How to Use dormitory in a Sentence

dormitory

noun

• Guests at the camp can stay in private cabins or for a smaller fee in the dormitories.
• Downs and Dazer lived on the third floor of the dormitory.
  — Christopher Williams, Sun Journal (lewiston, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Jan. 2022
• The women were put in the men’s dormitory and the men stayed in motor courts.
  — From Express-News Archives, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Mar. 2018
• The minute Charlayne Hunter comes out of the dormitory and leaves.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2021
• One house was the school, while the other was a convent and dormitory.
  — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022
• The boys have been trained to care for their own dormitories and building.
  — Sheila McCann, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Sep. 2023
• The two were placed in the same dormitory, and magic ensued.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2022
• Inside, the walls were whitewashed, and the doors to the dormitories were painted black.
  — Susan Goldman Rubin, Time, 13 Mar. 2018
• Still, the mood in the men’s tent is one of dormitory camaraderie.
  — Byjon Cohen, science.org, 9 Dec. 2024
• One block from my dormitory was a tiny store called Cheapo Records.
  — Shirley Halperin, chicagotribune.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• The two lived in the same dormitory, according to the lawsuit.
  — Sam Blum, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2020
• Because of her race, she was not allowed to live in the dormitories or eat in the dining halls.
  — Bonnie L. Cook, Philly.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• While some inmates are housed two-to-a-cell, many are in open dormitories.
  — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 24 Mar. 2020
• The dormitory’s entrance will be off Pratt Street and could provide a boost, adding up to 200 students to the area.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 1 June 2025
• The younger age groups would leave their dormitories to watch the senior games and debate who would be the next one to leave for Denmark.
  — Jordan Campbell, The Athletic, 9 Aug. 2024
• To start, there was the dormitory shared by thirty boys.
  — Ian McEwan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• The cops took him to a dormitory in Chernobyl, where some workers live.
  — Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root, 30 Jan. 2018
• The set has been redesigned: a huge X (no) and O (yes) is now the centerpiece of the player dormitories.
  — Chad De Guzman, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
• Anas joined the group of boys streaming out of the dormitory and toward the compound’s cement walls.
  — Joe Parkinson, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2020
• In the city centre, the windows of a dormitory that serves a chemical plant had been blown out.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 1 May 2023
• Sarah Braash: For calling the cops on a woman sleeping on the couch in her dormitory.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 6 June 2018
• There was a restaurant on the ground floor of their dormitory at Harvard, called the Quincy House Grille.
  — Fortune, 18 May 2021
• With Keesler in the mix, trainees could be spaced out in dormitories at Lackland, sleeping nine feet apart.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 26 May 2020
• During the attack, a dormitory was burned and food in a store was looted, said the spokesman, Fred Enanga.
  — Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 17 June 2023
• The fire is believed to have started in a dormitory for 17 girls on Monday.
  — Staff Author, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2022
• There also is a detailed set of rules for the hundreds of workers who live in dormitories at the tracks.
  — Rich Exner, cleveland, 15 May 2020
• In that case, the gunman first killed two people at a dormitory.
  — Sean Murphy, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2022
• In that case, the gunman first killed two people at a dormitory.
  — Sean Murphy, Chron, 3 June 2022
• Inmates live in dormitory style housing with cubicles housing four to eight beds.
  — Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 1 Aug. 2025
• For many, the relationship with tequila ended in their early 20s with promises made to some dormitory deity — often made of porcelain — to end a miserable night’s agony.
  — Todd Harmonson, Oc Register, 4 Aug. 2025