Dwelt can be categorized as a verb.
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| dwell - originate (in); "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country" | ||
| dwell - exist or be situated within; "Strange notions inhabited her mind" | ||
| dwell - inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods" | ||
| dwell - think moodily or anxiously about something | ||
| dwell - come back to; "Don't dwell on the past"; "She is always harping on the same old things" |
| # | Sentence | ||
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| 1. | verb | The Prime Minister dwelt upon the financial crisis. | |
| 2. | verb | In his speech he dwelt on the importance of education. | |
| 3. | verb | He dwelt on the pleasure of the past. | |
| 4. | verb | He dwelt on the complexities of modern life. | |
| 5. | verb | He dwelt on an unpleasant subject for two hours. | |
| 6. | verb | She dwelt on the miserable days she spent there. | |
| 7. | verb | He dwelt for a time in France, then went to Italy. | |
| 8. | verb | I dwelt in Quezon City. | |
| 9. | verb | A few miles from the Tontlawald was a large village, where dwelt a peasant who had recently married a young wife. | |
| 10. | verb | Once upon a time there dwelt in the land of Erin a young man who was seeking a wife, and of all the maidens round about none pleased him as well as the only daughter of a farmer. | |
| 11. | verb | I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and in roaming the fields and groves of the region near my ancestral home. | |
| 12. | verb | She followed him through the forest paths, as did many of her sister nymphs, explaining as they walked all the mysteries of the gigantic wood and the habits and nature of the living things which dwelt beneath its shade. | |
| 13. | verb | Her dress was composed of white satin and Brussels lace, and her hair arranged with a profusion of jewels, whose lustre made a strange contrast to the deadly paleness of her complexion, and to the trouble which dwelt in her unsettled eye. | |
| 14. | verb | So Abram removing his tent came and dwelt by the vale of Mambre, which is in Hebron: and he built there an altar to the Lord. | |
| 15. | verb | And he passed over to Salem, a city of the Sichemites, which is in the land of Canaan, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria: and he dwelt by the town. |
| Sentence | |
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| verb | |
| The Prime Minister dwelt upon the financial crisis. | |
| In his speech he dwelt on the importance of education. | |
| He dwelt on the pleasure of the past. | |
| He dwelt on the complexities of modern life. | |
| He dwelt on an unpleasant subject for two hours. | |
| She dwelt on the miserable days she spent there. | |
| He dwelt for a time in France, then went to Italy. | |
| I dwelt in Quezon City. | |
| A few miles from the Tontlawald was a large village, where dwelt a peasant who had recently married a young wife. | |
| Once upon a time there dwelt in the land of Erin a young man who was seeking a wife, and of all the maidens round about none pleased him as well as the only daughter of a farmer. | |
| I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and in roaming the fields and groves of the region near my ancestral home. | |
| She followed him through the forest paths, as did many of her sister nymphs, explaining as they walked all the mysteries of the gigantic wood and the habits and nature of the living things which dwelt beneath its shade. | |
| Her dress was composed of white satin and Brussels lace, and her hair arranged with a profusion of jewels, whose lustre made a strange contrast to the deadly paleness of her complexion, and to the trouble which dwelt in her unsettled eye. | |
| So Abram removing his tent came and dwelt by the vale of Mambre, which is in Hebron: and he built there an altar to the Lord. | |
| And he passed over to Salem, a city of the Sichemites, which is in the land of Canaan, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria: and he dwelt by the town. | |