poorhouse in a sentence
Examples
- Neighbouring Dunstable had a poorhouse from as early as 1592 located on the High Street.
- McEleny died on 1 August 1908 aged 35 at Smithston Poorhouse and Asylum, Greenock.
- He spent his last years in the poorhouse of the Reformed Church in Store Kongensgade.
- Banished the specter of the poorhouse.
- Ostracized by his family, he became an alcoholic and eventually died in a London poorhouse.
- The poorhouse graveyard, it turns out, is now the county fairground and swimming pool.
- Don't expect Suharto's children and cronies to end up in the poorhouse.
- In his tenure, Case organized the city workhouse, poorhouse, and house of refuge.
- Exhausted and frozen, he is found by the city guards and taken to the poorhouse.
- Originally a poorhouse hospital it became Dundee's second main hospital after Dundee Royal Infirmary.