How to Use dorm in a Sentence

dorm

noun

• We all lived in the same dorm during our sophomore year.
• 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
• The dorm room door was shut but not locked when Ara left.
  — Brieanna J. Frank, The Arizona Republic, 10 Nov. 2021
• 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
• Josh would always go out of his way to pick me up from the dorms.
  — Rustin Dodd, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
• Children must be at least 6 years old to stay in a dorm.
  — The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2024
• Groundwork for the dorm project was laid in April, but has been four years in the making.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2021
• This gives the book the feel of a late-night dorm-room bull session of an erudite sort.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
• 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 dorm was just across the street, but the male friend accompanied her.
  — Maryclaire Dale, chicagotribune.com, 17 May 2021
• The dorm was just across the street, but the male friend accompanied her.
  — Maryclaire Dale, USA TODAY, 17 May 2021
• Downs had been a student at the school at the time and lived upstairs in the dorm where Sergie’s body was found.
  — Christopher Williams, Sun Journal (lewiston, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Jan. 2022
• The piece is a great multitasker for dorm rooms or cramped kids’ rooms.
  — Rachel Dube, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 July 2023
• The cops now have probable cause and set out to search Tariq’s dorm room.
  — Kyesha Jennings, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2021
• The bathroom doors leading to both dorm rooms can’t be locked.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 13 Oct. 2022
• If this were a college dorm and a student is the bullseye, the first ring is the roommate.
  — Mark Kortepeter, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021
• The group assumed that people wouldn’t want to pay tons of money to stay in a dorm.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2021
• Go for a Twin XL-sized blanket, the standard dorm bed size.
  — Elisa Cinelli, Parents, 21 Mar. 2025
• Great for dorm rooms, offices, campers, RVs, and more, this has cast iron hot plates.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 2 July 2021
• 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
• Outside the dorm, there was a taxi waiting, and the sky was dark, odd for the early morning.
  — Charisma Madarang, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2022
• Lighting candles in dorms pose a fire risk, but college students can still enjoy candles with this candle warmer lamp.
  — Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 3 June 2025
• Johnson and another inmate, Trevon Wallace, were able to escape the jail after an inmate in their dorm flooded a shower at around 4:15 p.m.
  — Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 24 May 2025