(n.) A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school.
(n.) A burial place.
Example Sentences:
(1) Four University of the Free State students filmed themselves drinking in a bar and then one of them urinating into a stew before feeding it to five black staff members, four of them women, at their dormitory on the Bloemfontein campus accompanied by shouts of "take it, take it".
(2) Police investigating the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University massacre, which left 33 dead, mainly students, blamed Cho, a fourth-year English student who lived on the campus, for earlier incidents ranging from stalking women to setting fire to a dormitory.
(3) Forty-one (48%) of 86 students and 38 (28%) of 137 staff members in the two dormitories with the lowest functioning students were ill. Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli 0124:H30 was isolated from 20 persons including six staff members, 13 students, and the ill mother of one of the students.
(4) How else do you think I survived the dormitory at boarding school, or those working men's clubs?
(5) Thousands of Muslims attended the funeral for victims of the fire which broke out in an Islamic school dormitory.
(6) Dust and mites were significantly less in dormitories with linoleum than those with carpets (P less than .05 and .01, respectively).
(7) After visiting families all over his state, he built two female dormitories so that at least 100 women can stay at the school and be free from the responsibilities they have at home.
(8) Young people from outside Beijing often rent shared rooms, or even dormitory housing (as cheap as £30 or £40 a month), some of them in illegal underground basements .
(9) It covers more than a square mile and contains fast food outlets, stores and banks as well as the huge production buildings and dormitories.
(10) These 5 dishes were situated and remained in place for 60 minutes; the 4 interior ones were placed in different locations and always included the dormitory and living room.
(11) Measures of interpersonal behaviors exhibited by depressed college students toward their dormitory roommates were cluster analyzed, and this procedure produced 2 relatively distinct subgroups: a dependent, friendly, overgenerous type and an autocratic, competitive, aggressive, mistrustful type.
(12) Residents said the rebels, who rose up in April to demand independence from Kiev in the mainly Russian-speaking east, had dug trenches in downtown Donetsk outside the main university, where they have been living in student dormitories.
(13) Little more than three years after its birth in a Harvard University dormitory, the social networking website Facebook has become one of the most expensive internet start-ups in history, with a valuation of $15bn (£7.3bn) under a financing deal with the software group Microsoft .
(14) Within the Region substantial differences occur in death rates from heart disease among the five urban local government areas, the highest being in the coal-mining district of Cessnock and the lowest in the resort and dormitory area of Port Stephens.
(15) Although there are "hygiene rooms" in the dormitories, there is also "general hygiene room" with a corrective and punitive purpose.
(16) We didn’t expect the donations we got from people here, I was really overwhelmed,” she said, in a house that doubled as a temporary dormitory for mothers with young children before Slovenian authorities arranged for trains to continue straight over the border.
(17) Once they get off production line they live in cramped dormitories, often with strangers.
(18) He said the senator told him: “Be a good boy and do as you are told otherwise you will never go home.” A woman described an incident in which three men in their 30s, “scruffy looking with Jersey accents”, came into the dormitory one night and raped a girl in turn, egging each other on.
(19) Heading to their crowded dormitory after a night shift, several workers said pressure and the frequent scolding by management might be factors.
(20) Eric Goodby, 54, who runs an engraving and jewellery design firm with his father, Ken, 81, claimed Birmingham would be turned into a glorified dormitory town for London commuters.
Suburban
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to suburbs; inhabiting, or being in, the suburbs of a city.
(n.) One who dwells in the suburbs.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prevalence of Bifidobacterium is lower in a newly constructed suburban hospital.
(2) To examine the relationship between stress and upper respiratory tract infection, 235 adults aged 14-57 years, from 94 families affiliated with three suburban family physicians in Adelaide, South Australia, participated in a six-month prospective study.
(3) It somewhat condescendingly divides the population into 15 groups – among them, Terraced Melting Pot (“Lower-income workers, mostly young, living in tightly packed inner-urban terraces”), and Suburban Mind-sets (“Maturing families on mid-range incomes living a moderate lifestyle in suburban semis”).
(4) "We've put ourselves in this suburban existence, we've tried to change from within and, in the process, we've sort of lost what made us gay to begin with.
(5) It is a problem mostly along roads in urban or suburban areas.
(6) Grayling asks a Labour householder on one suburban doorstep. "
(7) There they are, drinking again.’” Harper is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey That scorn appears to have interrupted the clever student’s journey to the top of the class.
(8) Two hundred and four subjects, 22-35 years old, were selected from a suburban part of Khartoum.
(9) We studied 85 suburban paramedics for Hepatitis B serologic markers.
(10) It’s a cheap shot, but for Latham, politics has always been about his western Sydney roots and his fury with leftists “enjoying the luxury of high incomes and cosmopolitan interests” while dismissing suburban Australians as sexist, racist and homophobic.
(11) There are no frame-gobbling images, no torrents of blood flowing down the streets of suburban Australia.
(12) Photograph: Gabrielle Lurie for the Guardian O n the evening of 21 March 2014, Evan Snow, a thirtysomething “user experience design professional”, according to his LinkedIn profile, who had moved to the neighbourhood about six months earlier (and who has since departed for a more suburban environment), took his young Siberian husky for a walk on Bernal Hill.
(13) Around 50 suburban Chicago police departments and sheriff’s offices assisted, racking up more than $300,000 in overtime and other costs, according to an analysis that the Daily Herald newspaper published in early October.
(14) Let me tell you that waiting at a suburban station in Sydney for 45 minutes for the next train is far more aggravating than moving swiftly through a tunnel towards your destination, even if it is crowded for 20 minutes until you get past Bank.
(15) 95% were Caucasian, which approximates the racial balance of this suburban, midwestern population.
(16) And that’s the thing about substance abuse – it doesn’t discriminate.” Authorities report 74 heroin overdoses in three days in Chicago Read more “It touches everybody, from celebrities to college students to soccer moms to inner-city kids – white, black, Hispanic, young, old, rich, poor, urban, suburban, men and women.” Among the Obama administration’s proposals were to improve training among prescribers for opiate painkillers and to expand access to medication-assisted treatment.
(17) Currently, the US contains around 1,500 of the expansive “malls” of suburban consumer lore.
(18) Rising suburban poverty The report found that the number of jobs in suburbs has stagnated over the past decade, more people are claiming jobseeker’s allowance and pension credit, and that poverty has subsequently become more concentrated in many suburban areas.
(19) In order to obtain much more generalized characteristics of the primary care, clinics located in the city, suburban district and remote places in the mountains were studied.
(20) And the marvellously named Victor Gauntlett, vintage-car driver and pilot, looks gloriously suburban haut-bourgeois, with his study full of The Miracle of Speed symbols in pictures and models, while the room's decoration and furnishings are all Home Counties 1919 in sympathies.