How to Use dwelling in a Sentence

dwelling

noun

• The woman was able to get the man out of her dwelling and locked the door.
  — cleveland, 6 May 2022
• Your dwelling in the woods doesn't have to lack all the comforts of home.
  — Matt Jancer, WIRED, 1 Sep. 2022
• The woman got up to see how the man got inside the dwelling.
  — cleveland, 4 Jan. 2022
• The dwelling from the 1200s was something else to behold.
  — Demetria Gallegos, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2022
• The mixed-use zone allows for up to 73 dwelling units per acre.
  — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2024
• That meant keeping the rodents out of their dwelling for a few weeks.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 11 July 2022
• His house sits in a line of mini dwellings, the smallest of which is just 350 square feet.
  — Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2024
• The main feature of Walnut Canyon is the dwellings built into the limestone cliffs.
  — The Arizona Republic, 16 Aug. 2023
• At this point, Cathedral isn’t into dwelling on the past.
  — Joel Lorenzi, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Mar. 2022
• The woman was found inside a dwelling with one or more wounds to her body, the police said.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
• There is evidence of Iron Age dwelling in the south and a Roman Villa in the north.
  — David Nikel, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
• Photo : Knight Frank Among the dwellings are quaint stone cottages.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 May 2024
• There are a whopping 10 bedrooms and 12 baths dispersed among the two dwellings.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 21 Aug. 2023
• The two-room nomadic dwelling (plus a back porch) on wheels is parked on the street outside the museum.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• The building still stands today and is used as a private dwelling.
  — Frank Batavick, Baltimore Sun, 25 Sep. 2022
• Here are the ten best waffle towels to make your dwelling even more hospitable.
  — Men's Health, 7 Feb. 2023
• The houses were built on stilts to keep the dwellings above the lake and undulating water levels in the area.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2023
• Dating back to the 1820s, the white stuccoed dwelling sits right next to the prized Regent’s Park and overlooks a large boating lake.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 2 Feb. 2023
• Near Dolores’s dwelling, a dozen boys played with spinning tops.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2022
• While the officers are discussing which of the two doors is the correct dwelling of the complaints, the dog appears out of the darkness.
  — Jasmin Barmore, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2023
• The request was to zone the land for multifamily dwellings up to 18 units an acre.
  — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2023
• The North Rim Drive is 17 miles with three overlooks at prominent cliff dwellings and is best in the morning.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2024
• Inside that dwelling — inside his head? — the sounds from the other side of the door are distorted.
  — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 18 Nov. 2021
• Great Gift Under $150 Bring a bit of the southwest to your favorite couples' dwelling.
  — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 17 Oct. 2022
• Spanning the top two floors of a four-story building known as the Whitman, the dwelling hosts four bedrooms and six-and-a-half baths.
  — Megan Johnson, Architectural Digest, 1 Aug. 2024
• No one was injured, though the dwelling sustained some damage.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 18 Oct. 2022
• The rustic, 1,100-square-foot cabin is about as secluded as a dwelling can be.
  — Michelle Matthews | [e-mail], al, 26 Jan. 2023
• The department added that the fire occurred on the third floor of a six-story multiple dwelling.
  — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 26 Feb. 2024
• Most of these apartment-dwelling pups are friendly and well-behaved.
  — Dorothy Dworkin, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Feb. 2022
• Landed during the rainy season in a swamp, the emigrants found neither fresh water nor waterproof dwellings awaiting them, though they were shortly regaled with a supply of skates!
  — Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 13 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Jan 2025