How to Use almshouse in a Sentence

almshouse

noun

• The top right image in the post depicts the almshouse outside the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.
  — Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2022
• When the Nazis invaded, the Hals and the rest of the collection were moved out of the building as the Germans made the almshouse their headquarters.
  — New York Times, 18 Jan. 2021
• The skulls of the Black Philadelphians were probably taken from unmarked graves at the almshouse.
  — Remy Tumin, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2022
• No one was charged with Randolph’s murder and his body was buried in an unmarked grave in the pauper’s cemetery of the local almshouse.
  — Clint Smith, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2022
• Years later, the Montgomery County Detention Center would be built on part of the almshouse site.
  — Clint Smith, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2022
• Among the biggest beggars at the federal almshouse is McConnell’s home state, Kentucky, which ranked eighth.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020
• My daughter’s school used to take an annual field trip to an almshouse built on the road 300 years ago and converted into a museum.
  — Ellen Himelfarb, National Geographic, 15 Nov. 2020
• Despite its impressive holdings, the almshouse only opened to the public as a museum a little over 10 years ago.
  — New York Times, 18 Jan. 2021
• Part nursing home, part hospital and part old-fashioned almshouse, Laguna Honda serves those with nowhere else to turn.
  — Jason Fagone, SFChronicle.com, 6 Apr. 2020
• Laguna Honda, which opened 156 years ago, is believed to be the country’s last big almshouse, a nonprofit nursing home run by the county to provide long-term medical care for the very poor, the very sick and the very disabled.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Aug. 2022
• Gerhard returned to Philadelphia in 1833 to serve as resident physician at the sick wards of the city’s almshouse, then known as the Philadelphia Hospital.
  — Timothy Kent Holliday, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2020
• The museum in Leerdam is part of an almshouse for unmarried women that also showcases the collection of its 18th-century founder.
  — New York Times, 22 Sep. 2021
• Serving this population was a major, unanticipated use of the almshouse.
  — Austin Hewitt, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 9 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024