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.
• 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
• The two lived in the same dormitory, according to the lawsuit.
  — Sam Blum, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2020
• The younger age groups would leave their dormitories to watch the senior games and debate who would be the next one to leave for Denmark.
  — Jordan Campbell, The Athletic, 9 Aug. 2024
• To start, there was the dormitory shared by thirty boys.
  — Ian McEwan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• Anas joined the group of boys streaming out of the dormitory and toward the compound’s cement walls.
  — Joe Parkinson, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2020
• 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
• So far as Mull knew, there were no views into his dormitory.
  — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
• Yates said Gardner was found about 7 p.m. in an open style dormitory.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 25 Feb. 2022
• The window of his dormitory room opened onto the scene from high above, offering a bird’s-eye view.
  — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
• In most of their scenes, Alex and Maggie talk quietly in shadows of dormitory halls and bedrooms and on the streets at night.
  — Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 9 Nov. 2020
• 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
• Four construction projects on campus, including a dormitory with 405 beds, will be complete in two years.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Jan 2025