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
For the past 22 years she has lived almost continuously in a mental home.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
With "great sobs tearing me to pieces," Beverley was soon carted off to a mental home, suffering from a nervous breakdown.
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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