insane asylum
Example Sentences
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His football is reminiscent of Ken Kesey’s insane asylum.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
“A collective insane asylum can continue to live in a fictional world.”
From Washington Times • Oct. 5, 2022
He wrote about Partition from the perspective of insane asylum residents and prostitutes and, in so doing, powerfully illustrated the unimaginable horrors and absurdities of Partition.
From Salon • Aug. 27, 2022
When I was a teenager, I read biographies of famous women, and they always seemed to have these mental breakdowns and they’d have to go to an insane asylum.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2022
It was built in 1889 as a charity hospital for the sick and poor, and it covered more than a dozen acres where a cemetery and insane asylum once sat in East Baltimore.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
