verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dwelling house
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
on
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But these are technical considerations not to be dwelt on here.
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Why a pair was so expensive just four years ago is something you could dwell on well into the night.
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This is worth dwelling on , because those who brush quality off as unaffordable abound in the business world as well.
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She tried not to dwell on why it was that she hadn't.
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The significance of the fact that so many states are still in play is worth dwelling on .
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The Murphy kitchen was not something to dwell on .
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Her mind sheered away from images she didn't want to dwell on .
too
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But I don't think the readers of Aura will want me to dwell too much on the pain.
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But there are other, less positive reasons for not dwelling too much on the war.
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While Schweitzer tended to dwell too exclusively on this aspect, he was certainly justified in stressing it.
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I don't want to dwell too much on the obvious but a number of things should be pointed out here.
upon
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The scale of the trauma is perhaps still too great to be dwelt upon for long.
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But that is not the story they dwell upon .
■ NOUN
house
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Goblin A general name for the familiar demon or mischievous spirit who dwells in private houses or in the chinks of trees.
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They drew rein in Sparta before the lordly dwelling , a house far more splendid than either young man had ever seen.
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After more than forty years, strangers now dwelt in the houses I knew at Wood Green.
time
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He hardly had time to dwell on such matters, however.
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Give yourself the time to dwell on the miracle that has just taken place.
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At the time he didn't dwell on the man whose cap, and life, he stole.
■ VERB
want
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I want to dwell upon the draft immigration rules because most hon. Members have mentioned them.
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I do not want to dwell on it; we know it to be true.
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But I don't think the readers of Aura will want me to dwell too much on the pain.
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Her mind sheered away from images she didn't want to dwell on.
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But I don't want to dwell on that too much.
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I don't want to dwell too much on the obvious but a number of things should be pointed out here.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A woodsman and his family dwelt in the middle of the forest.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But in her writing and speeches Shaughnessy did not dwell on this problem; perhaps that was a necessary part of salesmanship.
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Each country has its own geography where the spirit dwells and where physical force can never conquer even an inch of ground.
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He had certainly never bothered to dwell much before on what the moon saw as it climbed.
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I am suspicious of gods who dwell benignly in heavens, immutable and supreme.
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The Lord in his glory had actually come to dwell amongst his people.
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They force the reader to slow down, to dwell or brood on what is happening.