dorm

Example Sentences

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Sitting in his dorm room at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Benjamin Brundage was closing in on a mystery that had even seasoned internet investigators baffled.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The trucker catalogs diesel prices each time she fuels up for the roughly 500-mile round trip she makes six nights a week hauling modular dorm rooms from outside Los Angeles to California Polytechnic State University.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

By 2024, he was working at a sweater factory, sending money home, and returning from his dorm with chocolates for his infant daughter, spending evenings watching cartoons on TV.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026

Ablaye, whose name has also been changed, came to retrieve some of his personal belongings from his dorm.

From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026

And I almost do—I even creep back into the dorm, to her bed.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy