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
• 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
• 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
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• The two boys are caught alone in a dormitory and are sent to the president’s office to be reprimanded.
  — Cressida Leysho, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
• 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 teens spent a week together with others in a dormitory.
  — John Blake, CNN, 1 Jan. 2022
• Huddling with a group of friends in his high school dormitory about a decade ago, each person took turns slurping them down — a competition to see who was the best at tolerating the heat.
  — Kelly Kasulis Cho, Washington Post, 19 June 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024