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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The choral group practices too loudly, but they’ve been banned from the dorms already right?
—Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 4 Feb. 2026
Tolles was initially drawn to a secondhand-centric design approach after seeing the level of furniture waste every year when students moved out of their dorms at USC and left IKEA pieces on the street as trash.
—Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2026
The first Bad Bunny releases were dorm-room demos uploaded to SoundCloud, the music streaming site.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
Acuri described a student passed out in a dorm bathroom.
—Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 3 Feb. 2026
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Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 4 Feb. 2026
Tolles was initially drawn to a secondhand-centric design approach after seeing the level of furniture waste every year when students moved out of their dorms at USC and left IKEA pieces on the street as trash.
—Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2026
The first Bad Bunny releases were dorm-room demos uploaded to SoundCloud, the music streaming site.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
Acuri described a student passed out in a dorm bathroom.
—Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 3 Feb. 2026
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 9 Feb. 2026.
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