How to Use dorm in a Sentence

dorm

noun
  • We all lived in the same dorm during our sophomore year.
  • Among the group were three siblings, one of whom lived in the dorm.
    — Shayna Jacobs, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The three returned to the plaintiff’s dorm, and the roommate went to bed.
    — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Gone are the days of sleeping through a rager in the dorm room next door.
    — Lisa Desantis, Glamour, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The dorm room door was shut but not locked when Ara left.
    — Brieanna J. Frank, The Arizona Republic, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Ahead are 15 dorm ideas for the coolest room on campus.
    — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 1 June 2023
  • Better still, the small size will fit in any dorm room.
    — Katrina Cossey, Parents, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Josh would always go out of his way to pick me up from the dorms.
    — Rustin Dodd, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Children must be at least 6 years old to stay in a dorm.
    — The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Groundwork for the dorm project was laid in April, but has been four years in the making.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2021
  • This gives the book the feel of a late-night dorm-room bull session of an erudite sort.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Leah went back to her dorm room and lay in bed for almost two days straight.
    — Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • By a year or two in, about 50 students were coming to the dorm each evening to work the night shift.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Downs had been a student at the school at the time and lived upstairs in the dorm where Sergie’s body was found.
    — Christopher Williams, Sun Journal (lewiston, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The piece is a great multitasker for dorm rooms or cramped kids’ rooms.
    — Rachel Dube, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 July 2023
  • The cops now have probable cause and set out to search Tariq’s dorm room.
    — Kyesha Jennings, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The bathroom doors leading to both dorm rooms can’t be locked.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The group assumed that people wouldn’t want to pay tons of money to stay in a dorm.
    — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Many young people spent the night there, or crashed in dorm rooms with student hosts.
    — Ruth Graham Jesse Barber, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Is she headed to college (a good gift for her dorm will be key)?
    — Amanda Garrity, goodhousekeeping.com, 20 Apr. 2023
  • These storage baskets are a great way to keep dorm rooms neat and tidy.
    — Karla Pope, Woman's Day, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The three color options work for any dorm room decor theme.
    — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Outside the dorm, there was a taxi waiting, and the sky was dark, odd for the early morning.
    — Charisma Madarang, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2022
  • They wouldn’t get murdered in their sleep and they wouldn’t get firebombed in their dorm rooms.
    — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2023
  • When Nguyen was a senior at Harvard, she was raped in her dorm.
    — Kathleen Hou, ELLE, 28 Mar. 2023
  • This included flights, Ubers to and from the airport, and dorm supplies.
    — Ellie Stevens, CNN, 26 Aug. 2023
  • In that time, staff members had one visit with Mr. Wang in his dorm room.
    — New York Times, 23 July 2022
  • One of the easiest ways to fit more into your tiny dorm room?
    — House Beautiful, 5 July 2022
  • Next week, Karen lives in a dorm which makes cooking for herself a bit of a challenge.
    — Bon Appétit, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Rooms have been turned into separate dorms for men and women and children.
    — Julia Frankel, TIME, 28 Feb. 2025

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