mental home
Example Sentences
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Mr. Ochs demanded that he and his brother, who suffers from a different form of the same condition, take a pledge never to incarcerate the other in a mental home.
From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2010
I went to private clinics, public hospitals and even ended up in a mental home.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week these names made this news: When soul-searching Author F. Scott Fitzgerald came to Hollywood in 1937, he left his wife Zelda behind in a North Carolina mental home.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Black Picture Show, Playwright Bill Gunn's hero is already hospitalized, or rather, confined to a Bronx, New York City, mental home.
From Time Magazine Archive
All educated Americans, first or last, go to Europe,—perhaps because it is their mental home, as the invalid habits of this country might suggest.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various
