dwelt

Example Sentences

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Indeed, commentators seem to have dwelt on little else.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

That song opened Friday night's encore, which dwelt largely on their 90s material, including Let Down - a deep cut that's had a new lease of life on TikTok - and the epic Paranoid Android.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025

Television pioneer Norman Lear, who died this month at the age of 101, told me three years ago that he dwelt not on what he’d done but on what he wanted to do next.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2023

Bethany: True — it represents a nadir of D.A.A.M.’s cinematic experience, not to be dwelt upon further.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2023

There were fifty of them, all of them daughters of Danaüs, one of Io’s descendants, who dwelt by the Nile.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton