1
: a formal dance given by a high school or college class
2
British
: promenade sense 2
Examples of prom in a Sentence
Noun
Are you going to the prom?
he resolved to ask her to the school prom at the first opportunity
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Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
Trevizo entered a plea of not guilty to both charges and was released pretrial, attending her prom but not her high school graduation ceremony.
—Chris Spargo, People.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Melissa Drexler gave birth to a baby while in a bathroom at her New Jersey high school prom in 1997, according to The New York Times.
—Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Young Jodie Foster won her first Oscar in 1989 (for The Accused) wearing a strange, prom-gown-pale-blue strapless mini with a big, ruffled train — looking uncomfortable — even awkward.
—Merle Ginsberg, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Not even Chris Hargensen, the organizer of Carrie’s prom-night humiliation, the meanest of all mean girls, could have thought up something so diabolical.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
Trevizo entered a plea of not guilty to both charges and was released pretrial, attending her prom but not her high school graduation ceremony.
—Chris Spargo, People.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Melissa Drexler gave birth to a baby while in a bathroom at her New Jersey high school prom in 1997, according to The New York Times.
—Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Young Jodie Foster won her first Oscar in 1989 (for The Accused) wearing a strange, prom-gown-pale-blue strapless mini with a big, ruffled train — looking uncomfortable — even awkward.
—Merle Ginsberg, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
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“Prom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prom. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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