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

A strong place and wonderful was Isengard, and long it had been beautiful; and there great lords had dwelt, the wardens of Gondor upon the West, and wise men that watched the stars.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien