dwell
verb (used without object)
to live or stay as a permanent resident; reside.
had dwelt
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past perfectof dwell.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The argument is that if Newton had dwelt in his book on God’s role, he might not have done such a magnificent job of working out gravity’s role.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 14, 2014
Dina Abdel Fattah, a talk show host on the independent Tahrir channel questioned why the head of government had dwelt on the subject when Egypt was in a state of "darkness".
From Reuters ● Feb. 8, 2013
Throughout that time the French public had wandered freely in and out of the great palace where their "Father" the King, had dwelt "like a man in a glass house."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Spartakovka settlement near by, where factory workers had dwelt, also fell to the Germans.
From Time Magazine Archive
I had dwelt so long upon Claudius’s evil that I believed I knew what his next step would be.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
