Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: dwells
IPA transcription: [dw'ɛlz]
Usage examples
  • If one dwells in a provincial town where it is not customary to use carriages, they should go in a chair.
  • A love as tender as that of a lover for his mistress dwells, undoubtedly, in some paternal hearts toward a son.
  • In the middle of the park is a castle, where dwells a horrible witch who allows no living being to enter the doors.
  • "And will you direct me to where she dwells? and the reward of your directing me will be as good as the reward of your message," said the king.
  • Could we conceive an abstract intellect, we might conceive it dwelling continually in the sphere of abstract and absolute truth; but no man, however wise, dwells continually in this sphere.
  • He who lives constantly in the conception of noble and lofty thoughts, who dwells upon all that is pure and unselfish, will, as surely as the sun reaches its zenith and the moon its full, become wise and noble in character, and rise into a position of influence and blessedness.