sanitarium
Example Sentences
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She even adopted a Ukrainian teenager, Filip Holovnya, from among the children taken to the sanitarium.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2023
Their mother is stuck in a nearby sanitarium, suffering from an undisclosed illness.
From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2023
Among them was a TB sanitarium that became the seed for today’s City of Hope, the renowned cancer treatment and research center.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2022
A decrepit drive-in movie theater screens a 1947 noir spoof, “My Favorite Brunette,” for seemingly no other reason, possibly, than that Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour get locked up in a sanitarium.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2022
Did he do his work right there in the sanitarium, or did they rent him a little office where he could get away from all the noise?
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.