dormitory

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Recent Examples of dormitory Matron’s flat was just off the main dormitory wing. Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 9 Jan. 2025 The 77,000-square-foot detention center built in 2018 was expanded this year to include interrogation rooms, 30 detention cells, and dormitories for 550 staff members. George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024 The city constructed the dormitories at Floyd Bennett Field despite protests and criticism that the location was unsuitable and isolated. Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2024 Hundreds of workers from the Indian city of Cooch Behar lug steel girders into the concrete shells of what will be dormitories, as a leaf blower removes detritus from an artificial-turf soccer pitch. By Charlie Campbell/gelephu, Bhutan, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dormitory
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dormitory
Noun
  • Rooms have been turned into separate dorms for men and women and children.
    Julia Frankel, TIME, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The agency demolished a dorm at McMurdo years ago, and still hasn’t rebuilt it.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • According to Flavor Insider, a food and cooking website, the New York strip got its name from New York City butchers in the 19th century and was initially considered one of the less desirable cuts of beef, meaning it was frequently sold to boardinghouses and restaurants to go in stews.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The locals didn’t always welcome Trump’s plans—a woman who owned a boardinghouse near one site would not sell, sparking a feud.
    Dan Alexander, Forbes, 8 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • One regular, Milt, lived in the Whitehouse Hotel, a flophouse around the corner.
    Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
  • There aren’t any flophouses in her this-year’s-hometown of Arlington.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 15 May 2024

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