单词
dwelt
释义
dweltpast simple and past participle ofdwellformal(Definition ofdweltfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofdwelt
dweltBut all his biographersdweltat greatest length on his origins as a humble shoemaker.From theCambridge English CorpusThat was the subject of the previous section, so this exercise will not bedweltupon except to point out one important result.From theCambridge English CorpusSaundersdwelton what he saw as other substantial shortcomings in the overall urban history literature.From theCambridge English CorpusOur analysis hasdweltmostly on features common to the three occasions around which the analysis revolves.From theCambridge English CorpusI havedweltat alarming length on tacit symmetries pointing to bodies under bodies.From theCambridge English CorpusIt often echoes the diction and syntax of the better of those nineteenth-century writers among whom he hasdweltso long.From theCambridge English CorpusThese parishes formed something of a local centre for the building trade and numbers of roughmasons, carpenters and joinersdweltthere.From theCambridge English CorpusPreachersdweltecstatically both on the freedom it granted from pain and disease and on the exquisite pleasures derived from this quality.From theCambridge English CorpusThese case reports included information on the composition of the households in which victimsdwelt.From theCambridge English CorpusVagnerdweltespecially on the ubiquitous challenge of instinct, the inborn readiness to learn a particular pattern of behavior quickly and permanently.From theCambridge English CorpusContamination is a word with so many negative associations, especially in an essay that hasdweltupon nuclear testing : in terms of historicity, it insinuates a kind of pollutant ' 'fallout.From theCambridge English CorpusAs soon as he arrived, they blinded him upon the ship, and brought him thus blind to the monks, and hedweltthere the time that he lived.From theCambridge English CorpusThe videotape can be paused, reversed, speeded up,dweltover, just like the pages of a book or a score, and entirely unlike a theatrical performance.From theCambridge English CorpusRossini's librettists seldomdwelton such concerns, partly owing to the broad decline of ethical issues and - more importandy - because moral conundrums fail to inflame the situation.From theCambridge English CorpusI havedwelton the sins of omission perpetrated by the so-called tourism strategy.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/dwelt##
