All 8 Uses

dwell
in
Where the Crawdads Sing
(Edited)

Just like their whiskey, the marsh dwellers bootlegged their own laws—not like those burned onto stone tablets or inscribed on documents, but deeper ones, stamped in their genes.
p. 8.6

dwellers = people living there
There were no roads in Colored Town, just trails leading off through the woods this way and that to different family dwellings.
p. 82.2

dwellings = homes
He could barely hear the low churn of an outboard motor coming their way, probably a fisherman or marsh dweller headed to town.
p. 155.6

dweller = someone who lives in a place
They took several wrong turns and ended up at dead ends or at some ramshackle dwelling.
p. 175.1

dwelling = home
He turned his outsized pickup onto the track and cruised quietly toward the dwelling, easing to a stop fifty feet from the door.
p. 175.3 *
Lately, a few vague thoughts of marriage to Chase had formed in her mind, but she had not dared dwell on them.
p. 190.1 *

dwell = focus (let attention stay)
Never would she have taken a barefoot marsh dweller as a daughter-in-law.
p. 316.9 *

dweller = someone who lives in a place
She insisted on keeping the kitchen as it was and the exterior unpainted, so that the dwelling, more of a cabin now, remained weathered and real.
p. 360.2

dwelling = home

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)