How to Use almshouse in a Sentence

almshouse

noun
  • There are no more of them in the almshouses than of white people.
    — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • The skulls of the Black Philadelphians were probably taken from unmarked graves at the almshouse.
    — Remy Tumin, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The top right image in the post depicts the almshouse outside the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.
    — Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Among the biggest beggars at the federal almshouse is McConnell’s home state, Kentucky, which ranked eighth.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Years later, the Montgomery County Detention Center would be built on part of the almshouse site.
    — Clint Smith, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Serving this population was a major, unanticipated use of the almshouse.
    — Austin Hewitt, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 9 Apr. 2021
  • 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 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
  • These communities often lived in almshouses — charitable housing — and on the streets, and people didn’t want to financially support them, Crumley said.
    — Maddie Browning, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The image on the top left shows a modern-day electrical transformer, and the photo on the top right shows the almshouse outside the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey.
    — Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2022
  • 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 Royal Institute of Architects (RIBA) praised its radical reimagining of the traditional almshouse, turning the senior housing project into something special.
    — New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2025

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