dormitory

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Recent Examples of dormitory February 20, 2025 ON THIS WEEK’S episode of Dinner SOS, test kitchen director and host Chris Morocco is joined by test kitchen editor Jesse Szewczyk to help Karen, a busy graduate student dealing with the limits of a dormitory kitchen, on her quest to find no-cook lunch recipe solutions. Bon Appétit, 20 Feb. 2025 Sprawling dormitory resorts like Fregene and Ladispoli are up next: seaside cities that double as Rome’s seaside. Lee Marshall, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2025 The plaintiff further claims that the school hired Rabbi Ephraim Shapiro in 1972 as a dormitory counselor, a former employee who had been forced to retire years before because of child abuse allegations. Glynis Kazanjian, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2025 Some goes to capital projects, and others must be held to ensure low interest rates when borrowing for dormitory and other construction work. Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 26 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dormitory
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Noun
  • This chair feels right at home in playrooms, entertainment rooms, dorm rooms, and living rooms alike.
    Kathleen Felton, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 May 2025
  • By then, homicide detectives were at Catina's dorm talking to Marks.
    Erin Moriarty, Liza Finley, CBS News, 4 May 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
  • Authorities belatedly removed the girl from the flophouse, which did not go over well with Ronald Joseph.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 2 Apr. 2025
  • One regular, Milt, lived in the Whitehouse Hotel, a flophouse around the corner.
    Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025

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