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That was the first year Europe had over a million migrants apply for asylum.

He also wanted to make sure they didn't ask for political asylum in Britain, which would be embarrassing for his government.  (source) Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala, 2013

You could seek asylum on his behalf.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

Asylum from what?  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

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) Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987

Silas had never been here, but he felt a rising sense of refuge and asylum as he approached the building on foot.  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

The most famous of the lunatic asylums, debtor's prisons, and hospitals built on Roosevelt Island in the 1800s," Simon read dutifully.†  (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 2007

They were granted the right to asylum in Holland, but once Hitler is gone, they should go back to Germany.  (source) Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

That too would be most welcome, as one of their long-standing projects, as a group, is the reform of public asylums.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, 1996

Sometimes we may even need to provide asylum for those whose lives are in danger.  (source) Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky, 2009

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) Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War, 1991

However, Ramius could surface off the Virginia Capes in a day or two and request political asylum.  (source) Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October, 1984

There were stories he'd been in and out of insane asylums himself.†  (source) John Gardner, The Sunlight Dialogues, 1972

She was committed to an asylum after paranoia led her to injure someone.

The inmates are running the asylum.

"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) Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game, 1978

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) Mina Baites, The Silver Music Box, 2017

Have the criminals and lunatics been let out of the prisons and asylums and sent here to act as bloodhounds?  (source) Wladyslaw Szpilman, The Pianist, 1998

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) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

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) James Dashner, The Maze Runner, 2009

They took him screaming off to the asylum.  (source) Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953

It is supposed to bore us into submission or prepare us for an insane asylum.  (source) Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak, 1999

If it were up to her, they would be humanely dispatched to that great canine insane asylum in the sky.  (source) John Grogan, Marley & Me, 2005

As they parked in front of the three-story shingled building, Ruth was relieved to see that it did not look like an asylum.  (source) Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter, 2001

I visit my aunt at the asylum two or three times a week.  (source) Mal Peet, Tamar, 2005

He is only nine-and twenty, and he has an immense lunatic asylum all under his own care.  (source) Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897