How to Use dorm in a Sentence

dorm

noun
  • We all lived in the same dorm during our sophomore year.
  • This gives the book the feel of a late-night dorm-room bull session of an erudite sort.
    Barton Swaim, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Surviving dorm life is all about knowing how to make a lot out of a little.
    Audrey Bruno, SELF, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Think that’s what Zuckerberg envisioned in his Harvard dorm room?
    Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The second shot reveals the layout of a dorm room: two beds, two desks, two sets of shelves, and plenty of Seven swag.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Here’s how to make your dorm room dining dreams a reality, according to experts.
    Audrey Bruno, SELF, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Torrey was the only of four K9s to do so, and also alerted to a trash can in Flores’ dorm room.
    Fox News, 26 Aug. 2022
  • In the first episode of the series, though, Lucy shows up to her dorm room to meet her new roommate—Macy Campbell.
    Keely Weiss, ELLE, 7 Sep. 2022
  • By Sophia Lee now features advice on decorating dorm rooms, apartments and homes.
    Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Brooke Shields was in the Wake Forest dorm room of her youngest daughter, Grier, on freshman move-in-day.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2024
  • In 2007, Srinivasan picked another track: the dorm-room-to-boardroom startup.
    Anthony Lydgate, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The older man lost consciousness momentarily, then woke up and returned to his Baldwin Wallace dorm.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Students who test positive will now isolate in their dorm rooms and BC’s policy requires them to follow social distancing and masking precautions.
    Alexander Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2022
  • For $2,500, his participants can sleep in dorm rooms at his research center, learn his theories about bears, and greet and feed any of the wild bears like Jack that wander to his station.
    Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • For two students sharing a dorm room over an eight-month academic year, that works out to more than $2,500 a month to rent one room.
    Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2024

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