Sample Sentences for
asylum
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(editor-reviewed)

asylum as in:  she sought asylum in...

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She sought political asylum in the US due to persecution at home.
asylum = shelter from danger or hardship
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    That was the first year Europe had over a million migrants apply for asylum.
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    They were granted the right to asylum in Holland, but once Hitler is gone, they should go back to Germany.  (source)
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    They were granted asylum in the U.S. in 1982, the year their daughter, Pari, was born.  (source)
    asylum = the right to remain in a country after fleeing political persecution in another country
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    However, Ramius could surface off the Virginia Capes in a day or two and request political asylum.  (source)
    asylum = the right to remain in a country after fleeing political persecution in another country
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    In between that calamity and this, they had visited George III in London, published a newspaper, made baskets, led Oglethorpe through forests, helped Andrew Jackson fight Creek, cooked maize, drawn up a constitution, petitioned the King of Spain, been experimented on by Dartmouth, established asylums, wrote their language, resisted settlers, shot bear and translated scripture.†  (source)
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    He also wanted to make sure they didn't ask for political asylum in Britain, which would be embarrassing for his government.  (source)
    asylum = refuge or shelter
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    He expected that the old man might be more than he could handle and was perhaps an escapee from an asylum, or, worse, someone who had contrived to avoid asylums altogether.†  (source)
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    Apparently, he is seeking asylum….  (source)
    asylum = shelter from danger or hardship
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    That too would be most welcome, as one of their long-standing projects, as a group, is the reform of public asylums.†  (source)
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    They found a miserable asylum in the cottage in Germany, where I discovered them.  (source)
    asylum = refuge or shelter in another country
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    "Yes, of course," said Marilla, as if getting boys from orphan asylums in Nova Scotia were part of the usual spring work on any well-regulated Avonlea farm instead of being an unheard of innovation.†  (source)
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    Sometimes we may even need to provide asylum for those whose lives are in danger.  (source)
    asylum = shelter from danger or hardship
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    But Mr. Dashwood rejected any but thrilling tales, and as thrills could not be produced except by harrowing up the souls of the readers, history and romance, land and sea, science and art, police records and lunatic asylums, had to be ransacked for the purpose.†  (source)
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asylum as in:  committed to the asylum

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She was found not guilty on the grounds of insanity, and she was then committed to an asylum.
asylum = hospital for the mentally ill
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    She was committed to an asylum after paranoia led her to injure someone.
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    The inmates are running the asylum.
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    Miss Stephanie said old Mr. Radley said no Radley was going to any asylum, when it was suggested that a season in Tuscaloosa might be helpful to Boo.  (source)
    asylum = a hospital for the mentally ill
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    "Yep, that poor fella just sits in the state asylum saying, 'Purple waves, purple waves' over and over again, and his scared eyes keep staring at his hands."  (source)
    asylum = hospital for the mentally ill
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    Have the criminals and lunatics been let out of the prisons and asylums and sent here to act as bloodhounds?  (source)
    asylums = hospitals for the mentally ill
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    To these people just off the train, we all must have looked like escaped mental-asylum patients with our shaved heads and our wooden shoes and oversized blue-and-gray-striped uniforms.  (source)
    asylum = hospital for the mentally ill
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    When I first woke up, it was like I'd entered an insane asylum—these strange guys hovering over my bed, the world tipping around me, memories swirling in my brain.  (source)
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    They took him screaming off to the asylum.  (source)
    asylum = a hospital for the mentally ill
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    It is supposed to bore us into submission or prepare us for an insane asylum.  (source)
    asylum = hospital for the mentally ill
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    If your husband hadn't taken such good care of me, I'm sure I'd be in an asylum by now It was a dreadful time.  (source)
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    He is only nine-and twenty, and he has an immense lunatic asylum all under his own care.  (source)
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    I visit my aunt at the asylum two or three times a week.  (source)
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    If it were up to her, they would be humanely dispatched to that great canine insane asylum in the sky.  (source)
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