How To Use Dorm In A Sentence

I just stayed the dorm to around and shoot the breeze with a couple of friends.
Instead, I was stuck in my little dorm room, answering the phone every time it rang in case it was Clay.
And that is exactly why I say "intelligence" in the context of ID is a dormitive principle: Bunny and a Book
I'm not sure what Laurie from Manly Dorm might be referring to as hate mongering (although I see that talking about secession is divisive), but I'd like to point out it's not hateful to say the Bush administration is antidemocratic, plutocratic and militarily adventuristic. American Coastopia!
Kirkland is a lovely city nestled on Lake Washington, with views of the water, the Seattle skyline, and of course Mount Rainier, which is by far the area's most impressive and hopefully most dormant volcano. Archive 2007-10-01

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It was not unknown for an unexploded portion of an old charge to remain dormant but active for years under such conditions.
Dormant until today, the Olympic tennis stadium suddenly erupted when the Greek heroine came from a set down to gain momentum in the second session.
In the spirit of the colonial revival, they replaced the Victorian era mansard roof with a hip roof with dormers, removed the two-story service wing, replaced windows and doors, and restored or embellished interior woodwork.
Reducing environmental noise while one is trying to sleep can be particularly challenging - especially in university dormitories.
The foundation, which helps make the dreams of poorly boys and girls come true, arranged for Chloe to meet some dolphins at an aquarium in Benidorm.
He lived in the dorm as a resident adviser.
Shulman CE, Dorman EK, Cutts F, Kawuondo K, Bulmer JN, et al. (1999) Intermittent sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine to prevent severe anaemia secondary to malaria in pregnancy: a randomised placebo-controlled trial. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
That night, I lay on my dorm bed coughing up sawdust. Times, Sunday Times
An official decision by the authorities to switch off electricity to student dormitories at 11 p.m. led to unrest on campus.
All retroviruses are similar, and our genome is full of dormant retroviruses - over 2 percent of the genome is retroviral.
Finally, circuits in his brain that had long been dormant lit up. Times, Sunday Times
One after another the _antichi spiriti dolenti_ rise up and salute the new edifice: Nimrod and the Assyrians, Anglo-Saxon ealdormen and Norman knights templars, and citizens of ancient Bristol. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
He had been accepted to a good college somewhere in Florida and would be leaving in a few short months to get settled into a dorm.
During the summer, if we came to the school, we had always hung out in the Quad between the dorms or my room.
They may arise from dormant seeds, or colonise by windblown seeds.
If the catkins remain dormant when the pistillate flowers bloom, they have been winterkilled, and the bent down reserves have to be called up. Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948
After high school she tried college but got thrown out for raising coonhounds in her dorm room.
This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
Feed herbs once a week when plants are actively growing, but not when dormant.
These could be courses in the bottom of dormant volcanoes, on isolated islands, or atop unfathomably high mountaintops.
Thinking of a nice warm heated dorm as she walked through the desolate streets, her mind began to wander.
She can continue living in her Job Corps dorm while she earns her associate of arts degree.
Standards of plants not requiring dormant cycles, such as bougainvillea, hibiscus, ivies or geraniums, have a simple winter culture.
For instance, you need only drive a few miles out from Benidorm to discover narrow mountain roads that twist through pine forests.
It was a small room with a dormer window overlooking the railway line. TOY SHOP
It's anyone's guess, then, why he leaves his instruments dormant for much of this show in favour of splenetic rants and ruthless aggression towards his increasingly miserable audience.
Although the intention was to create new and independent economic and cultural centers, most of the satellite towns remain economically dependent on Beijing, and have only become dormitory towns," Jeffrey Johnson, who specializes in Chinese megacities at New York's Columbia University, said in emailed comments. Reuters: Press Release
It has a cosmogonic function, in that it rouses dormant energies which them may shape the world.
The really scary part is that, while all these symptoms can clear up by themselves, the disease can lie dormant in your system for decades before damaging vitals such as your nervous system and heart.
These include retirement areas, over spill towns, industrial centres, commuting dormitories and traditional market centres.
They stop work, attend to and resolve before sleep any inharmonious conditions that may arise, knowing that creativity lies dormant while conflict prevails.
His long search had brought him to this haunted city - where ghosts of the past were still not dormant.
Much of her time in France she lived in dormered attics like that. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
Squirrels, badgers, dormice, and larger animals such as deer are greedy for it.
A few unexpected moves push these time-honored forms into the modern world: extreme angles to the roof pitches, compressed fenestration with staggered window sizes, and square dormers.
The dormitory accommodation is spartan. Times, Sunday Times
A real bonus of this property is the converted attic, an almost 14 square metre room with a large dormer window.
I would hate to have to share my dorm room with someone who either thinks I'm some kind of freak or a lunatic.
Population has continued to increase, since much of northern Cheshire has become an overspill or dormitory area for nearby Lancashire urban centres.
Down the years the latter used it as an agricultural exhibition hall, a school dormitory and a hospital ward.
TB is a condition which progresses slowly and can lay dormant for months.
The dcor in my apartment lingers somewhere between yard sale and college dorm. Fat Chance
You can zoom a bike around one of the many lakes, or follow a walking trail that leads to a dormant volcano. The Sun
Lesley, you'd better scram to your own dormy or Matey will ask questions. CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
Besides, it's your last year, and this school has dorms so that you can live there.
One evening in the winter of 1970-71, I was sitting in my dorm room in Beirut trying to explain these ideas to an Iranian theology student, Assurbanipal Babilla. Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
E adesso tutti in coro: Voglio dormire sul tuo petto stanotte, anche se puzzo di pesce… No Fat Clips!!! : TAKASHI TANIGUCHI – Mr. Ando of the Woods
The roof is low-pitched and small dormer windows are sometimes used.
It's noticeable that the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in Alfred's time, by which time it was being written more or less contemporarily with events, records celestial phenomena, consecrations of bishops and deaths of bishops, kings and ealdormen, but not births, not even the births of King Alfred's children. Acha of Deira and Bernicia: daughter, sister, wife and mother of kings
Summer months rushed by; the entire project seemed to lie dormant. Christianity Today
It is another one of those familiar dormitory towns that punctuate the south-east of England.
If, however, it takes place before, the male pronucleus simply remains dormant in the egg while the polar cells are being protruded, and not until after that process is concluded does it begin again to show signs of activity which result in the cell union. The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity
And at a given moment one of these, hitherto dormant and unsuspected, would suddenly begin to brew, and go on growing till he was all one senseless panic, blind flight the only catholicon. Ultima Thule
Dormancy is defined as the inability of a viable seed to germinate under conditions otherwise adequate for germination.
The university is proposing to build a new dormitory.
Casting one last almost venomous glance back over her shoulder at him, she headed back toward her dorm room.
Couples with families might see more benefit in suburbs, or dormitory towns.
By this time many cells will have been infected and the virus will lie dormant throughout the body. Times, Sunday Times
For decades the old garden had lain dormant and almost forgotten as many others of that period often do.
Could she stomach the knowledge of what he'd endured since he was taken from his boarding school dormitory?
Perhaps the exon is a protogene — one that's effectively dormant until it's switched on by some external factor. Sagittarius Whorl
There's just enough time to buy provisions for the journey before the long dormant sleeper train pulls up.
All our small towns would be turned into dormitory towns of Dublin.
Parents travelling to towns to find work were forced to stay in dormitories and leave their children behind in state care. Archive 2008-03-01
With the first frost in the fall, it goes dormant and changes from green in color to a straw or pale yellow-brown.
However, by then we'd bunked on yachts and in shared backpacker dorms.
But there was nothing but the unrelieved monotony of dormant fields, no significant growth yet awakened by the spring. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
Instead, all he received was yet another eye roll as I continued in the direction of my dorm.
I was five then, and had never been back, but I wanted to find that house, see if it would awake long dormant memories.
England are dormie two in a Test series that has seen Pakistan bowled out for 80 and 72, while the fielding of Butt's side was so inept at Edgbaston that they resembled a travelling troupe of jesters. Salman Butt: 'In these dark days for Pakistan, cricket can lift spirits'
If private credit is not used or rejected, then the operation of law which imposes the irrecusable obligation lies dormant and cannot apply.
When the elevator doors next opened, it was to a corridor identical to the one Elvis and Lucifel had left behind in the east wing of dormitories.
Recently, Jenkins used two pairs of paintings in a home at a slant where dormer windows met a wall in order to create height in a small space.
Come on then, I think I have some medicated wipes back in my dormitory.
My jaw hit the floor when the results came back that I was carrying a dormant cystic fibrosis gene. The Sun
China has recently revived maritime territorial claims that had been left dormant, and confronted the navies of other nations to assert those claims. Times, Sunday Times
-- Captain A. Carlton, late of the Light Dragoons, has just succeeded to the title and estates of his great grandfather, the late Earl of Castlemere, which title had lain dormant for several years, in consequence of the only son of the late nobleman never having assumed the title, and died in obscurity abroad, and we, learn that the new Earl is about to lead to the hymenial altar the beautiful Miss Vellenaux A Novel
It has almost 30 other dormant accounts with at least 50,000 in them. The Sun
I ran up to the school dormitory, and I called the nun sleeping there and told her to get the girls up.
The virus remains dormant in nerve tissue until activated.
Resolved That in the opinion of this Board it is inexperient for the University to undertake the building of additional dormitories, or boarding houses for the accommodation of students, unless & until it shall appear that suitable & sufficient accommodations will not be afforded by private enterprise on reasonable terms, & that it is Board of Visitors minutes
'Novi ego aliquem qui dormitabundus aliquando pulsari horam quartam audiverit, et sic numeravit, una, una, una, una; ac tum præ rei absurditate, quam anima concipiebat, exclamavit, Næ! delirat horologium! Literary Remains, Volume 1
Roo lifted one sleepy eyelid, then closed it again as she made her way to the padded bench in the nearest dormer. THIS HEART OF MINE
We added two students to that dorm room
Seed dormancy is an adaptation to environmental changes that plants acquire during long-term phylogenesis.
Shire and hundred courts administered local custom with the free-man suitors under the king's representative-ealdorman, shire-reeve, or hundred-reeve. 616-80
In class they would study hard; in the dorms they would be models of rectitude and self-discipline.
My first night there my friend dragged me to a party in one of the nearby dorms.
The prediction comes as campaigners paint a bleak future for native species such as dormice and bluebells. Home | Mail Online
2008 Arizona nondormant alfalfa, small grain variety brochures now available Western Farm Press RSS Feed
Since plumerias are dormant and stored in garages and greenhouses for the winter, I would repot it in a larger container in spring.
I returned to my dorm and dug around in the footlocker my mom had gotten me.
The three dormitories house 216 students, and a fourth building has common areas and recreational facilities.
We have in the "Battle of Maldon" a great patriotic poem, written about the "ealdorman" [H] of the East Angles, Byrthnoth, or Brihtnoth, who stood so valiantly against the Danes. Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days
The seeds of bristly sarsaparilla, currant, and soapberry lie dormant in the soil and germinate only after being burned; ecologists call the process ‘seed banking.’
Slow firing dormant ion-lights, we rotate counter-clockwise, along the azimuth, putting the Milky Way at our back, shaving seconds per meter off the tumble of our outbound trajectory. 365 tomorrows » submission : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Part two is main theories about the identification of dormant partners' shareholder qualification.
But all the warnings served only to stir emotions that had been dormant for so long. Times, Sunday Times
She sat, perched delicately on a stool at the bar that was right down the street from her dorm.
The hair-growth cycle consists of growth, regression (the hair falls out, destroying the lower part of the follicle), rest (the follicle is dormant), and re-initiation of growth (the follicle repairs itself and grows a new hair). Archive 2006-02-26
The next time I saw him, it was in the communal dorm bathroom, a pit of uncleanliness marked by vomit, bodily fluids, and the other detritus of intoxication and self-abuse. The Parable of the Spider
There's just enough time to buy provisions for the journey before the long dormant sleeper train pulls up.
In thickly settled nations, with few dormant resources, a long war usually produces industrial disorganization and financial exhaustion.
Under the stairs in one of the dormitories some unknown hand had written. DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America
If not, however, he's definitely tapped into powers that have been long dormant in design.
Within ten to thirty days between twenty to fifty new plants begin to develop from the dormant buds on the rhizome.
The thick of winter is here and the no-longer-dormant Knicks are finally chasing something better than a ping-pong ball. Knicks Suddenly Doing the Kicking
Question: While Friday Night Lights continues to be one of my favorite shows, despite the recent Jerry Springer moment at Julie's dorm, I feel kind of gypped about Landry. Ask Matt: Location, Location, Location; Plus FNL, Fringe, Grey's and More!
The subsoil is a store of inert fertility that should not remain dormant. Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement
All the way to his dorm room he pestered me about it, and I, quite easily, maintained my silence.
They produce numerous biological effects including promotion of leaf senescence and abscission, stomatal closure, inhibition of root growth, and germination of non-dormant seeds.
Tubercle bacilli can remain dormant for years before producing active disease.
The shelter consists of two spartan dormitories lined with metal beds and cots, a few stuffed toys and pictures on the walls. Times, Sunday Times
China has recently revived maritime territorial claims that had been left dormant, and confronted the navies of other nations to assert those claims. Times, Sunday Times
I think that Alison's portrait reactivates this dormant aspect of Trafalgar Square.
The movie's high point—its very high point—is Frances McDormand's sensational performance as Sam's mother, Jane, a pansexual record producer who can't suppress a nervous giggle when she introduces her strait-laced son to a gaggle of indolent musicians. 'Contraband': Almost Illegally Entertaining
Once you been accepted at the university they promise to accommodate you in a dormitory.
Qui postquam allatas litteras audivit, ex consuetudine ratus opera aut ingenio suo opus esse, in tabernaculum introiit, dormiente illo epistolam, super caput in pulvino temere positam, sumit ac perlegit, dein propere, cognitis insidiis, ad regem pergit. C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
The road also takes in a few rough dormitory towns and massive factory complexes.
So long as those auxin signals move out from the growing tips, few - if any - of the dormant buds on the plant will open up and begin to grow.
Running down each side of the valley are mountain peaks dotted with dormant volcanoes.
The bigleaf and oakleaf varieties bloom on last year's, nonblooming growth, while the pannicle and smooth varieties bloom on this year's growth, so pruning the dormant stems takes careful examination before cutting back. Undefined
After your roses become dormant in the fall, protect them from severe freezing weather by piling a mound of soil over the canes.
This material is also excellent for use on low-pitched roofs in areas such as porches, sunrooms and shed dormers, and as additional protection in valleys and other particularly vulnerable areas.
When I lived in a French dorm, I was randomly selected as serre-file for my floor. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Pour encourager les autres”
Dear Aunt Eleanor, It is very cold here there is frost on the dorm windows inside, last week I was two days in the san with a bad ear. THE GOLDEN LION
By revitalizing the oft-dormant offense, McNair once again legitimized the Ravens as Super Bowl contenders. NFL season rewind: Team MVPs
On the non-fuel side, these outlets would have dormitory accommodation, restaurants for motorists, dhabas for truckers, rest rooms, STD / Fax facilities.
He treats one of his grade-obsessed premedical students as a mere nuisance, and the consequence is that the young man jumps to his death from the roof of his dormitory building.
· Were seeds past their after-ripening (section 14.3) or dormancy period? 5. How plants live and grow
If I were the president of a university I should establish a compulsory course in "How to Use Your Eyes". The professor would try to show his pupils how they could add joy to their lives by really seeing what passes unnoticed before them. He would try to awake their dormant and sluggish faculties.
The next thing you know you'd be watching a film in a dorm room together. Times, Sunday Times
Sentiments will run deep awakening dormant feelings that were thought to be successfully repressed.
A square roofe without Dormans, with two Lucoms on each side," means, I think, without dormer windows, and with luthern windows. Sabbath in Puritan New England
The spectabalis may go dormant in the heat of summer, although some dicentra will hold their foliage. A whopping bed of bleeding hearts almost made me drive off the side of the road « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
The site went dormant until this week, when it relaunched as a tool offered exclusively to law enforcement officials and ‘intelligence agencies’.
Snow lying on a flat field is fairly dormant, but snow lying on a slope is inherently alive, thanks to the pull of gravity.
Puis elle l'enveloppa chaudement et, comme il n'y avait pas de berceau, elle le déposa dans *une mangeoire* pour qu'il puisse dormir... Mangeoire - French Word-A-Day
It might be something you've always wanted to do but lies dormant inside you, either forgotten or unexplored. BE YOUR BEST: How Anyone can become Fit, Healthy and Confident
For example, seed dormancy, leading to the production of soil seed banks, allows escape from unfavourable conditions in time rather than in space.
A huge Belgian hit called "Benidorm Basterds," where senior citizens pull pranks on "regular people," was sold all over the world in the States Kinetic Content produced a local version, hosted by Betty White, for NBC. Omri Marcus: Why TV Genres Never Really Die
Children slept in dormitories, they ate together in silence, and they lived their days to a clockwork routine which never varied.
This championship has seen a re-emergence of an attacking game long dormant, but there have been worrying signs too. Times, Sunday Times
He was drinking grape Tang and vodka, a demented dormitory drink when mixers were scarce.
Scheduling help sessions might mean that tutors or tutees had to take extra trips to campus or be willing to meet in homes or dormitories.
His early experience in Long Chamber, the collegers' dormitory, and his previous harsh experience at Ilminster influenced his later thinking on educational reform.
The effects of an earthquake can be felt hundreds of miles from the epicentre and are powerful enough to wake dormant volcanoes. Times, Sunday Times
But if Obama doesn't do something to address the debt problems homeowners and the financial system face, the housing market will lie dormant for years, the economy will crawl along anemically for decades and Obama himself may join the ranks of the unemployed in 2012. John R. Talbott: How Obama Can Fix the Housing Market and the Economy
I have heard rabbits, foxes, and dormice drumming.
The term latent typically refers to something that is dormant, not observable, or not yet realized. Business Wire Travel News
These vertical volumes and the several prismatic cuts into the building's outer envelope suggest a reading of the dormitory less as a single parallelepiped and more as an array of conjoined towers.
The buds are already dormant within the bulbs and the difference in size will affect the size of the flower.
Among buildings in full bloom are the new base exchange, fitness center, commissary, a school consolidating kindergarten through high school in one main area, collocated club and four modern dormitories.
Incidentally, some years Great Basin bristlecone pines awaken in late June, discern (exactly how remains a mystery) that pending summer conditions will be inhospitable; drop back into dormancy drawing upon meager sugar reserves, enabling them to survive for another sleepy 12 months: Giving an entirely new meaning to Fastina lente or make haste slowly. Dr. Reese Halter: Saving the Ancient Pines by Reducing our Global Footprints
I have considered the dormice served with honey and poppy-seed and the grape-fed beccafico dressed with _garum piperatum_, which, according to Petronius, were served at Trimalchio's banquet. The Orchard of Tears
Whit, the only place people can associate is in their dorm room? The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause
Shortly after the three of us set upon his dorm room to dismantle it, a small but sharp twinge of pain registered just under my left kneecap.
We entered a dimly lit dormitory like a tunnel under the eaves of the house. Seminary Boy
It might be something you've always wanted to do but lies dormant inside you, either forgotten or unexplored. BE YOUR BEST: How Anyone can become Fit, Healthy and Confident
For today much, perhaps most, of a student's search for information has moved out of the stacks and into dorm rooms and studies, via the Internet.
So for the second time that day, she left class early and walked down the halls to her dorm.
Seeds of some species do not germinate when placed under conditions normally regarded as favourable to germination and are said to be dormant.
The third step in forcing dormancy is to wait three or four days after spraying and completely defoliate the plant by pulling off the leaves.
Children sleep in dormitories when they live at school.
I was so close to my dorm I could practically taste it when someone stepped out in front of me.
They batch hatch every 9 years, breed, and deposit eggs in dormancy, fertilized. Ewwww, cont'd (Jack Bog's Blog)
The long-dormant volcano has recently shown signs of erupting.
At Wolf Ridge, you live in dorms and share a bathroom with a number of other people.
You could simply redefine athleticism as "that which enables things to move around", but then you have a dormitive principle. Bunny and a Book
The internet has made available all types of sick and demented images that feed certain desires that would otherwise lay dormant in a person who is prone to becoming a sex offender. Discourse.net: Minimal Human Decency Abridged
At Weinstein Dorm I took the elevator to the ninth floor.
“Though we talk of the progress that the race has made in learning and enlightenment,” he wrote, “it is alarming to notice … how germs which men deem dead really lurk dormant for ages, and then develop themselves with startling rapidity when they find the proper menstruum”: A Furnace Afloat
Many were housed overnight in makeshift dormitories in Malibu. Times, Sunday Times
Saying X is intelligent because it created the CSI is circular (dormitive principle): You explain how CSI is created by intelligence, and you know it was intelligence only because it created the CSI. Bunny and a Book
Oddly in Nero, I am left with the idea that if the college had not moved Mr Davenport to an all male dorm, summary judgement would have been an easy call on behalf of the college .... The Volokh Conspiracy » Where, According to Tort Law, Should Accused Criminals and Ex-Convicts Live?
Students can use beanbags as a lightweight seating in a dorm room and are so inexpensive that it doesn't matter if they spilt a mess on them, as they are relatively easy to clean.
The three basic body types are ectomorph, mesomorph and endormorph.
Camberley is another one of those familiar dormitory towns that punctuate the south-east of England.
It pledged to put cute little Colonial-style dormers on the store.
The study found that while some species, including hedgehogs, voles, shrews, dormice and hares, are generally declining in rural areas, their populations are rising in towns, cities and suburbs.
However, it is also a fundamental step in the transition of tumors from a dormant state to a malignant one.
Dormice like the coppiced hazel woodland here — hence its other name: the hazel dormouse. Times, Sunday Times
“I know you'll be tempted to get involved in . . . illicit activities now that you won't be under the watchful eye of your dweeby graduate student dorm monitor.” The First Apartment: A Rite of Passage
And this means that lazy gardeners have been given extra time to transplant deciduous trees and shrubs since they are still dormant. The Sun
More than 300 people attended, so the overflow attendees were housed in a dormitory that reeked of fresh paint.
At least there was an escape route, just in case I felt the dormant volcano erupting.
By the usual promises of land and pay a band of warriors was drawn for this purpose from Jutland in 449 with two ealdormen, Hengist and Horsa, at their head. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
Not in the dorm rooms, though, please. Times, Sunday Times
If I were the president of a university I should establish a compulsory course in "How to Use Your Eyes". The professor would try to show his pupils how they could add joy to their lives by really seeing what passes unnoticed before them. He would try to awake their dormant and sluggish faculties.
There's considerably less bitching about the federal government, environmental activists and co-ed dorms.
Before long, he's hosting pot and LSD-fueled debauches in his dorm room. Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Mr. Nice
The altar, intricately carved in limewood, painted and gilded, represents the Dormition of the Virgin, and took its creator 12 years to make.
You may let plants dry a little in their dormancy during mid-winter - but do not allow your fuchsias to grow in conditions that become dry or are exposed to strong winds.
Recent research has indicated that the disease can lie dormant for up to 40 years before symptoms show.
The whole of the ceremonies of initiation are therefore forbidden -- "omnes receptiones noviter venientium, quos voluntaria opinione Bejanos nuncupare solent, cum suis consequentiis, necnon bajulationes, fibrationes ... tam in capitulo, in dormitorio, in parvis scholis, in jardinis, quam ubiubi, et tam de die quam de nocte. Life in the Medieval University

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