: a shelter (such as a house) in which people live
Examples of dwelling in a Sentence
the simple dwellings in which the Pilgrims spent the first winter at Plymouth
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In the five years just before war set in, these were among the dwellings that had beguiled Heinz Gaube (1940–2022), a German academic at the Oriental Seminar of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.
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JSTOR Daily, 25 Oct. 2025
In multiunit dwellings, secondhand smoke can seep in from many places, including vents and cracks in walls or floors.
—Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Shortly after welcoming son Mason with Scott Disick in 2010, the Poosh founder offloaded the dwelling for $700,000 in favor of a more spacious home to accommodate her growing family.
—Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 24 Oct. 2025
The annual phenomenon sees millions of crimson-red crustaceans clattering across roads from their forest dwellings to the island's shores to spawn their eggs.
—Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
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JSTOR Daily, 25 Oct. 2025
In multiunit dwellings, secondhand smoke can seep in from many places, including vents and cracks in walls or floors.
—Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Shortly after welcoming son Mason with Scott Disick in 2010, the Poosh founder offloaded the dwelling for $700,000 in favor of a more spacious home to accommodate her growing family.
—Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 24 Oct. 2025
The annual phenomenon sees millions of crimson-red crustaceans clattering across roads from their forest dwellings to the island's shores to spawn their eggs.
—Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for dwelling
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“Dwelling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dwelling. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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