Sample sentences for INFIRMARY

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a small facility where patients receive treatment — such as a room or two at a school as contrasted to a busy hospital or medical clinic

infirmary = small facility where patients receive treatment

infirmary = place where patients receive treatment

Being far too ill to remain in the common prison, he was removed, after the first day or so, into the infirmary.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations
I couldn't escape a confusing sense of having lived through all of this before—Phineas in the Infirmary, and myself responsible.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

infirmary = a small facility where patients receive treatment

Thought you'd be more comfortable in a guest room than in the infirmary.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones

infirmary = a small facility where patients receive treatment

There are farms. There is a school. An infirmary. A temple.
Alice Walker -- The Color Purple

infirmary = a small facility where patients receive treatment

Old Mr. Antolini felt his pulse and all, and then he took off his coat and put it over James Castle and carried him all the way over to the infirmary.
J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye

infirmary = a small facility where patients receive treatment

They took about twenty chaps to the infirmary,
Ernest Hemingway -- The Sun Also Rises

infirmary = a small facility where patients receive treatment

Without a word he spun and hurried back toward the infirmary.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones

infirmary = a small facility where patients receive treatment

How he longed to be in bed in the infirmary, fast asleep!
Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

infirmary = a small facility where patients receive treatment

Anyway, we got him inside and took him to the infirmary, and the doctor tended to him.
Kenneth Oppel -- Airborn

infirmary = a small facility where patients receive treatment

I left the Infirmary and went to my 10:10 class, which was on American history.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

infirmary = place where patients receive treatment

Please bring some of Finny's clothes and his toilet things to the Infirmary.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

infirmary = place where patients receive treatment

The air was laden with hospital smells, not unlike those of the gym except that the Infirmary lacked that sense of spent human vitality.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

infirmary = place where patients receive treatment

I reached the Infirmary with Finny's suitcase and went inside.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

infirmary = place where patients receive treatment

I didn't know what I was going to say at the Infirmary.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

infirmary = place where patients receive treatment

In this way I tried to calm myself as I walked with Finny's suitcase toward the Infirmary.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

infirmary = place where patients receive treatment

There was a street light behind me somewhere through the trees and the windows of the Infirmary dimly reflected it.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

infirmary = place where patients receive treatment

Hodge stood by the infirmary door, his neat suit stained with patches of rust.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones

infirmary = a small facility where patients receive treatment

Church met her at the top of the stairs, yowling like a foghorn, and led her to the infirmary.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones

infirmary = a small facility where patients receive treatment

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