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Definition of "dwelled" [dwelled]

  • Simple past of dwell. (verb)
  • Past participle of dwell (verb)

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Use "dwelled" in a sentence
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "He’d dwelled on suicide so much over the last months, had examined the act from so many angles, that it had lost its punch."