Sentence examples for dwelling like from inspiring English sources

It also has the typical trappings of a college dwelling, like discarded pizza boxes and bathrooms of questionable cleanliness.

More than three million of our adult children are living with us, have never left, or are coming back, and we are all stuck together in one dwelling, like it or not, possibly for ever.

Finally, we drove a few streets over to the house of Andrej and his wife, a plain but comfortable two-story dwelling like most of the houses in Vitaz.

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT and his acolytes built several fanciful residences here in the 1940's and 1950's, but Pleasantville has never seen a dwelling like Deana and Bruce Nelkins' modified geodesic dome.

The latter term recalls the 1920s movement for the "minimum dwelling", like Parker Morris an attempt to define what could be expected as a decent amount of space and making it compulsory – it's ironic to see it redefined as "small".

And "The Hunger Games," besides dwelling, like so many of these books, on the age-old American concern about phoniness and authenticity, also points out the dark, scapegoating side of our preoccupation with reality shows, especially elimination contests like "American Idol" and "The Biggest Loser".

Like their natural counterparts, they can be organized by taxon (cervid, like the white stag; caprid, like the faun; bovine, like the Minotaur; feline, like the sphinx), or by habitat (alpine, like yetis; woodland, like satyrs; cave-dwelling, like dragons; aquatic, like mermaids).

They are turning to larger dwellings like military tents to accommodate their numbers.

The people of Sumba build tall, conical dwellings, like witches' hats, whereas Borneo's Dayaks traditionally live in communal longhouses.

The west side of Palisades, too, has its share of meandering streets and historic dwellings, like one that used to be a general store.

These dwellings, like all the Sicilian homes Maggio visits, are cleaned furiously and proudly by members of a fierce army of Sicilian housewives.