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
• 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
• Children must be at least 6 years old to stay in a dorm.
  — The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2024
• 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
• The piece is a great multitasker for dorm rooms or cramped kids’ rooms.
  — Rachel Dube, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 July 2023
• The bathroom doors leading to both dorm rooms can’t be locked.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 13 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Zoom from the comfort of a dorm room has been replaced by hard deadlines.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Jan. 2023
• My first job, in college, was front-desk admin in my first dorm.
  — Alan Neuhauser, Axios, 24 Sep. 2024
• The graduate can hang it as wall art in their dorm room or in their first apartment.
  — Angela Belt, House Beautiful, 29 Mar. 2023
• Police drove the 18-year-old to his dorm room and released him into the care of his roommate.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 15 Sep. 2022
• Guests can choose to book its private rooms or go no-frills by staying in its dorms.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2023
• While Laura was moving in during the fall of 1990, her parents snapped the first of many photos of her in the dorm.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• The dorm bedroom is long gone with a Pettibon above the bed replacing the off-the-shelf pop art.
  — Curbed, 29 Dec. 2022
• More than a dozen more appeared on zoom, some from their dorm rooms, some from the encampment.
  — Nara Milanich, TIME, 26 Apr. 2024
• This slim Keurig machine is perfect for dorm rooms, apartments, and anyone who only needs one cup of coffee at a time.
  — Genevieve Cepeda, People.com, 9 Oct. 2024
• In September, a bat found in a dorm room tested positive for rabies.
  — The Arizona Republic, 5 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024