[ UK /dwˈɛlɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈdwɛɫɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. housing that someone is living in
    they raise money to provide homes for the homeless
    he built a modest dwelling near the pond
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How To Use dwelling 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Therefore, five 11m long cantilevers were created to allow the total number of dwellings to reach 100 while keeping to the planners’ preferred footprint.
  • The process ends with faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ, spiritual rebirth and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
  • The huddle of poor dwellings, too small to be named a village, clings plastered like martens' nests against rocks, high above a green river.
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