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
The action, and there is virtually none, for this is a Chekhovian mood piece, takes place in a mental home.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last season, in Home, Storey made old age in a mental home his metaphor for the decline and fragmentation of empire.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the past 22 years she has lived almost continuously in a mental home.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is a mental home near Grasse where I believe they would take her; I can telephone and find out.
From Juggernaut by Campbell, Alice
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