Example sentences for: dorms

How can you use “dorms” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Earlier this week, a freshman at Yale, a religious Jew, wrote an NYT op-ed complaining that the casual sex atmosphere of the coed dorms Yale is requiring him to live in meant Yale was forcing him to violate his religious principles.

  • Recent markers of black separatism include the Louis Farrakhan-sponsored Million Man March of 1995, to which only African-American men were invited; the debate over the teaching in public schools of Ebonics , the so-called African-American dialect; the establishment of exclusively African-American dorms on college campuses; and single-race schools , which are even supported by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, because he believes they will promote the self-esteem of African-American students.

  • Sure, I find it interesting to read that some people have fun playing Boggle and touring the dorms together, but is this a good way to find an answer to a question that uses "hotbed" and "sexual abandon" in the same sentence?

  • Today's NYT contains a letter from the Yale Dean, who doesn't address the op-ed's charges that in Yale co-ed dorms, students are frequently forced into "sexile" while their roommates are having sex, and that the halls are full of people of the opposite gender in various stages of undress.

  • It's not that the rich kids don't party as determinedly as the poor ones, it's that the dorms are prowled by sadistic faculty watchdogs such as Mr. Funderburk (Tim Crowe), as well as by students happy to rat out their peers if it means getting into an Ivy League school.


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