Sample Sentences for

dwell

grouped by contextual meaning

(editor-reviewed)

Her students were ready to move on, but she dwelled on and on about Chapter 7.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997

I will not dwell on the experience because it causes us all terrible discomfort.  (source) Lois Lowry, The Giver, 1993

FREMEN: the free tribes of Arrakis, dwellers in the desert, remnants of the Zensunni Wanderers.†  (source) Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965

Your mother dwells on Harlaw, with her own sister.†  (source) George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, 1999

She dwelled on the long years Ammu would be put away because of them.†  (source) Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, 1997

Sartre was describing the twentieth-century city dweller.†  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

"Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness," he quoted.†  (source) Homer Hickam, October Sky, 1998

I didn't have time to dwell on my worries.  (source) Kiera Cass, The Selection, 2012

"She's fine," he said without dwelling on his wife.  (source) Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, 1976

How secret art thou who dwellest in the highest heavens in silence, O thou only great God, sprinkling with an unwearied Providence certain penal blindnesses upon such as have unbridled desires!†  (source) Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Essays, 1850

His quizzical blue eyes dwelt on her brown arms so deliberately that she closed her fists to hide the calluses on her palms.  (source) Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, 1958

<1> A Merchant whilom dwell'd at Saint Denise, That riche was, for which men held him wise.†  (source) Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, 1350

Their family has dwelled in that valley for ten generations.

You might belong in Gryffindor, Where dwell the brave at heart,  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997

As the great arctic explorer and Nobel laureate Fridtjof Nansen points out, "these remarkable voyages were …. undertaken chiefly from the wish to find lonely places, where these anchorites might dwell in peace, undisturbed by the turmoil and temptations of the world."  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

That the spirit of the Lord cannot dwell in an unclean vessel, and that no vessel is clean when it forsakes God and relies on man.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

The Illustrated Man looked left, found no pleasure in the Skeleton, who simply looked thinner; found no pleasure looking right to a Dwarf who blandly dwelt in squashed idiot madness.†  (source) Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes, 1962

"But value dwells not in particular will," said the Savage.  (source) Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932

You could imagine you were dwelling in marble halls, couldn't you?  (source) Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables, 1908

I do not know this, a cave dweller would have had a fire by now, a Cro-Magnon man would have a fire by now, but I don't know this.  (source) Gary Paulsen, Hatchet, 1987

Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan... (13:12)  (source) The Bible, Genesis, 1611

Seeing, I suppose, some expression in my face strange to him, he added, "Ah, sir, you dwellers in the city cannot enter into the feelings of the hunter."  (source) Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897

Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do, you are now our hands to do for us.  (source) Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, 1977

If I had thought about it, if I had dwelt on it, if I had become depressed and imagined the worst, then the worst would have happened.†  (source) John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1994

They believed that I was the monster that dwells in what they call the Chamber of Secrets.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998

We searched the entire valley and did not find her dwelling.

Go immediately to your dwelling at the conclusion of Training Hours each day.  (source) Lois Lowry, The Giver, 1993

I still didn't know what long-neglected dwelling that line referred to, or where to look for it.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

Fred had "rescued" the brilliant orange, fire-dwelling lizard from a Care of Magical Creatures class and it was now smouldering gently on a table surrounded by a knot of curious people.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998

Crumbling stone dwellings of the long-vanished Kayenta Anasazi, the creators of this rock art, nestle in protective nooks.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

That for stealing pumpkins from a field, and for kindling a fire in a dwelling they three shall be seated in the stocks from one hour before the Lecture till one hour after.  (source) Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, 1958

The first dwellings that the workers of their camp had built were almost ready to be occupied, and Sneed and Nadia were not too far down the list, and so by the end of autumn they could look forward to moving into a home of their own.  (source) Moshin Hamid, Exit West, 2017

They took several wrong turns and ended up at dead ends or at some ramshackle dwelling.  (source) Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing, 2018

The gutted structure crouches like a wounded animal amid a labyrinth of crumbling dwellings.†  (source) Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes, 2015

...and I came at long last to the dwelling of Saruman.  (source) J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954

Stone and earthen-walled dwellings built into the face of a rugged mountain flanked their left side.†  (source) Eric Blehm, Fearless, 2012

It was only on very rare occasions that one saw inside the dwelling-places of the Inner Party, or even penetrated into the quarter of the town where they lived.  (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949

Smoke rose from cooking fires at a few dwellings dotted here and there.†  (source) Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire, 2011