dwell
verb (used without object)
to live or stay as a permanent resident; reside.
had been dwelling
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past perfect progressiveof dwell.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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For Raisuli, son of the desert, had captured Ion Perdicaris, U. S. citizen, son of a Greek who had been dwelling in Morocco for some 20 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
The thought that it and she had been dwelling in his mind produced in her breast an unaccountable agitation.
From The Iron Furrow by Henry A. Botkin
She felt as though for the last three months she had been dwelling in some dreadful unknown world, with only boy Sandy to cling to out of the whole unnerving chaos.
From The Moon out of Reach by Margaret Pedler
Her scornful eyes had been dwelling on the one figure she had recognized: the figure of Sim Squires, whom it had never occurred to her to distrust.
From The Roof Tree by Lee F. Conrey
When one of the inner Voices denied this charge, another pressed it home by nailing the precise incident on which her heart had been dwelling.
From The Street Called Straight by Orson Lowell
