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.
