lunatic asylum
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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In China, before the explosions, a message now says the police foiled the plot, arrested the criminals and sent Durden to a "lunatic asylum".
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2022
Like so many historic geniuses, he went uncelebrated in his own time, dying in disgrace as the inmate of a lunatic asylum.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2021
He is also, as the first sentence of “The Tin Drum” tells us, an inmate in a lunatic asylum.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 13, 2019
According to other letters in the same collection, Dickens also had what might have seemed an ideal connection: a friendship with Dr. Thomas Harrington Tuke, a psychiatrist who ran a private lunatic asylum near London.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2019
It’s like being in a lunatic asylum and having another patient all dressed up as a doctor come over to you and start taking your pulse or something....It’s just awful.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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