dormitory

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Recent Examples of dormitory Endeavor expects that on-campus dormitories will serve as a pipeline for Morado. Kate Marijolovic, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 June 2025 To the generation that exclusively wore spongy thong sandals in dormitory showers, the concept of high-fashion flip-flops might sound like an oxymoron. Sam Reed, Glamour, 29 May 2025 Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a student dormitory in Holosiivskyi district was hit by a drone and one of the building’s walls was on fire. Samya Kullab, Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2025 Millions of Chinese workers migrate to the factories – toiling from summer until Chinese New Year and living in dormitories near football-field sized factories, noted the Times. Peter Cohan, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for dormitory
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Noun
  • Both documents allege Fleming and two other San Jose State players snuck out of the team hotel in Colorado the night before the Oct. 3 match, and went to the dorm room of Colorado State player Malaya Jones.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 24 June 2025
  • Alongside its many functional offices and dorms, the complex contains a post office, gym, movie theater, an outdoor food court and a dining hall, a recreational pool and a large gathering plaza used to host outdoor entertainment and social functions.
    Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • Her cousin becomes suspicious when Levi returns to the boardinghouse alone.
    Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2025
  • True enough, perhaps, but Isabel was not pleased on finding herself in the company of boardinghouse people.
    Charles Portis, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The place had opened a year and half before on the ground floor of a notorious Bowery flophouse called, with perfect New York irony, the Palace Hotel.
    Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025
  • And then there are all of Gov. Healey’s foreign freeloader flophouses.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 4 June 2025

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