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
• Truth be told, the Longhorns haven’t spent much time dwelling on the Bulldogs.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 30 Aug. 2019
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• Trump won’t dwell on any of this during the campaign, of course.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2020
• Whether or not that applies to you, don't dwell on your job loss.
  — Anne Fisher, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Of course, Hehir doesn’t dwell on these things, either.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 14 Apr. 2020
• 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
• Christians should venerate relics, Aquinas says, because the saints’ bodies were dwelled in by God.
  — Therese Cory, The Conversation, 28 Jan. 2025
• His ability to call plays — while not having to dwell on them — provides an edge many other coaches don’t have.
  — Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 9 Mar 2025