dwelled

variants or dwelt
past tense of dwell

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dwelled
Verb
  • Baidu, whose Hong Kong shares have gained nearly 59% this year, reported a drop in second-quarter revenue last month as its core advertising business struggled and returns from AI investments remained limited.
    Dylan Butts, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
  • In real life, Barkovskaya found the Infiniment fragrances remained unchanged on her skin for an entire day, and the smell did indeed stay on her clothes for the full 30 hours.
    Megan McIntyre, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • South Florida has lived these lousy afternoons all week — and Friday’s forecast calls for more of the same.
    Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Steve has more than 40 years of food industry experience in his native Hong Kong and in the Bay Area, where the couple lived and owned various eateries for two decades.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Her mother, who had worked as a waitress but stayed at home after her husband’s death, encouraged her interests.
    Clare Malone, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • This time, the bar stayed and Duplantis had his 14th world record.
    Zack Pierce, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In the summer of 2024, hundreds of people gathered in Allegawaho Memorial Heritage Park in Council Grove, KS–about 80 miles southwest of Lawrence–a park owned by Kaw Nation that includes one of the three Kaw villages where Kanza people resided from the 1840s to 1872.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • While the painters might have been from different worlds — Nicholson was born in 1893 and resided in Cumbria, while Cranston, born in 1969, lives in Scotland — their work both revels in intimacy’s imperfections.
    Violet Goldstone, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Dwelled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dwelled. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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