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Get to know Dormitory better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like dorm or chamber.

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Dormitory in a sentence

Dormitory meaning

  1. A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind.
  2. A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities.
  3. A dormitory town.

Synonyms of Dormitory

dorm chamber sleeping room bedroom dorm room dormitory room edifice building quarters living quarters student residence hall residence hall bedchamber

Related words

Other words often associated with Dormitory or its synonyms:

room construction structure housing lodging enclosure vestibule business house corridor assemblage lobby

Using Dormitory

  • The main meaning on this page is: A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind. | A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities. | A dormitory town.
  • Useful related words include: dorm, chamber, sleeping room, bedroom.
  • In the example corpus, dormitory often appears in combinations such as: the dormitory, dormitory and, dormitory at.

Context around Dormitory

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 29.1 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 11 middle, 8 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

school 3× girls 1× intramural 1× shabby 1× campus 1×

Often after:

block 1× bulletin 1× basketball 1× drew 1× similar 1× spot 1× room 1× roommate 1× left 1× fire 1×

Sentence patterns with Dormitory

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

a campus dormitory similar to 1× an intramural dormitory basketball team 1× behind this dormitory block as 1× big shabby dormitory 1× boy s dormitory and other 1× burning a dormitory and looting 1× center and dormitory drew university 1× for a dormitory and chapel 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

about 40 arrived 1× an oct 19 1× an unidentified person 1× apart from a 1× august raudvassar a 1× bleeding profusely from 1×

Common sentence endings:

and a canteen 1× attack last year 1× be renovated soon 1× big shabby dormitory 1× chief andrii nebytov 1× dormitory basketball team 1×

Words around Dormitory

Just before it in the word index:

dormitories 94 dormition 9 dormify 3 dormice 4 dormeshia 2 dormers 7

Just after it in the word index:

dormont 2 dormouse 2 dorms 141 dormuth 2 dorn 44 dorna 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

aol 154 arran 154 autoimmune 154 carefree 154 cashless 154 confesses 154

Corpus analysis for Dormitory

  • In this selection, "dormitory" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, school, girls, intramural, block, bulletin and basketball stand out and add context to how "dormitory" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a campus dormitory similar to and an intramural dormitory basketball team. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "dormitory" sits close to words such as aol, arran and autoimmune, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with dormitory

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Reportedly, 63 female students were present in the dormitory at the time of the fire. (15 words)

Daguinsin, 22, was found lifeless with 14 stab wounds on March 28 inside her dormitory room. (16 words)

About 40 arrived in Otaru on the northern island of Hokkaido, where they were housed in a big, shabby dormitory. (20 words)

Longer example sentences

The flag-raising ceremony to usher in Guyana’s 57th independence anniversary was transformed into an evening of prayer and reflection in honour of the 19 students who lost their lives in the Mahdia Secondary School dormitory fire on Sunday last. (41 words)

During the first summer of camps in 1953, campers utilized the old school building for a dormitory and chapel, an open pavilion for a dining hall, a pond for swimming, a grassy area for tent camping and springs for water. (40 words)

Members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan group based in eastern Congo that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State, attacked Lhubirira secondary school in Mpondwe, burning a dormitory and looting food late on Friday, police said. (38 words)

Example sentences (20)

However, he was enthused about completion of a boy’s dormitory and other ongoing development at the vocational school at Abura and pledged that the girls' dormitory would be renovated soon.

Bleeding profusely from his wounds, the deceased managed to climb the wall back to the School compound and fell behind this dormitory block as he could not make it to the dormitory for help, Superintendent Bediako said.

They give the following example of the interplay between these factors: Someone puts an announcement on the dormitory bulletin board about the formation of an intramural dormitory basketball team.

About 40 arrived in Otaru on the northern island of Hokkaido, where they were housed in a big, shabby dormitory.

An Oct. 19 dedication ceremony for the combined student center and dormitory drew university leaders, rabbis and students, as well as Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

An unidentified person placed numerous large swastikas on the walls inside the bathroom of a campus dormitory, similar to a previous attack last year.

Apart from a dormitory and five rooms, the BJP office where the two are holed up has a common toilet and a canteen.

August Raudvassar, a second-year student at Tartu Health College, told ERR he did not apply for a dormitory spot this year because he knew how hard it would be.

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Daguinsin, 22, was found lifeless with 14 stab wounds on March 28 inside her dormitory room.

During the first summer of camps in 1953, campers utilized the old school building for a dormitory and chapel, an open pavilion for a dining hall, a pond for swimming, a grassy area for tent camping and springs for water.

He said that he never did but had a dormitory roommate who was playing it, where he was watching him play the game.

In this photo provided by Wang Xi, students evacuate from their dormitory at the Lanzhou University Yuzhong campus in Lanzhou in northwestern China's Gansu province Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023, after an earthquake hit the area.

Members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan group based in eastern Congo that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State, attacked Lhubirira secondary school in Mpondwe, burning a dormitory and looting food late on Friday, police said.

Migrants grieve in front at a Mexican immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, March 28, 2023, where a fire in a dormitory left more than three dozen migrants dead.

Mpondwe-Lhubiriha Mayor Selevest Mapoze told The Associated Press that some of the students suffered fatal burns when a dormitory was set on fire.

Reportedly, 63 female students were present in the dormitory at the time of the fire.

The body of a 40-year-old man was pulled from the rubble on a dormitory’s fifth floor, according to regional police chief Andrii Nebytov.

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Shalimar Ali-Hack, has recommended that 19 murder charges be instituted against the teenager who allegedly started last Sunday’s tragic fire at the Mahdia Secondary School Dormitory, according to well-placed sources.

The flag-raising ceremony to usher in Guyana’s 57th independence anniversary was transformed into an evening of prayer and reflection in honour of the 19 students who lost their lives in the Mahdia Secondary School dormitory fire on Sunday last.

The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association has extended deepest condolences to the families, relatives and friends of those who lost their lives in the tragic fire at the Mahdia Secondary School dormitory Sunday night.

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Common combinations with dormitory

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "dormitory" in a sentence?
An example: "However, he was enthused about completion of a boy’s dormitory and other ongoing development at the vocational school at Abura and pledged that the girls' dormitory would be renovated soon." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "dormitory" from authentic English texts.
What does "dormitory" mean?
Dormitory means: A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind.
What are synonyms of "dormitory"?
Common synonyms of "dormitory" include: dorm, chamber, sleeping room, bedroom, dorm room, dormitory room, edifice, building. Plus 6 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "dormitory" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "dormitory", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.