How to Use dorm in a Sentence

dorm

noun

• We all lived in the same dorm during our sophomore year.
• The three returned to the plaintiff’s dorm, and the roommate went to bed.
  — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2023
• 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
• Children must be at least 6 years old to stay in a dorm.
  — The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2024
• 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 piece is a great multitasker for dorm rooms or cramped kids’ rooms.
  — Rachel Dube, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• When Nguyen was a senior at Harvard, she was raped in her dorm.
  — Kathleen Hou, ELLE, 28 Mar. 2023
• This included flights, Ubers to and from the airport, and dorm supplies.
  — Ellie Stevens, CNN, 26 Aug. 2023
• The graduate can hang it as wall art in their dorm room or in their first apartment.
  — Angela Belt, House Beautiful, 29 Mar. 2023
• Guests can choose to book its private rooms or go no-frills by staying in its dorms.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2023
• While Laura was moving in during the fall of 1990, her parents snapped the first of many photos of her in the dorm.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• Your son, Brian, is crossing the street on his way back to his college dorm when he gets hit by a car.
  — Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2023
• And come August, Anna will pack up her life and make a two-hour drive to set up her new dorm room in Chapel Hill.
  — Currie Engel, Women's Health, 22 June 2023
• For meals, teams can get catered meals delivered to the dorm or eat at Kroger Field − UK's football field.
  — Chloe Peterson, The Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2023
• It’s designed to fit on any form of bed, from metal dorm beds and lofted dorm beds to dorm beds with side rails.
  — Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 28 Aug. 2023
• One afternoon a couple weeks later, the phone rang in my dorm room.
  — Bud Geracie, The Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2024
• Josh is not strong enough to keep the demon from escaping, but Dalton is able to close the Red Door from his dorm room.
  — Shannon Carlin, Time, 7 July 2023
• The smell of this reminded me of old socks and there was an odd taste, like the sticky floor of a dorm basement after years of parties.
  — Lucas Kwan Peterson, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• Katz and the other staff would later find a message written on a wall inside a dorm room.
  — Eben Brown, Fox News, 28 Dec. 2023
• They can be styled everywhere from dorm rooms to nurseries.
  — Poppy Morgan, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023
• Devi ends the show with Ben, with the pair cuddling together in Devi’s dorm room.
  — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2023
• Senior Prom, say, or perhaps the décor of his freshman dorm room.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
• The sign is currently growing mold in his dorm-room closet.
  — Lisa Bonos, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2023
• All this can be a lot to digest for someone who was still cleaning a dorm room at Stanford just over a month ago.
  — Doug Ferguson, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2023
• Setting up a dorm room or cozy kitchen is not a problem with this compact model.
  — Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2023
• The vibrant and on-trend pieces are perfect for a kids’ playroom, dorm room or outdoor living space.
  — Ryan Conner, Dallas News, 18 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024