dwelling

Definition:
1. Housing that someone is living in.
2. A house, flat/apartment, etc. where a person lives.

Use 'dwelling' in a sentence:

• 1. Some 3,500 new dwellings are planned for the area.
• 2. A near friend is better than a far dwelling kinsman.
• 3. The largest land-dwelling member of the weasel family is strong, tenacious, sharp-toothed and cunning.
• 4. There is no dwelling in the past or fretting about the future.
• 5. They sat in an aerial dwelling, and it flew with them through the air.
• 6. The recent survey found that 20 per cent of private-rented dwellings are unfit for human habitation.
• 7. The smoke betrays where the dwelling lies.
• 8. He occupies a three-story dwelling place on the Park Street.
• 9. We hiked the Grand Canyon, exploring Indian cliff dwellings.
• 10. The Dingiso, as the creature is also known, is a forest-dwelling marsupial with bold coloration that spends most of its time on the ground.
• 11. The present position of the house coincides with that of an earlier dwelling.
• 12. After dwelling in Rio for ten years, she moved to Lisbon.
• 13. Although many lines of evidence indicate that birds evolved from ground-dwelling theropod dinosaurs, some scientists remain unconvinced.
• 14. If so, the green algae would have been subjected to environmental pressures that resulted in adaptations that enhanced their potential to give rise to land-dwelling or organisms.
• 15. This comes in especially handy as it is tree-dwelling.
• 16. Their houses were workplaces as well as dwellings.
• 17. Dwelling on past events can consume a lot of time.
• 18. He has felt an influence dwelling always upon him like a curse.
• 19. Our stable abuts against his dwelling.
• 20. Dwellings in the mountains are few and far between.
• 21. You are mentally dwelling with error in your mind.
• 22. In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
• 23. The doctor knows that his friend is an independent man and likes to have his own dwelling.
• 24. Demographers reckon that three quarters of humanity could be city dwelling by 2050, with most of the increase coming in the fast growing towns of Asia and Africa.
• 25. 39 then hear from heaven, your dwelling place.
• 26. The one only dwelling on earth that she loves.
• 27. The young couple made their home in a mean dwelling.
• 28. Those two men are dwelling with us.
• 29. Very thrilling stories they were, too, to an earth-dwelling animal like Mole.
• 30. He was therefore honourably received, and a special dwelling was assigned him.
• 31. The first explorer is investigating the new dwelling.
• 32. It is high time to build a new dwelling.
• 33. A cave is not FOR dwelling.
• 34. Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr Heathcliff's dwelling.
• 35. So instead of dwelling on the past, they embrace the future.
• 36. Ancient people dug caves for their dwellings.
• 37. Their streamlined bodies, the absence of hind legs, and the presence of a fluke and blowhole cannot disguise their affinities with land dwelling mammals.
• 38. We passed one or two dwellings, but were not disposed to stop.
• 39. A group of sea dwelling people in Southeast Asia have evolved into better divers.
• 40. The development will consist of 66 dwellings and a number of offices.
• 41. Next time you have a problem, think about how you can improve the situation instead of dwelling on all the negative aspects.
• 42. The absence of an oxygen atmosphere on Mars and other planets in our solar system means that these planets also lack an ozone shield that would protect surface-dwelling life from UV radiation.