dwells upon
Example Sentences
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In the modern era, the most influential version of the puzzle — and the one that “Reality+” most dwells upon — appears in the opening sections of René Descartes’ “Meditations.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2022
He dwells upon the ugliness of the Baltimore slums where Ruth was born and the Alcatraz-like atmosphere of the Catholic industrial school where the Babe was sequestered for 10 years as a youth.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021
It’s true the piece doesn’t offer any new material about the case, and while it does provide a fair amount of background, it hardly dwells upon the horrifying details.
From Slate • Jul. 31, 2018
But probabilities aren't something Liz dwells upon much, barely six months after Paul's death and almost a decade after Jeremy's.
From BBC • Jul. 24, 2018
One dwells upon this period of indolence and folly the more willingly, because, after all, it reveals to us in Prescott those pardonable human failings which only serve to make his character more comprehensible.
From William Hickling Prescott by Peck, Harry Thurston
