Sentence examples for like a dwelling from inspiring English sources

("It's not hooked up to any utilities, so it doesn't seem like a dwelling").

By the eighth day, the team has collected more than twelve hundred fossil fragments — the cave appears "less like a dwelling and more like a mausoleum".

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.

"Passionate Fire 2003: Wood-Fired Ceramics," features eight artists, all of whom have built an Anagama kiln: a large, exterior, superheated oven that looks a little like a rustic dwelling.

One view of their apartment shows it jammed with paintings, tapestries, potted plants, rugs and sculpture — it was more like a small museum than a dwelling.

HER favorite cactus, a 10-footer she grew from a seedling her mother gave her, is decorated like a desert-dwelling Christmas tree with tiny ornaments; names of deceased loved ones are carved into its body — she uses a pin and, she says, the cactus "bleeds in white".

The exhibition catalog's description of Errol McKenzie's home as resembling an ancient, Inca-like dwelling built directly into a hillside with concrete and wood makes one think of the last of the three "Merzbau" dwellings built by the German painter Kurt Schwitters.

"I've found that people don't like dwelling on their own irrelevance," he says.

I don't like dwelling on the "larger" implications of what I'm doing.

I don't like dwelling on what's not gone well.

While I don't like dwelling on those details, it's important to understand the severity of this condition.