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• The asylum inmate muttered some doggerel about chains and pains to himself, over and over.From the entry mutter
• We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.From the entry assignment
• After thirty years in the asylum, deinstitutionalization would present many problems.From the entry deinstitutionalization
• This is incredibly apparent in “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” where the aforementioned asylum lyric appears.2024 April 29, Kelly Brennen, “Taylor Swift delivers lackluster lyrics, uninspired production”, in The Torch, Valparaiso, Ind.: Valparaiso…. From the entry I'm 14 and this is deep
• Too many people are unaware of the fact that the lunatics have taken over the asylum.”2012, Mary Higgins Clark, We'll Meet Again, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 51. From the entry the lunatics have taken over the asylum
• In this respect, Schreber mentions two brief unmannings in the asylum.2004, Michael Vannoy Adams, The Fantasy Principle: Psychoanalysis of the Imagination, page 106. From the entry unmanning
• Security in Gondar depended largely on the sanctity of the echage’s quarter as a place of asylum.1972, Donald Crummey, Priests and Politicians. From the entry echage
• The law would allow Finnish border guards to reject migrant asylum applications at crossing points under certain circumstances.2024 July 12, “Finland approves controversial law to turn away migrants at Russian border”, in Euronews, archived from the original on 03…. From the entry Finnish
• “The seizures got me out of military service, though they landed me, instead, in an asylum—diagnosably, syndromically, Puerto Rican.”2023, Justin Torres, Blackouts, Granta Books (2024), page 129. From the entry diagnosably
• From courts to the cost of living, transport to healthcare, environment to the asylum system – everywhere appears to be affected.2022 December 30, Pamela Duncan, Carmen Aguilar García, Michael Goodier, “Inflation, waiting lists, strikes, rail chaos, climate…. From the entry polycrisis
• The term “insane asylum” fell into disfavour long ago, but asylum is what some mentally ill people need.2013 September 18, “Editorial: Seriously ill still need asylum”, in Vancouver Sun. From the entry disfavour
• Families secreted mad uncles and strange cousins in asylums.1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, Totem Books, Icon Books, →ISBN, page 43. From the entry secrete
• I cannot speak with any confidence of the pre-war dietary of asylum patients, which no doubt differs widely in different asylums.1921, Montagu Lomax, The Experiences of an Asylum Doctor, London: Allen & Unwin, page 119. From the entry dietary
• Is this a lunatic asylum, or only a boozorium?1910, Unattributed, chapter 1, in New Nick Carter Weekly #714, page 13. From the entry boozorium
• Maybe you’d better send me back to the asylum.1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 12, in Anne of Green Gables, Toronto: Ryerson Press, page 108. From the entry trial
• The insane asylums of California contain many shepherds.1904, Charles Dudley Warner, “The Locoed Novelist”, in The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner. From the entry loco
• Like others, Byron, who didn’t want his last name used in the story out of concerns for his safety, is seeking asylum in America.2024 January 25, Evan Casey, “Whitewater adjusts to changing population amid increase of immigrants”, in Wisconsin Public Radio, archived…. From the entry whitewater
• Brexit has also made it harder for the UK to deport migrants back to the EU as the country has left the bloc's asylum scheme.2021 February 12, “Frontex plane arrives in northern France to help fight people smuggling Access to the comments”, in Euronews with AFP. From the entry deport
• Brexit has also made it harder for the UK to deport migrants back to the EU as the country has left the bloc’s asylum scheme.2021 December 2, “Frontex plane arrives in northern France to help fight people smuggling”, in Euronews, sourced from AFP. From the entry Brexit
• A German family that claims it will be persecuted for homeschooling if sent back, lost its asylum request Monday at the U.S.2014 March 3, Bill Mears, “Homeschooling family loses asylum appeal”, in CNN. From the entry homeschooling
• The Board of Immigration Appeals concluded homeschoolers are too ‘amorphous” to constitute a social group eligible for protection under the asylum law.2014 March 3, Bill Mears, “Homeschooling family loses asylum appeal”, in CNN. From the entry homeschooler
• But the persistence of the camps appearing along the Normandy coast is a sympton of the failure of a wider European asylum policy.2009 September 22, Alan Travis, “There will be no 'invasion' from 'jungle camps'”, in Guardian. From the entry sympton
• "The defect of many of the murals," he says, speaking of those in the orphan asylum, "is the facial atrabiliousness of some of the subjects.1948, Willard Price, Roving South, Rio Grande to Patagonia, New York, N.Y.: J. Day Co., →OCLC, page 13. From the entry atrabiliousness
• Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC. From the entry fret
• It is there in Trump’s decision to grant asylum to white South Africans because of a fictitious “white genocide” said to be taking place in their country.2026 January 21, David Smith, “Trump paints himself as great white hope in racism-drenched Davos speech”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived…. From the entry fictitious
• In Manchester and in Aldershot in Hampshire, asylum seeker accommodation was targeted by demonstrators carrying placards that read “deport them, don’t support them” and “no apartments for illegals”.2024 August 1, Josh Halliday, Neha Gohil, “Police in England urged to protect mosques as far right plans more rallies”, in The Guardian…. From the entry Aldershot
• This week members return to the chamber to quiz the government on the Zimbabwe election, teacher shortages, backlog of asylum applications and improving the system for dementia diagnosis.2023 August 31, “What's on in the Lords 4-7 September”, in UK Parliament. From the entry quiz
• Destitution forces many asylum seekers to end up working for extremely low wages in catering, cleaning and construction, for example, without any protection against unscrupulous employers.2009 August 4, Rahila Gupta, The Guardian. From the entry destitution
• “The prisonlike conditions, this form of detention, is not necessary,” said Michelle Brané, who heads the detention and asylum program at the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children.2007 February 22, Rachel L. Swarns, “2 Groups Compare Immigrant Detention Centers to Prisons”, in New York Times. From the entry prisonlike
• His seminal readings of eighteenth-century all-male environments such as prisons and boys' schools have tended to "immasculate" the asylum, the clinic, and the confessional as well.2007 May 14, J. Foertsch, Conflict and Counterpoint in Lesbian, Gay, and Feminist Studies, Springer, →ISBN, page 90. From the entry immasculate
• As the Japanese closed in on Tunghwa, Gilbert gave asylum to important figures of the resistance and the former government and stored trunks containing their personal belongings.1988, Jean-Paul Wiest, Maryknoll in China: A History, 1918-1955, M. E. Sharpe, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 352. From the entry Tunghwa
• Without words and almost with the seriousness of asylum nurses they at once set upon an unsavoury-looking matron who began to cry out Mediterranean vocables of distress.1974, Anthony Burgess, The Clockwork Testament. From the entry vocable
• It stands not far under these circumstances from the lunatic asylum and leaves a memory of nerve-wreck, or even of cowardice, which does not minister to self-respect.1908, The Lancet, page 410. From the entry nerve-wreck
• Small boat crossings falling, asylum hotels closing, protecting young people from social media, and half a million children being lifted out of poverty because of the choices that I made.2026 June 22, Keir Starmer, resignation speech. From the entry asylum hotel
• I felt an unusual detachment, an almost agnostic attitude toward the contest of giants that would turn New Orleans's Superdome into a vast asylum for madmen, madwomen and even madchildren.2012, H. Brandt Ayers, The 2013 BCS National Championship, →ISBN. From the entry madchild

Meaning of asylum

1. noun A place of safety or refuge.
2. noun The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place (as, for example, for political refugees).
3. noun A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.

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Questions about asylum in a sentence

How do you use asylum in a sentence?

Asylum is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The asylum inmate muttered some doggerel about chains and pains to himself, over and over.”

What is a short sentence with asylum?

“The insane asylums of California contain many shepherds.”

What does asylum mean?

Asylum means a place of safety or refuge.