mental home
Britishnoun
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
Divorced now, he comes from a mental home to break in upon her romance with an uncomplicated architect.
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It was a short novel by a Brooklyn psychiatrist, actually little more than two case histories with dialogue, about a curative love that develops between two teen-age children in a suburban mental home.
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Last season, in Home, Storey made old age in a mental home his metaphor for the decline and fragmentation of empire.
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What guests were trying to elbow their way into her mental home?
From The Opened Shutters by Clara Louise Burnham
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