dwells on
Example Sentences
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He never dwells on errors, he just kicks on.
From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026
Though he handles the science of memory deftly, in the few spots where he dwells on it, his view of memory is an expansionist one incorporating concepts of immortality as much as neural integrity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
“Leave the World Behind” dwells on the tensions between the Sanfords and Scotts in ways that address race without actively naming it.
From Salon • Dec. 8, 2023
Neither dwells on the legions of reporters and editors whose careers have been derailed as the business, fixated on declining profits and slow to adapt to the internet, has shed jobs.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2023
Savary dwells on the difficulty both of procuring lenses sufficiently equal in focus and of accurately adjusting and centring them.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
