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
According to the Washington Post, “Schrank died in a mental institution in 1943.”
From Salon • Oct. 9, 2024
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
In “Blackouts,” the narrator and Juan Gay first meet as inmates in a mental institution.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2023
I put my head on his shoulder and wondered whether a little time in some sort of mental institution would be worse than several months of slavery.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
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