lunatic asylum
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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People think oh, lunatic asylum, bad place, but people seek asylum.
From BBC • Feb. 26, 2023
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
The way things are going, life in a lunatic asylum might seem like a tempting upgrade if it weren’t for the prospect of open-ended stay.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2018
Buckland ended up by losing his mind and finished his days a gibbering wreck in a lunatic asylum in Clapham, not far from where Mantell had suffered his crippling accident.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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