Example sentences for: dwellings

How can you use “dwellings” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • bag-blind bastard (derogatory and offensive) a person so poor that he or she lives in the meanest of dwellings with only empty sugar-bags for curtains (blinds as they are also known in the Caribbean).

  • Vestiges of dwellings survive — cabins on stilts in the frequently flooded Po valley, larger clay houses on the western marshlands of Tuscany, and Sardinia’s still visible domed dry-stone nuraghi.

  • Even today, there are many cave dwellings in the islands.

  • The first stone engravings found in the Canary Islands were discovered here in the 18th century, and the ten natural cave dwellings, with their magnificent rock engravings, were the home to the Benahoritas — the ancient settlers of Benahoare, the original aboriginal name for La Palma.

  • All Egyptian temples would appear vividly colored — much like the tombs in the Valley of the Kings — but little color has survived on most of them due to the effects of sunlight and smoke damage caused by fires when the temples were used as dwellings.


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