Dorms is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Dorms meaning
plural of dorm
Using Dorms
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of dorm
- In the example corpus, dorms often appears in combinations such as: the dorms, dorms and, their dorms.
Context around Dorms
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dorms
- In this selection, "dorms" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, campus, school, sex, used, buildings and due stand out and add context to how "dorms" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and lang dorms participate in and and shared dorms are home. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dorms" sits close to words such as adhesive, aleppo and apprehend, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dorms
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Tents and shared dorms are home. (6 words)
I took care of the dorms for my university. (9 words)
Immediately after the news broke, students rushed out of their dorms. (11 words)
From the time that the first dorm opened in 1915 until the fall of 1968, the nine north campus dorms were exclusively for male students, and the six south campus dorms were reserved for female students. (36 words)
He was notably resilient on account of the fact that during one service, everything was going wrong, and nearly all of his teammates had been sent back to the dorms one by one by Ramsay. (35 words)
On my plane to NYC, I kept wondering why the Stanford in New York program would choose that our dorms be located in Brooklyn as opposed to Manhattan, the heart of the city. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Lee said infections in dorms used by foreign workers that caused cases to spike to more than 42,000 have declined, while cases outside the dorms have stabilized.
From the time that the first dorm opened in 1915 until the fall of 1968, the nine north campus dorms were exclusively for male students, and the six south campus dorms were reserved for female students.
A cute, convenient single-serve maker that can slip into small spaces is surprisingly useful — particularly for people in apartments, RVs, and dorms.
But 10 years after they were abducted from their high school dorms by Boko Haram terrorists, over 100 Chibok Nigerian teenage girls are still missing.
He was notably resilient on account of the fact that during one service, everything was going wrong, and nearly all of his teammates had been sent back to the dorms one by one by Ramsay.
Immediately after the news broke, students rushed out of their dorms.
In 2011, John Garvey, who was then president of Catholic University, announced that the school would be be reinstituting single-sex dorms after having coed ones for decades.
I took care of the dorms for my university.
Kentucky’s colleges and universities are prioritizing the student life experience: new dorms, buildings, student centers and dining options, as well as opportunities for non-traditional students to engage.
Love is in the air, and the classrooms, and the dorms.
Making friends in the dorms will be much easier if there is a place for people to write their contact information or certain messages.
On my plane to NYC, I kept wondering why the Stanford in New York program would choose that our dorms be located in Brooklyn as opposed to Manhattan, the heart of the city.
Over time, more students began to park in G11, a lot situated among dorms and a short walk from a campus market.
Robert Mathews ’71, who graduated from Comstock, explained that Radcliffe had historically “inferior dorms” due to the disparity of resources devoted to all-female housing.
Since Neconie and others attended, thousands of Native students have walked through the school’s halls and dorms.
Some like Service sleep there each night while others only stay during the day, rotating so students can keep up with classes and return to their dorms for showers.
Students who settled back into their dorms after winter break, ready to do laundry, found a surprise waiting for them: new washing machines.
Tents and shared dorms are home.
The Adler and Lang dorms participate in an off-campus activity.
The Notre Dame Glee Club is doing a new take on the traditional candy gram with “song-grams,” Valentine’s-themed vocal performances at women’s dorms across campus.
Common combinations with dorms
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the dorms 39×
- dorms and 18×
- their dorms 11×
- in dorms 10×
- dorms are 7×
- dorms to 6×
- dorms or 6×
- dorms have 5×
- dorms for 5×
- campus dorms 4×