How To Use Dwell on In A Sentence

Though some like to dwell on that horror while others ignore it entirely, I believe it is only true to the remarkableness of America if we acknowledge both the horror of that age and the unique American triumph in overcoming it. Bart Motes: Hillary Clinton for Supreme Court
No one is urged to dwell on the fact that the day's fireworks displays are symbolic of an armed revolution against tyranny and colonialism.
The lack of decoration or furniture made his mind dwell on what could be happening outside his cell, and none of it could be good news.
You tend to dwell on the past and rake up old issues which open old wounds and bring fresh pain in relationships.
This is a tendency to dwell on what ruffly garment was worn, the precise glossy shade of a woman's hair, and so on.

When life is not going to plan, look for solutions rather than dwell on problems. The Sun
I won't dwell on it with the players. Times, Sunday Times
It will soon be well known that the surest way to inflict pain upon you is to extol the excellences or to dwell on the happiness of others, and your failings will be considered an amusing subject for jesting observation to experimentalize upon. The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends
It's not something to dwell on. The Sun
I shut out the memory which was too painful to dwell on.
She couldn't help but dwell on her failures, screw-ups, and her crummy life.
Everyday life is much more interesting to me than big, abstract theories. Through my poetry, I aim to reflect our times. I don’t want to dwell on the olden days, although it is a period I mention often. Gulzar
So we can dwell on his failings, or we can lionize him.
No one is urged to dwell on the fact that the day's fireworks displays are symbolic of an armed revolution against tyranny and colonialism.
Now, it would have been far better to have passed on to the land beyond or swing back to earth again, for a borderland is the most unsafe land in which to dwell on account of its roaming herds of wild beasts, marauding, vicious men, and dangers too numerous to mention. Autobiography and work of Bishop M.F. Jamison, D.D. ("Uncle Joe") : editor, publisher, and Church Extension Secretary : a narration of his whole career from the cradle to the Bishopric of the Colored M. E. Church in America,
No need to dwell on the legendary beauty of the cornerpieces, the acme of art, wherein one can distinctly discern each of the four evangelists in turn presenting to each of the four masters his evangelical symbol, a bogoak sceptre, a North American puma (a far nobler king of beasts than the British article, be it said in passing), a Kerry calf and Ulysses
When life is not going to plan, look for solutions rather than dwell on problems. The Sun
Oblivion from outer space is a suitably millennial topic, and is something for all the worriers and doomsters to dwell on now the world didn't end last Saturday and the Millennium Bug turned out to be about as threatening as a ladybird.
There is no time to dwell on it. The Sun
Why dwell on something that makes you unhappy? Times, Sunday Times
But while they urged wayward men to dwell on their tearful, praying mothers, crusade leaders marginalized the women in their midst. Christianity Today
I won't dwell on it with the players. Times, Sunday Times
We dwell on the past and worry about the future. The Sun
I can't dwell on the past. Times, Sunday Times
I didn't dwell on not having my own because I had a gorgeous boy I knew would sweep a girl off her feet and give me all the grandbabies I want.
My mother was never the type to dwell on the things that upset her so I wasn't surprised to find her changing the subject and shifting the focus onto me.
While pundits continue to dwell on the supposedly collapsing poll numbers for Palin and trumpet the erosion of her presidential ambitions, the former Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee was abroad, buttressing the one area seen as a major weakness in Palin's ability to project herself as a national political leader, foreign policy. Sheldon Filger: Palin Scores on the World Stage, Does India and Israel in One Stride
He's too selfdeprecating to dwell on the fact that his success has been hard-won. Times, Sunday Times
In everyday society we do not dwell on a heterosexual person's bedroom habits.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. J. K. Rowling
I will not dwell on that, but I think it needs to be emphasised that the availability of information to winegrowers and exporters - the people who want to get out there and do the job of selling our product to the world - is very, very important.
Others will dwell on the darker aspects of his character and methods. Times, Sunday Times
He did dwell on the unfulfilled promise of his playing career. Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough
I'd rather not dwell on the past.
Now I knew an ingredient may be dodgy and no matter how good or bad the meal tasted, I was going to dwell on the fact it was irrevocably, Old Lard.
Everyday life is much more interesting to me than big, abstract theories. Through my poetry, I aim to reflect our times. I don’t want to dwell on the olden days, although it is a period I mention often. Gulzar
I would fain dwell on each of these honored names, but must pass on to others no less worthy of honor. Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
Something to dwell on for the one in four passengers whose flights were delayed last year. Times, Sunday Times
Nor did she permit her mind to dwell on an image of Rain so successfully buried she remembered it only in traitorous dreams. THE THORN BIRDS
Don't dwell on handwriting and spelling, but read what your child actually has to say.
The pattern seems to be, and fast changing circumstances dictate this more than anything, not to dwell on problems.
All that fighting is in the past, so let's get real and live in the present and not dwell on facts which get in the way of the action.
Instead of preferring to dwell on the unutterable ecstasy, contentment, and bliss of the experience, he is far more anxious to emphasise the fact that "all that pleased earst now seemes to paine. Mysticism in English Literature
You can be really upset and dwell on something or you can put all the good memories in one song. The Sun
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer. Denis Waitley
The musicals of the '30s are enjoyable, in part because they don't dwell on misfortune and squalor and poverty.
It seems that simians have the run of the place while humans dwell on the fringes like packs of wild dogs.
Something to dwell on for the one in four passengers whose flights were delayed last year. Times, Sunday Times
Everyday life is much more interesting to me than big, abstract theories. Through my poetry, I aim to reflect our times. I don’t want to dwell on the olden days, although it is a period I mention often. Gulzar
How I shall henceforth dwell on the blessed hours when, not long since, I saw that benignant face, the clear eyes, the silently smiling mouth, the form yet upright in its great ageto the very last, with so much spring and cheeriness, and such an absence of decrepitude, that even the term venerable hardly seemd fitting. By Emerson’s Grave. Specimen Days
Instead of allowing himself to dwell on his condition, he's devoted himself to public service and veteran affairs.
It's important to dwell on the positive in life, because tragedy lurks around the corner.
Give yourself the time to dwell on the miracle that has just taken place.
One could dwell on the fact that it contains several inherent contradictions and that the numbers implicit in the proposals don't add up.
Millennials would rather dwell on strengths and opportunities. Christianity Today
Yet she and other politicians prefer not to dwell on the gloomy prognosis. Times, Sunday Times
George Morison mentioned it once in passing, but without evoking the slightest interest among the others, who had been content to dwell on miasmatic fumes emanating from the rank isthmian landscape. The Path Between the Seas
We'll not dwell on the gory details. Times, Sunday Times
David Bordwell on a particular sort of shot: I started to call it mug-shot framing, but I found that art historian Heinrich Wölfflin had called it planar or planimetric composition. GreenCine Daily: Weekend shorts.
But we won't dwell on that. Times, Sunday Times
To dwell on their technical excellences (the chief of which is the unerring precision with which the catalectic and acatalectic lines are arranged and interchanged) has a certain air of impertinence about it. A History of Elizabethan Literature
It's the same at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where botanist Laura Jull said people notice but don't dwell on the smell of the campus ginkgoes. Laudator Temporis Acti
That is not a subject I want to dwell on.
Years later, the sacking still makes the normally placid Burt uncharacteristically testy, but he doesn't dwell on it.
They clung to it amid sufferings too shocking to dwell on; [9] they clung to it under such a serfhood as made the rapacity of their conquerors interested in retaining them on the soil. Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry
In explicating Bertrand Russell's work on cravings and physiological desire, Burke draws on the historical research he did to dwell on the intensity and tenacity of a physiological craving.
I shut out the memory which was too painful to dwell on.
Around the time, many small business prospects, customers and clients will dwell on cost.
If only we could negotiate our differences rather than dwell on the anxieties of difference.
I'm not going to dwell on it, except to say that I forgot everything under pressure and he beat me easily.
But why dwell on such things when the sun has returned with renewed resolve, teasing blooms from the helter-skelter of bare branches?
Xylem cavitation was not a research topic in the 1960s, hence there was no reason for Scholander to dwell on this issue.
Mrs. Carnaby loved a good dinner right well, a dinner unplagued by hospitable cares; when a woodcock was her own to dwell on, and pretty little teeth might pick a pretty little bone at ease. Mary Anerley
The book touches briefly on the issue of genetic predispositions, but does not dwell on it.
The last day of Dwell on Design brought fogless, downright hot weather to San Francisco. 2006 September | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World
She couldn ' t afford to dwell on what had been done to her; there was more at stake than that. THE LAST TEMPTATION
Mr. Kaufmann describes his voice as "dark" and "baritonal" but prefers not to dwell on assessing his sound. The Smoldering Tenor
You reflect on how the previous season has gone for a day or two, but you don't dwell on it too much.
The last thing you want to do is to dwell on your past. Banish Anxiety - how to stop worrying and take charge of your life
Mahmud, who studied at Al Wasliyah University - albeit for two semesters - does not like to dwell on his disability.
But I am not going to dwell on or prejudge the issue.
I dwell on these particulars because, in confounding the different periods of the riches and poverty of the gold-washings of Brazil, it is still affirmed in works treating of the commerce of the precious metals, that a quantity of gold equivalent to four millions of piastres (5800 kilogrammes of gold*) flows into Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer. Denis Waitley
Not to dwell on the food-shopping angle, but imagine the convenience of bagging your groceries as you go up and down the aisles, then having the checkout device interrogate your entire shopping cart.
It would be refreshing if he were to concentrate on the brighter sides of human behaviour and not dwell on dubious national traits to vent his grumpiness with the world around him.
They do not dwell on the trivialities or the details.
Yet his determination not to dwell on the past is a key part of his rehabilitation. Times, Sunday Times
He says he's not going to dwell on the criticism he's gotten after calling Barack Obama a "light-skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect.
Don't dwell on the past
It's not something to dwell on. The Sun
You reflect on how the previous season has gone for a day or two, but you don't dwell on it too much.
Then I looked, and I heard an eagle flying in midheaven, saying with a loud voice, 'Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the tree angels who are about to sound.' Sound Politics: Faith-based initiatives
I shut out the memory which was too painful to dwell on.
It is a waste of time to dwell on it. POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
But we won't dwell on that. Times, Sunday Times
To dwell on the negative of the situation was pointless, so I sought to find the good.
For that matter, history books that dwell on stories of rajas and maharajas who met at a tea break might be recalled.
It's easy to imagine that the 12-year-old heroine of "The Mighty Miss Malone" (Wendy Lamb Books/Random House, 320 pages, $15.99) might become irate were people to dwell on her race; for surely (she'd say) what matters is her loquacity, intellect and "all-encompassing and pervasive humility. The Book That Broke the Color Line
All that fighting is in the past, so let's get real and live in the present and not dwell on facts which get in the way of the action.
The eye might be delayed by a desire to rest on the rocks, which here and there rose from the dell with massive or spiry fronts, or it might dwell on the noble, though ruined tower, which was here beheld in all its dignity, frowning from a promontory over the river. Waverley
Yet his determination not to dwell on the past is a key part of his rehabilitation. Times, Sunday Times
For that matter, history books that dwell on stories of rajas and maharajas who met at a tea break might be recalled.
I can't dwell on the past. Times, Sunday Times
In practicing the neglect of the sensations, one should not allow his mind to dwell on the possibility that he is overlooking something serious, but rather on the danger of his becoming "hipped," a prey to his own doubts and fears, and unable to accomplish anything in life beyond catering to his own morbid fancies. Why Worry?
Everyday life is much more interesting to me than big, abstract theories. Through my poetry, I aim to reflect our times. I don’t want to dwell on the olden days, although it is a period I mention often. Gulzar
The story doesn't dwell on the war's rights or wrongs, but on a bunch of free-spirited women making the best of their situation.
He prefers not to dwell on his parents' deaths, but he talks freely about his upbringing in Falkirk.
Mrs. Carnaby loved a good dinner right well, a dinner unplagued by hospitable cares; when a woodcock was her own to dwell on, and pretty little teeth might pick a pretty little bone at ease. Mary Anerley
I {p. 128} dwell on this matter because it was always his favorite tenet, in contradiction to what he called the cant of sonneteers, that there is no necessary connection between genius and an aversion or contempt for any of the common duties of life; he thought, on the contrary, that to spend some fair portion of every day in any matter of fact occupation is good for the higher faculties themselves in the upshot. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. J. K. Rowling
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer. Denis Waitley
To dwell on this, however, would be to miss the point.
He left that image to dwell on and returned to it after the hard-nosed business audit was over and after he had walloped Hague and the shadow cabinet.
He's too selfdeprecating to dwell on the fact that his success has been hard-won. Times, Sunday Times
Rather than dwell on poor academic performance, it said, teachers are taught to accentuate the positive.
You don't want to dwell on the past and get stuck in it. Christianity Today
I still remember the day the tape was made, but before I could dwell on it, I tossed it out the window and finished the rest of my packing in a state of fuming.
There is no time to dwell on it. The Sun
The mood turns particularly sombre in the closing tracks, in which slower tempos, brooding bottlenecks and a doomy swirl of synthesisers lend gravitas to songs that dwell on destruction and death.
I am no mathematician, so rather than dwell on that let's stick with verbalisation. 1. MajorityRights.com (main blog)
Why dwell on something that makes you unhappy? Times, Sunday Times
That limping at the end of races and the fact that he wears black strapping - similar to that once used by athletes to ease the cursed runner's knee - has left fans somewhat mystified for he has refused to dwell on the matter.
Anyways, lets not dwell on the inhuman ways in which some humans treat their brothers.
I suppose it makes no sense to question these things, for I'm simply a man, and I have no time to dwell on such trivialities.
One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate.
I love to dwell on this time, because I re-create my happiness and because while I am in it I need not go on. TESTIMONIES
She couldn ' t afford to dwell on what had been done to her; there was more at stake than that. THE LAST TEMPTATION
Many yachties who have visited Trinidad dwell on the negative and overstate the crime problem, but everything is a function of numbers.
You can be really upset and dwell on something or you can put all the good memories in one song. The Sun
The last thing you want to do is to dwell on your past. Banish Anxiety - how to stop worrying and take charge of your life
No need to dwell on the legendary beauty of the cornerpieces, the acme of art, wherein one can distinctly discern each of the four evangelists in turn presenting to each of the four masters his evangelical symbol, a bogoak sceptre, a North American puma (a far nobler king of beasts than the British article, be it said in passing), Ulysses
Although as a young man he didn't tend to dwell on the dangers facing him, the devastation and suffering of the conflict has left Lord Harewood strongly opposed to warfare.
In the light of the gastraea theory it is hardly necessary to dwell on the defects of this earlier view and the erroneous conclusions drawn from it. The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
How I shall henceforth dwell on the blessed hours when, not long since, I saw that benignant face, the clear eyes, the silently smiling mouth, the form yet upright in its great age -- to the very last, with so much spring and cheeriness, and such an absence of decrepitude, that even the term venerable hardly seem'd fitting. Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose
Everyday life is much more interesting to me than big, abstract theories. Through my poetry, I aim to reflect our times. I don’t want to dwell on the olden days, although it is a period I mention often. Gulzar
I'd rather not dwell on the past.
But if my Florence wasn't omnipotent any more... That wasn't a thought to dwell on. TIME OF THE WOLF
She didn't have time to dwell on it however, before the pain from her wound surged through her, driving her back to her knees with an anguished cry.
It would be easy to dwell on the animals that Tasmania has lost, but I prefer to give thanks for what remains.
Millennials would rather dwell on strengths and opportunities. Christianity Today
He knows he's not supposed to dwell on what was or agonize about what might be.
We dwell on the past and worry about the future. The Sun
If only we could negotiate our differences rather than dwell on the anxieties of difference.
It is a waste of time to dwell on it. POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
Though he describes several ways intuition can lead people astray, he doesn't really dwell on how often that happens.

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