How to Use dormitory in a Sentence

dormitory

noun

• Guests at the camp can stay in private cabins or for a smaller fee in the dormitories.
• 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
• In the city centre, the windows of a dormitory that serves a chemical plant had been blown out.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 1 May 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• One week before move-in, Neya Glover learned she wouldn’t be placed in a dormitory as expected.
  — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 13 Mar. 2023
• The Venezuelan showed me a video of guards escorting out a man who’d brought outside food into a dormitory room.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
• Videos from seafood plants show that many workers from Xinjiang live in dormitories.
  — Ian Urbina, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• On June 17, the fire blazed right up to many of the telescopes on the southwest ridge of the summit, destroying a cabin, dormitory, and utility shed.
  — Wired, 18 Aug. 2022
• Sarah has tried for the past four years to find an apartment — her last steady residence was her college dormitory.
  — Ethan Ward, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2022
• Earlier last week, a Russian drone strike struck a high school and dormitories south of Kyiv, killing at least nine people.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
• This is a business, not a college dormitory, and the noisy employees are not the popular kids.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2023
• On the same day that the auditors toured, a young Uyghur worker posted pictures of herself near the plant’s loading bays and what seem to be its dormitories.
  — Ian Urbina, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• As part of an urban renewal project, the city of Athens and the state Board of Regents displaced the families to make way for three dormitories on campus.
  — Audra D. S. Burch, New York Times, 8 June 2023
• While en route to his dormitory, Rogers collapsed and his condition grew worse.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 23 Aug. 2023
• Students and teachers were ordered to shelter in place for hours as a SWAT team combed the campus dormitories at the school where 9,000 students enrolled last fall.
  — Jennifer Henderson, CNN, 13 Oct. 2023
• While the design phase has yet to commence, Bravin said that ASD’s goal is to create a dormitory that follows a pod concept that will group students based on need or age.
  — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 4 Sep. 2022
• Thirty-eight students in their dormitories were among the victims.
  — Rodney Muhumuza, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2023
• Thursday marked six days since Ewunetie, 20, was last seen near her dormitory, Scully Hall, around 3 a.m. Friday.
  — Fox News, 20 Oct. 2022
• Water damage in the basement and on the first and second floors of the dormitory and the building's electrical system were being assessed.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 24 Aug. 2023
• The dormitory analogy extended to the kitchen (a countertop running along the far side of the room), which had no cooking range, just a one-ring propane burner, a microwave and a fridge.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024