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Asylum
"Asylum" in a Sentence (14 examples)
The embassy denied political asylum to foreign refugees.
Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
My ancestors hoped to find political asylum.
Thousands of people apply for political asylum each year.
They became citizens after receiving political asylum.
This world is just an insane asylum.
Society is an insane asylum run by the inmates.
Last century they would have just thrown someone like Tom into a lunatic asylum.
In here, I look like a madman who just escaped from the lunatic asylum.
Tom was sent away to an insane asylum.
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All the busy concerns of daily existence were utterly abhorrent to me. I loathed the sound of others' voices—I hated to be mixed up with their petty routine of ordinary cares; here was an asylum offered to me—here I might lay down all the offices of humanity, and dwell beside that grave whose rest was now my only desire.
Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
It was she who in the last few years had spread abroad the notion that Charles Nagle, in the public interest, should be asylumed.
We have..sheltered its paupers, asylumed its orphans, clothed its nakedness.
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