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Example sentences for "dormitories"

Lexicographically close words:
dormer; dormers; dormi; dormice; dormir; dormitory; dorp; dors; dorsad; dorsal
  1. Immediately after dinner they rushed to their dormitories to don their best dresses in honour of Leonard.

  2. The Morgan Laboratory of Physics, the Harrison Laboratory of Chemistry, the Gymnasium, and the Dormitories are all notable structures.

  3. To attract the best type of women the munition plants are putting up dormitories to accommodate hundreds of workers, and are making their plants more attractive, with rest rooms and hospital accommodation.

  4. The dormitories were like soldiers' barrack-rooms, in perfect order.

  5. The speakers were the youths who occupied Dormitories Numbers 3 and 4, at the rear of the main upper hall.

  6. A few of the boys from the other dormitories had been invited, and the boys took turns in standing out in the hall on guard.

  7. The condition of those dormitories is infamous.

  8. The men go to their work without a murmur, and slink to their dormitories like whipped hounds to kennel.

  9. If Sister has really put you into different dormitories at last, she has my heartfelt gratitude!

  10. There were complaints enough of you last term, and if I'd had my way you'd have been in different dormitories altogether.

  11. And to the tune of "The Coster's Wedding" the Middle School marched out of the gymnasium and repaired to its various dormitories to get ready for tea.

  12. After breakfast the girls retired to their dormitories to make their beds and tidy their cubicles.

  13. At night a blaze of gas in the outer hall lights all the dormitories and the corridor which runs round outside the jail, thus rendering escape as difficult at night as in broad daylight.

  14. The rooms and dormitories are large and airy, and carriages and horses are ready for such as the physician recommends should take that exercise.

  15. Randall was not a rich college, and, in consequence, the dormitories and study apartments were not elaborately furnished.

  16. Farther to the rear of the main structure were two buildings that contained dormitories and rooms for the three hundred or more students.

  17. One by one, by twos and threes or in small groups, silent figures stole away from dormitories that night and gathered about the pavilion or the boathouse, which was not far from it.

  18. I thought of that, and I forwarded a message by wireless to all the dormitories that if Pitchfork sent around to borrow some glad rags, he was to be refused on some pretext or other.

  19. Lights were burning in fraternity houses and dormitories until late at night, and mighty little of their glow was shed on poker parties and crap games.

  20. The dormitories were dim masses broken by rectangles of soft yellow light.

  21. The dormitories were strangely quiet at night.

  22. The arrangement of the dormitories was peculiar.

  23. I find that there was the utmost disorder in the dormitories yesterday evening.

  24. He walked slowly up and down the range of dormitories until every boy seemed ready to get into bed, and then he put out all the candles.

  25. The consequence was, that in these dormitories the boys felt perfectly secure from any interruption.

  26. The great refectory and the dormitories possessed charms of their own, bright colors everywhere greeting the eye and nothing being allowed that could inspire or promote melancholy moods or painful thoughts.

  27. The scholars' dormitories were narrow cell-like affairs, scantily furnished, in which every light must be extinguished at the hour of nine in the evening.

  28. The girls had finished working in the dormitories and had gone below.

  29. He walked slowly and thoughtfully along, looking at the dormitories with unseeing eyes and hearing with deaf ears the noise of the cadets getting ready for bed.

  30. On the north side of the quadrangle near the Tower, a young watch officer paused in front of one of the dormitories and scanned the darkened windows of the durasteel and crystal building.

  31. Both units were extremely popular and the arguments raged through the dormitories as to which unit was at fault.

  32. Now," said Stalky at bedtime, making pilgrimage through the dormitories before the prefects came by, "now what have you got to say for yourselves?

  33. The number of dormitories varies according to the size of the hall, and in the larger ones pillars support the roof on all three sides, forming a sort of cloister running round the hall.

  34. To left and right, and at the back, dormitories are excavated opening on to this hall, and in the centre of the back, facing the entrance, an image of the Buddha usually stands in a niche.

  35. Cellars, with dormitories for connected with the infirmary.

  36. By half-past nine lights were going out in the dormitories and presently quiet reigned over the white buildings on the hill and the stars, sending down their radiance from a clear sky, presaged fair weather for the great contest.

  37. Two fair-sized bedrooms, and a garret in which the servants could not be persuaded to sleep, served as dormitories for the whole school; the younger children sleeping two together.

  38. What do you mean by allowing the dormitories to get into this state of uproar?

  39. Jack was assigned to one of the large dormitories and found himself associated with Harry Dickson and a number of boys whom he had seen very little of when it came time to go to bed at ten o'clock that night.

  40. After supper, when the boys were all supposed to be in the general schoolroom, Billy got a chance to go up to the dormitories in order to prepare for the little joke upon Jack.

  41. There are other places besides the dormitories to work in," said Herring.

  42. The lights were extinguished from a switch-board in the doctor's room as soon as the clock struck, so that it was not necessary to go up to the dormitories at all.

  43. In the two dormitories overlooking the quad, the last tongue had long been still, and in the utter silence Heriot's voice sounded in startled greeting on his side of the house.

  44. But Joyce had left, and Crabtree had taken charge of one of the long dormitories overlooking the quad.

  45. The purity of the water and the care exercised in screening kitchens, mess halls, and later the dormitories themselves, from flies is seen in the hospital record for the first year of the war.

  46. Nor were the freshmen obliged to refrain from residence in dormitories where their “betters” were housed, though there were some fraternity houses sacred to certain classes alone.

  47. Numbers one to four, ladies and gentlemen," said the doctor, "include the dormitories of the attendants.

  48. The Resident Dispenser and the Head Nurse appeared, on their way to the dormitories of the attendants at the top of the house.

  49. If you'd managed to catch it in term time it would have been a real excitement, and perhaps it would have spread, and we should have had one of the dormitories turned into a nice little hospital.

  50. The word "fire" would start a panic on the instant, although both dormitories were across the campus from the main hall.

  51. The wisdom of erecting the two dormitories so far apart, and so far separated from the other buildings, was now apparent.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dormitories" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.