DWELLER in a Sentence

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All the rest of the furniture indicated that the dweller in this house occupied himself with the study of natural science.

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 Meanings and Examples of DWELLER
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dweller
 n.  a person who inhabits a particular place
Classic Sentence:
1  The stateliness of look which had been almost too marked for a dweller in a country domicile had at last found an artistically happy background.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
2  All the rest of the furniture indicated that the dweller in this house occupied himself with the study of natural science.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 64 THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK
3  The backwoods folks and the swamp dwellers owned neither horses nor mules.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  But the tie which, through their common calamity, had united the feelings of these simple dwellers in the woods with the strangers who had thus transiently visited them, was not so easily broken.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
5  These are the sole dwellers in the wilderness.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
6  It was the night that dwellers in caves had watched from some high place among rocks.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 13
7  Like other dwellers in the south, he was a man of sober habits and moderate desires, but fond of external show, vain, and addicted to display.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn.
8  Still, people cannot do permanently without sleep, and heaven has appointed us dwellers on earth a time for all things.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XIX
Example Sentence:
1  The insects are found everywhere, from the homes of the wealthiest industrialists to the lowliest slum dweller.
2  The departure of the migrant workers for the holiday season has also shown up how dependent the city dwellers now are on these country cousins of theirs.