plural dorms
informal
: dormitory
In Norway, Tonya and Kerrigan were housed in the same dorm on the campus of the Toneheim Music School.—
Randall Sullivan
Randall Sullivan… writing about differences between coed dorms and single-sex dorms.—Karen Frantz
Karen FrantzThe pigeons descend on her, fluttering noisily as she makes her way to a bench outside my freshman dorm.—Julie Zickefoose
Julie ZickefooseExamples of dorm in a Sentence
We all lived in the same dorm during our sophomore year.
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Inside were six tickets for each of that season’s Indiana University football games, free to him as a dorm resident because, to put it bluntly, no one was terribly interested in going to Hoosier football games, let alone paying for them.
—Dana O'Neil, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
The building that will bear the Hopkins’ names sits across from another dorm named for her late friend, Maya Angelou.
—Essence, 24 Oct. 2025
The book also features 250 color illustrations of sketches, paintings, handwritten budgets and WhatsApp screenshots that trace Dillane’s evolution from selling T-shirts out of his dorm room at New York University to a stint creating a menswear collection for Louis Vuitton.
—Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2025
Such choices were not uncommon for the time — but someone snapped a photo of her walking back to her dorm and sent it to a popular Pakistani Facebook group.
—Janelle Griffith, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
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Dana O'Neil, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
The building that will bear the Hopkins’ names sits across from another dorm named for her late friend, Maya Angelou.
—Essence, 24 Oct. 2025
The book also features 250 color illustrations of sketches, paintings, handwritten budgets and WhatsApp screenshots that trace Dillane’s evolution from selling T-shirts out of his dorm room at New York University to a stint creating a menswear collection for Louis Vuitton.
—Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2025
Such choices were not uncommon for the time — but someone snapped a photo of her walking back to her dorm and sent it to a popular Pakistani Facebook group.
—Janelle Griffith, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for dorm
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“Dorm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dorm. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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