How to Use dwell in a Sentence

dwell

verb
  • The Fever do not have much time to dwell on the tough loss.
    Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 15 May 2021
  • But the film doesn’t dwell on the tragedy that took their sons.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2021
  • The point of keeping death in mind isn’t to dwell on the macabre.
    Lisa Wells, Harper's Magazine, 28 Sep. 2021
  • At least you guys don't have much time to dwell on the L.
    Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2021
  • That said, change forces us to move forward and not dwell on the past.
    Mary Juetten, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Most of us don’t want to dwell on that type of imagery.
    Veronica Wells, Essence, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Chisholm knows this well and chooses not to dwell on it.
    USA Today, 25 June 2021
  • There was little time for the young Marines to dwell on the danger.
    Mirzahussain Sadid, ProPublica, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Allow me for a moment to dwell on the fall of the wall in Germany in 1989, please.
    CBS News, 29 June 2022
  • To be hard is to let things roll off you, to live in the present, to not dwell or worry.
    New York Times, 5 Apr. 2021
  • In other words, the Tigers don’t have time to dwell on their 29-point loss in Tuscaloosa.
    Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 29 Nov. 2020
  • But so far, at least, the complaints have dwelled on the predictable.
    Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The aim is to look forward and find ways to improve, instead of dwelling on the past.
    Melody Wilding, Lmsw, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Still, Hurley doesn’t want his team to dwell on this game.
    Shreyas Laddha, courant.com, 18 Dec. 2021
  • The play’s ending may feel a bit abrupt but there is still much to dwell on its depths.
    Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2024
  • But the government doesn’t seem to want to dwell on these scary stats, Davis says.
    Time, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The coach claims there’s no reason to dwell on past points when time can be spent on points to come.
    Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Little is known about the Parisii, the ancient Gallic tribe that dwelled on the banks of the Seine some 2,000 years ago.
    Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
  • No Cougar wants to dwell on it, but BYU football was built on that kind of stuff.
    Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Six days is not a lot of time, so dwell and risk your faves running out of stock.
    Sarah Han, Allure, 29 June 2023
  • But smartly, the film doesn’t dwell on the entire litany of Maurice’s scams.
    Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
  • Some of the 1938 flood accounts dwelled on our own pantheon: movie stars.
    Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Eppler would rather not dwell on his tenure with the Angels, the good or the bad.
    New York Times, 20 Mar. 2022
  • The Pittsburgh Steelers don't have time to dwell on their first loss of the season.
    Jace Evans, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Five days is not a lot of time, so don't dwell and risk your faves running out of stock.
    Sarah Han, Allure, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Don't dwell on these deals too much, because they're bound to sell out fast.
    Sarah Han, Allure, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Rather than dwelling on the past, Jameson is focused on what’s next.
    Lizzie Hyman, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2023
  • But Brooks herself doesn’t dwell on any episode very long.
    Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Many Democrats will dwell on the sequence of events that led to Biden’s withdrawal from the race in July.
    Niall Stanage, The Hill, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Paradoxically the poem invites us to dwell in that vast sonic space that is the silence of poetry and the worlds that emanate from there.
    Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 24 Oct. 2024

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