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.
• No new tents or dormitories can be added.
  — Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
• The boys have been trained to care for their own dormitories and building.
  — Sheila McCann, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Sep. 2023
• Combs is staying in a dormitory-style unit in the prison.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 1 Nov. 2025
• While some inmates are housed two-to-a-cell, many are in open dormitories.
  — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 24 Mar. 2020
• The hotel staff moved us to their own dormitory higher up on the land to rest.
  — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 4 May 2026
• 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
• That meant catching buses and trains to and from my home or dormitory.
  — Ibrahim Onafeko, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Mar. 2021
• One block from my dormitory was a tiny store called Cheapo Records.
  — Shirley Halperin, chicagotribune.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• One house was the school, while the other was a convent and dormitory.
  — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022
• On my dormitory floor at the time, a few doors down, was a fellow named Nashad.
  — Bill Keane, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2026
• In that case, the gunman first killed two people at a dormitory.
  — Sean Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2022
• Still, the mood in the men’s tent is one of dormitory camaraderie.
  — Byjon Cohen, science.org, 9 Dec. 2024
• On the drive back to her dormitory, Daisy sees that the florist’s shop has been ransacked.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2026
• The large dormitory room smelled of babies' breath and pillow drool.
  — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 15 Feb. 2026
• One couple is lucky to get a room of their own instead of dormitory shared with half a dozen others.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Players live in a large dormitory, get to know each other and then play to send each other home.
  — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2026
• The dormitory in the prison where that inmate was housed was placed on quarantine.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 2 July 2020
• At seafood plants, the women sleep in bunk beds in locked dormitories, sometimes thirty to a room.
  — Ian Urbina, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2024
• The cops took him to a dormitory in Chernobyl, where some workers live.
  — Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root, 30 Jan. 2018
• The women live in dormitory-style rooms without doors.
  — Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2026
• No one was injured, but one of the fires was set in a dormitory that also housed a day care where children were present.
  — Sarah Horner, Twin Cities, 17 Dec. 2019
• The minute Charlayne Hunter comes out of the dormitory and leaves.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2021
• Inside, the walls were whitewashed, and the doors to the dormitories were painted black.
  — Susan Goldman Rubin, Time, 13 Mar. 2018
• 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
• Kurt later found his son in a dormitory in Austria.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 9 Oct. 2025
• In the city centre, the windows of a dormitory that serves a chemical plant had been blown out.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 1 May 2023
• The two lived in the same dormitory, according to the lawsuit.
  — Sam Blum, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2020
• Anas joined the group of boys streaming out of the dormitory and toward the compound’s cement walls.
  — Joe Parkinson, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2020