old folks' home
Example Sentences
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Sometimes I'd get a charming surprise, like when the giant Beverly Hills cupcake order went not to a socialite but to an old folks' home.
From Salon • Sep. 10, 2022
Josh clearly worships his take-no-crap grandma, and the two bond over the macabre: He texts her “Psycho” references, she quizzes him on horror trivia in the parlor of the old folks’ home.
From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2021
An unemployed family man gets a gig helping his granddad run an old folks’ home in the new comedy “Tyler Perry’s Assisted Living.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2020
Would intone loudly that the coronation chicken served at the opening of an old folks’ home “looks like sick”?
From Seattle Times • Aug. 16, 2018
Nobody seems to think it odd that an old man is standing in his slippers on the sidewalk right outside an old folks’ home.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
