dwelt's Usage Examples:

The most attractive parts are the American quarter, where the employes of the Panama railway have their homes, and the old French quarter, where dwelt the French officers during their efforts to build the canal.

It was in this district, at the well Beer-Lahai-roi, that Isaac dwelt (Gen.

Men of business, even farmers, thought only of solitude and employment, and of the great distance at which I dwelt from something or other; and though they said that they loved a ramble in the woods occasionally, it was obvious that they did not.

As if only the savage dwelt near enough to Nature and Truth to borrow a trope from them.

He saved Israel from being blotted out, and through his successes " the children of Israel dwelt in their tents as of old " (2 Kings xiii.

The exiles dwelt at Tell-abib (" Hill of the flood "), one of the mounds or ruins made by the great floods that devastated the country,1 near the " river " Chebar (Kebar), probably a large canal not far south of the city of Babylon.

It dwelt with God (Prov.

A larger soul I think hath seldom dwelt in a house of clay than his was.

On one of them he dwelt long and joyfully.

He no longer needed to feel as if he still dwelt in the shadow of Darian's death.

Synonyms:

care, worry, brood,

Antonyms:

starve, disembark, get off, exit,