insane asylum
Example Sentences
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His football is reminiscent of Ken Kesey’s insane asylum.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
“A collective insane asylum can continue to live in a fictional world.”
From Washington Times • Oct. 5, 2022
He wrote about Partition from the perspective of insane asylum residents and prostitutes and, in so doing, powerfully illustrated the unimaginable horrors and absurdities of Partition.
From Salon • Aug. 27, 2022
“Everywhere I looked, the place took on more of the aspects of an insane asylum instead of what I had pictured a lighthouse to be,” he wrote.
From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2022
“It’s an insane asylum, Turner. It’s a place where people live in long wards, tied to white iron beds. It’s a place where there are strong nurses to tell them exactly what to do.”
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
