All 4 Uses

dwell
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Subsistence farming, cotton-growing, basket-weaving, the chopping and selling of mesquite branches to white town-dwellers for firewood—these were the hard features of survival for most Pima Indians during Ira's boyhood.†
Chpt 2. *
They preserved their culture and their religious values in the two-room rented dwellings where they lived under the steel mills' glare, each little apartment building a link in the improvised chain of a new community.†
Chpt 2. *
One of the first items she unpacked in their new dwelling was a copy of the photo.†
Chpt 17.
Eventually he bought a dwelling of his own: a room in an abandoned barracks that during the war had housed Japanese-Americans who had been relocated.†
Chpt 17.

Definitions:

(1) (dwell as in: Don't dwell on it.)
to think, communicate, or let attention stay on (or return to) something for a prolonged period
(2) (dwell as in: It dwells in the forest.)
make one's home in; or to live in; or to stay (in a place)
(3) (dwelling as in: a modest dwelling)
a house or shelter in which someone lives
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)