Example Sentences

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Since then, he has dwelt alone, “as a hermit crab,” in a hut among snowy mountains.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 22, 2016

For years, however, the Endowment for the Humanities' budget has dwelt far below the 1979 high of $390 million, adjusted for inflation, before significant cuts in the 1980s.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2015

But this is a Richard who seems incapable of any genuine human relationship and who talks of "the blind cave of eternal night" as if he has dwelt in it all his life.

From The Guardian • Jul. 25, 2012

Quirky, loud and unpredictable, college radio has dwelt for a half-century at the left of the dial, a youthful counterpart to public radio.

From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2011

It is always sad to leave the places where one has dwelt.

From The Secret of Sarek by Leblanc, Maurice