mental institution
Example Sentences
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He escaped from a mental institution, settled in Southern California, and began falsely claiming that he was a rabbi, a doctor and Albert Einstein’s nephew.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
She was incarcerated for six years, most of which she spent in prison and some of which she spent in a mental institution and in exile in a Siberian penal colony.
From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2024
Dot does that many times over throughout the season, even slipping free of the mental institution where Lorraine tries to have her committed against her will.
From Salon • Jan. 17, 2024
Alli Birrenkott is one of dozens of people who discovered family members in the recently released death records for Northern State Hospital, Washington’s abandoned mental institution.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 31, 2023
He is going home to the Netherlands, to a mental institution in Utrecht.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
