How to Use dwelling in a Sentence

dwelling

noun
  • Why buy one of these pint-sized dwellings?
    — Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Keep your eyes peeled for dwellings, as many are not marked.
    — Jennifer Broome, Denver Post, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Your dwelling in the woods doesn't have to lack all the comforts of home.
    — Matt Jancer, WIRED, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The woman was able to get the man out of her dwelling and locked the door.
    — cleveland, 6 May 2022
  • There are many unmarked dwellings and ruins along the trails.
    — Jennifer Broome, The Denver Post, 11 Feb. 2025
  • That meant keeping the rodents out of their dwelling for a few weeks.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 11 July 2022
  • The rest stay in camps, living in tents or other makeshift dwellings.
    — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Over time, new dwellings were built on top of the original homes.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Read on to explore the details of the pair’s dwellings over the years.
    — Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 27 Nov. 2025
  • City crews had not yet arrived to demolish his old dwelling.
    — Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Near Dolores’s dwelling, a dozen boys played with spinning tops.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2022
  • One dwelling is still standing, though, in the high grass a few yards from where the bakery once sat.
    — Bill Donahue, Washington Post, 6 July 2020
  • No one was injured, though the dwelling sustained some damage.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Its open door, facing the dwelling, revealed stacks of wood inside.
    — Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • His wife emerged from their dwelling with his 1-year-old daughter, as thick smoke and fire engulfed the area.
    — Jon Emont, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2021
  • The two-story dwelling was across the street from a store that King frequented.
    — Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 23 Oct. 2025
  • These structures are believed to have been parts of dwellings or public buildings.
    — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 6 Dec. 2025
  • The researchers added a predatory ground-dwelling lizard to islands with brown and green anoles.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 30 July 2020
  • The death toll was so high partly because many people lived in cave dwellings carved into soft loess soil.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 15 June 2026
  • 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
  • While mostly ground-dwelling, pheasants will perch up high to escape predators.
    — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The lot includes landscaping, yards, and two extra dwellings for guests.
    — The Week Us, TheWeek, 2 Mar. 2026
  • 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 vultures' dwellings also held ropes, horse tack and thousands of bone fragments and eggshells.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • More than seventy dwellings have been completed so far.
    — Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2025
  • When the fund liquidates, the dividend dwelling is gone.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Living areas throughout the dwelling are equipped with fireplaces.
    — India Roby, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2025

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