Example Sentences

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El Paso can never fully move on from what happened five years ago — but that doesn’t mean people are dwelling on it.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2024

And another feature suggests that Instagram will "nudge" users towards other types of content "if people are dwelling on one topic for a while".

From BBC • Dec. 7, 2021

Thank you Nicolas Kristof for once again trying to awaken the conscience of those who are dwelling in a state of oblivion.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2018

Their actions, character, and — yes, I think I can use this word — spirit have literally helped form your neural pathways, so that the way they thought, their little idiosyncrasies, are dwelling in you.

From Salon • Oct. 29, 2017

Here you are dwelling alone, far from human help if you should require it.

From For Woman's Love by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte