old people's home

Example Sentences

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"Before I die in that old people's home, I would rather go to a meadow and enter eternity that way," said Sister Bernadette.

From BBC • Sep. 12, 2025

One old people's home in Hagen had to be evacuated, while across the region firemen were busy pumping out hundreds of cellars.

From Reuters • Jul. 14, 2021

In a hostile land, some of her father’s friendships endured; and one of these meant he secured residential care for his disabled brother and sister in an old people’s home.

From The Guardian • Nov. 24, 2018

I must get around six a day sometimes," he said. "My wife is in an old people's home.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2017

The old people’s home is at Marengo, about eighty kilometers from Algiers, I’ll take the two o’clock bus and get there in the afternoon.

From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus