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How To Use dwell In A Sentence

  • A few fields have the remains of small sunken stone dwellings, intimate as those at Skara Brae.
  • Although in traditional practices of visualization, eidetic images of a divinity or his paradisal dwelling were constructed in the mind, these visions were not visible to the eyes.
  • No doubt some of these are metrosexuals, those city-dwelling gents with more than enough disposable income to spend on clothes, restaurants, the latest gadgets, exotic holidays and eyebrow waxing.
  • So of course city-dwellers voted for someone who promised more government welfare.
  • Shyness, performance anxiety seemed never to have dwelled in him.
  • And she, warm with what Dick had just told of him, pleasured at the goodly sight of him, dwelling with her eyes on the light, high poise of head, the careless, sun-sanded hair, and the lightness, almost debonaireness, of his carriage despite his weight of body and breadth of shoulders. CHAPTER XXIII
  • Holding the chain railing, we followed our leader and had up-close encounters with yellow tails, sergeant majors, blue tang, trumpet fish, and other reef dwellers.
  • I feel pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self. Chapter 1
  • Wind energy and solar power could be harnessed to heat the dwellings and provide enough energy for daily needs.
  • How wise, too, is the sandwort in its choice of a dwelling-place! The Foot-path Way
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