How to Use dormitory in a Sentence

dormitory

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  • Guests at the camp can stay in private cabins or for a smaller fee in the dormitories.
  • Downs and Dazer lived on the third floor of the dormitory.
    — Christopher Williams, Sun Journal (lewiston, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The minute Charlayne Hunter comes out of the dormitory and leaves.
    — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2021
  • One house was the school, while the other was a convent and dormitory.
    — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The boys have been trained to care for their own dormitories and building.
    — Sheila McCann, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The two were placed in the same dormitory, and magic ensued.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • To start, there was the dormitory shared by thirty boys.
    — Ian McEwan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • In the city centre, the windows of a dormitory that serves a chemical plant had been blown out.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 1 May 2023
  • There was a restaurant on the ground floor of their dormitory at Harvard, called the Quincy House Grille.
    — Fortune, 18 May 2021
  • During the attack, a dormitory was burned and food in a store was looted, said the spokesman, Fred Enanga.
    — Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 17 June 2023
  • The fire is believed to have started in a dormitory for 17 girls on Monday.
    — Staff Author, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2022
  • In that case, the gunman first killed two people at a dormitory.
    — Sean Murphy, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2022
  • Before she was sent to the dormitory, one more thing was taken: her name.
    — New York Times, 19 July 2021
  • The dormitory is made up of two tents, each with a capacity of 449 cots.
    — Mark Morales, CNN, 19 Oct. 2022
  • At seafood plants, the women sleep in bunk beds in locked dormitories, sometimes thirty to a room.
    — Ian Urbina, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Editor’s picks Though his sisters were at the school in the girls’ dormitory, he wasn’t allowed to speak to them.
    — Brandi Morin, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2023
  • That meant catching buses and trains to and from my home or dormitory.
    — Ibrahim Onafeko, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Mar. 2021
  • One couple is lucky to get a room of their own instead of dormitory shared with half a dozen others.
    — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2024
  • In the aftermath of the storm, the city of Lakeland assumed control of the Tigers' dormitory and cafeteria.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 2 Oct. 2022
  • On the microblog Weibo, many praised the group for their bravery with some referring to the fence at the dormitory as the Berlin Wall being torn down.
    — Pei-Lin Wu, Washington Post, 18 May 2022
  • Yates said Gardner was found about 7 p.m. in an open style dormitory.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The same design concept goes into the large dormitory in the form of an arch-shaped tunnel entrance.
    — Zoe Hewitt, Variety, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Save for the two weeks spent in the dormitory, Murillo spent 14 months in solitary confinement, the lawsuit states.
    — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Smart needed help to get up a hill, and once in sight of the dormitories, prosecutors say, Flores promised to get her home.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
  • At the end of the trip was the Stromynka, a vast, austere, and crowded dormitory — eight to 15 students to a room — that had been a military barracks in the time of Peter the Great.
    — Marilyn Berger, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022
  • At the site, the vibe is more college dormitory than homeless shelter.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2021
  • Those in the dormitory are struggling with the aches and pains of old age, amplified by the physical and mental traumas of war.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The stabbing occurred after a fight broke out in the dormitory between a group of people.
    — Corin Cesaric, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Male athletes stayed in Royal Air Force barracks, while women were housed in college dormitories.
    — Tim Genske, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2024
  • Government spokesperson Isaac Mwaura said in a statement Friday that the fire broke out at around midnight in the male dormitory of the mixed private boarding school, adding that more than 150 boys were in the dormitory at the time.
    — Larry Madowo, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024

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