sanatorium

Example Sentences

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The ship eventually docked in Genoa and he was taken to a sanatorium while the rest of the team continued on to Romania.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

Physician conducting a medical examination of a dairy worker at the state tuberculosis sanatorium in Ah-Gwah-Ching, Minnesota, 1932.

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2025

Rowlands spent two years in a sanatorium as a child recovering from tuberculosis, a disease which claimed his sister Megan's life, and in the early 1990s he overcame bowel cancer.

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2023

Later, a group of 31 were sent to “a sanatorium for children in Moscow.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2023

I look like I’ve just emerged from a sanatorium and am about to lose a long battle with consumption.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein