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- verb Simple past of
dwell . - verb Past participle of
dwell
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Examples
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As my jacket experiences in San Quentin continued, I dwelled not a little on this problem of suspended animation.
Chapter 18 2010
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While we can credit him for some degree of intellectual honesty in confronting the hypocrisies and irrationalities that govern so much of public life, religious and non-religious, Christopher Hitchens, in the end, could not offer a vision of true humanness because he dwelled in the cynical faculties of the mind without being adequately informed by the positive wisdom of the heart.
Kabir Helminski: Christopher Hitchens is "Not Great" Kabir Helminski 2011
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Stating his seriousness on “launching a new chapter” in hemispheric relations, he cautioned that issues and progress could be stymied if states dwelled on stale arguments.
Global Voices in English » Americas: 5th Summit Reactions 2009
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Jesse Johnson said his father, known to friends and family as R.J., had lived through a riot at the penitentiary in 1993 and knew the danger of his job but never dwelled on it.
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To write about the Donner Party, one has to address this aspect of the tale; but I haven't dwelled on it in Snow Mountain
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It was such a massive step forward for me, and Team Sky, but I've not dwelled on it as much as other past successes.
Bradley Wiggins: It's a way of life and you need to buy into it 2012
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The show was good in that it focused on actual children and showed their lives of poverty and, of course, it dwelled on the addictions of alcoholism pointing out that 80 percent of the adults on Pine Ridge were afflicted with this disease.
Tim Giago: ABC News: Reflecting on the Obvious at Pine Ridge Tim Giago 2011
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One young Lakota lady basketball star named SuAnne Big Crow took exception to the telecast and attacked it as a show that dwelled on sensationalism to distort what Pine Ridge was all about.
Tim Giago: ABC News: Reflecting on the Obvious at Pine Ridge Tim Giago 2011
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Hed dwelled on suicide so much over the last months, had examined the act from so many angles, that it had lost its punch.
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The bigger game dwelled in the largest cities more often than not and she had to spend three fourth of her first significant reward to buy fully equipped flats in these.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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