How to Use dorm in a Sentence

dorm

noun

• We all lived in the same dorm during our sophomore year.
• The era of peak dorm decor is here.
  — Meagan Francis, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2025
• College dorm rooms had posters of the facts tacked to walls.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026
• Her friends slept on the floor in her dorm room beside her.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
• Among the group were three siblings, one of whom lived in the dorm.
  — Shayna Jacobs, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Jan. 2023
• Josh would always go out of his way to pick me up from the dorms.
  — Rustin Dodd, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
• Mark Zuckerberg in his dorm room.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
• Gone are the days of sleeping through a rager in the dorm room next door.
  — Lisa Desantis, Glamour, 8 Feb. 2023
• Leah went back to her dorm room and lay in bed for almost two days straight.
  — Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• The dorm was supposed to be on lockdown.
  — Kristine Phillips, IndyStar, 4 Nov. 2025
• The bathroom doors leading to both dorm rooms can’t be locked.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 13 Oct. 2022
• Students plastered it on dorm room walls.
  — Amir Husain, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• These storage baskets are a great way to keep dorm rooms neat and tidy.
  — Karla Pope, Woman's Day, 6 Oct. 2022
• Online dorm life didn’t appeal to him.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 23 May 2026
• Is she headed to college (a good gift for her dorm will be key)?
  — Amanda Garrity, goodhousekeeping.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• My first job, in college, was front-desk admin in my first dorm.
  — Alan Neuhauser, Axios, 24 Sep. 2024
• Dust bunnies under your dorm bed?
  — Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
• 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
• There are going to be guys who smell of stale beer, like the guys in my freshman dorm.
  — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
• Angry, Sam goes to a dorm room and starts trashing it.
  — Olivia Singh, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• One of the easiest ways to fit more into your tiny dorm room?
  — House Beautiful, 5 July 2022
• Why did Ainsley move out of her college dorm?
  — Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 11 Jan. 2026
• Men in the program are housed in a different area of the dorm.
  — Collin Binkley, Star Tribune, 17 Feb. 2021
• The quickest way to make your office feel like a college dorm room?
  — Rachel Wolfe, WSJ, 18 Feb. 2021
• 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
• Zoom from the comfort of a dorm room has been replaced by hard deadlines.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Jan. 2023
• It's been in Tangney's DNA since the dorm days.
  — Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
• Acuri described a student passed out in a dorm bathroom.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 3 Feb. 2026
• The dorm was just across the street, but the male friend accompanied her.
  — Maryclaire Dale, USA TODAY, 17 May 2021
• The cops now have probable cause and set out to search Tariq’s dorm room.
  — Kyesha Jennings, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2021