dweller

Example Sentences

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I am also a city dweller who has thoroughly enjoyed not owning or maintaining a vehicle for the last decade.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 20, 2026

Lead actress Ella Purnell plays Lucy MacLean in the show, a vault dweller raised underground in a protective bunker in the aftermath of the nuclear war.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025

One such garage dweller, Irma Portillo, had been living in a two-car garage in Pacoima for five years with her three children, her late brother’s two children and her mother — seven people in all.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2025

For one, viral proteins bore the hallmarks of a longtime hot spring dweller: They tended to have shorter loops and be more tightly packed than proteins adapted to milder conditions.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 8, 2024

Early each morning the radio brought us a program called “The Day Breaker’s Club,” which played the traditional music and poetry of the Puerto Rican country dweller, the jíbaro.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago