How to Use poorhouse in a Sentence

poorhouse

noun

• This movie idea was his last chance to avoid the poorhouse.
  — Thomas Lipscomb, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2017
• People who were forced by debt to live in the poorhouse had to subsist on six and half pounds a year, paid from parish taxes.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
• And if that empathy leads to some solutions that don’t put us in the poorhouse, that’s a good thing.
  — Hannah K. Sparling, Cincinnati.com, 13 Dec. 2019
• On the other hand, a medical emergency could put you in the poorhouse.
  — Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com, 15 Feb. 2020
• Your bottom dollar puts you in the poorhouse, but a pretty penny buys you a mansion.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 28 July 2021
• Don’t evacuate the penthouse and condemn its residents to the poorhouse.
  — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 24 Jan. 2020
• Unable to support themselves, the two moved into a poorhouse in Wilkes County, North Carolina in 1943.
  — John McCarthy, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2017
• In 1866, the fledgling city of San Francisco decided to build a four-story poorhouse for unlucky gold rushers.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2021
• Troublingly, there are even many Power 5 programs (see the financial woes at Florida State) that have spent themselves into the poorhouse.
  — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 3 July 2019
• The forgotten man, who would return in Trump's inaugural address, was downtrodden, haunted, and hurting, a step away from the poorhouse.
  — Sam Tanenhaus, Esquire, 5 Apr. 2017
• However, that last name — Taxus — could be positively lethal, leading us all eventually to the poorhouse.
  — Alicia Armstrong, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2017
• Congress also asked FEMA to conduct an affordability study to see how the new rules could be administered without leaving people in the poorhouse — or with no house at all.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 29 Aug. 2017
• Laguna Honda, as the poorhouse became known, was a place for city residents who were old, impoverished, mentally ill, and disabled.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2021
• The only places for illegitimate infants were parish poorhouses, where children often died of neglect.
  — Time, 2 Feb. 2018
• In 1854, the county opened a poorhouse and farm and gradually added an insane asylum, infirmary and tuberculosis hospital to the property.
  — Nereida Moreno, latimes.com, 15 Apr. 2018
• Like all poorhouses and poor farms in the state, it was run by a superintendent, who was responsible for deciding which citizens petitioning for help would be admitted.
  — John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 22 June 2017
• The locations have become perpetual draws for tourists and locals alike, with McMenamins’ distinctive custom artwork transforming once-derelict hotels, poorhouses, schools, lodges and churches – and retail storefronts, as well.
  — Andre Meunier, oregonlive.com, 28 June 2019

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