How to Use prom in a Sentence

prom

noun

• Are you going to the prom?
• On the day of its prom next month, Payson plans to pitch in 5,000 kits.
  — Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• To the shock of Jennifer's friends, Lopez was her high school sweetheart and date to the prom.
  — Allie Weintraub, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2023
• At 17 she was honored as the prom queen at her high school.
  — Barbara Davidson, Washington Post, 27 July 2022
• Some of the kids became dates to weddings and high school prom.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2022
• Let your pups dance the night away after crowning them king and queen of the prom.
  — Blair Donovan, Country Living, 20 Sep. 2022
• The lights dimmed in the hall, which looked more suited to a high-school prom than a concert, and the mosh pit opened.
  — Adlan Jackson, The New Yorker, 19 July 2022
• The season ends on an eventful prom night with the Truham and Higgs kids.
  — Elle.com, ELLE, 8 Aug. 2023
• Molly [Andie] ends up at the prom with Duckie, her friend.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 30 Oct. 2023
• No one did, but a cousin sent me a photo of Trina at her high-school prom.
  — Jenisha Watts, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2023
• In April 2021, an Ohio high school crowned a lesbian couple as prom king and queen.
  — Jay Valle, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2023
• But that sullen teenager left his bedroom, got dolled-up, and took himself to the prom!
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
• And so your feed is no longer made up of your high school friends or your prom date from seven years ago.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2023
• For her senior prom, Rowan chose to wear the red strapless gown that her mom wore to the 1998 Golden Globe Awards.
  — Francesca Gariano, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2022
• By the time prom rolled around this spring, giddiness fully had set in.
  — oregonlive, 2 June 2023
• Below, shop some dupes and prom dresses based on Dove's 'fit.
  — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 24 Mar. 2023
• She was named to her school's prom court and played both basketball and soccer.
  — Jolene Latimer, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2022
• The band playing the high school prom is named Dusk; Kovacs notes that the singer went on to become quite famous.
  — Wayne Parry, Fortune, 22 June 2023
• Is a permit needed for wedding and prom photos at the Domes?
  — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2024
• The rundown of events includes a restaurant round-up, live music night and prom events for both teens and adults.
  — Kiran Saini, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2022
• Set in 1993, Cameron is sent to conversion camp after she's caught canoodling in the backseat of a car with her school's prom queen.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 30 May 2022
• Parents will take their children out of schools, fearing that CRT will ask their daughters to the prom.
  — Damon Young, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2022
• Fairmont High’s new prom king was announced first: Green.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
• That Lonnie once paid him to shoot the prom pics of a boy in the neighborhood because the boy’s mother couldn’t afford them.
  — Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• My girls, their proms, their softball games, soccer games.
  — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• Seniors aren't the only students that get to enjoy prom.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 17 Nov. 2022
• Being too young to drive to his junior prom meant that Mr. Barron had to double-date with a friend who could drive.
  — Baltimore Sun, 3 Sep. 2022
• Teen rites of passage are often mined in pop culture: prom, a first kiss, and for some reason, food fights.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 15 June 2022
• In the picture, the Tonight Show host poses in a black tux alongside his prom date — wearing a pale pink gown — in front of a soft blue backdrop.
  — Diane J. Cho, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2023
• In the spring of 2013, Mahomes and Matthews attended their school prom together.
  — Jacklyn Krol, PEOPLE.com, 27 June 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024