How to Use infirmary in a Sentence

infirmary

noun
  • One of the students became ill and was sent to the infirmary.
  • But then he got gored in the leg and was rushed to the infirmary.
    — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 12 July 2023
  • And at the end took me to what was quote-unquote an infirmary.
    — CBS News, 16 Feb. 2020
  • Yet stricter infirmaries did not allow them, for fear of self-harm.
    — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Large swaths of his skin had peeled from his body by the time he was carried to the infirmary.
    — Julie K. Brown, miamiherald, 12 June 2017
  • Roger snatches the boy up and runs through the chaos toward the infirmary.
    — Lincee Ray, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Despite that, he was not taken to the jail’s infirmary.
    — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The inmate will be held in an isolated cell in the infirmary for two weeks.
    — Emilie Eaton, ExpressNews.com, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Since lockdown, my apartment had served as my home, a workplace and an infirmary.
    — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2021
  • And finally, there’s an aviary for large birds that includes a kitchen and infirmary.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Reagan was taken to the prison infirmary, where he was pronounced dead.
    — Ethan Wolin, Sacbee.com, 11 June 2025
  • On a recent day, one huge steer languished in the ranch’s infirmary with an herb pack applied to an aching knee.
    — Oliver Griffin, WSJ, 10 July 2018
  • As part of the deal, the developer will oversee the work on the chapel and the infirmary.
    — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Some, due to age or infirmary, may not have access to computers that need to be used to complete the web forms.
    — Russel Honoré, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
  • But the truly stunning spaces are the infirmary and the dining room.
    — Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Hicks was placed in the infirmary for observation.
    — Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Brooks was on an infirmary bed when the attack occurred, and at one point in the video his face was visibly bloodied.
    — Doha Madani, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Percy wakes up in the infirmary with Thalia still unconscious.
    — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Nor are they provided with their own sets of keys to access infirmaries, clinics, housing units and psych wards.
    — Mary Buser, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Blessing, who is being held in a jail infirmary, refused to be brought to court Thursday.
    — Fox News, 19 July 2018
  • She was subsequently assigned to work as a doctor in the camp’s infirmary.
    — Menachem Z. Rosensaft, TIME, 27 Jan. 2025
  • There is also a two-page memo by a sergeant who was in the infirmary when Brooks was attacked that echoes their version of events.
    — Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Feeling unwell one day, Bunch went to the infirmary, which found her blood pressure soaring.
    — Amy Goldstein, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The nurse in the infirmary took my temperature, which was high, and then gave me Theraflu and sent me back to work.
    — Brittney Griner, TIME, 3 May 2024
  • For ongoing medical care and minor issues, a short trip to the on-site infirmary would do.
    — Jeremy Samuel Faust, Slate Magazine, 20 Apr. 2017
  • These children couldn't attend school and didn't have access to the recreation yard, the library, the infirmary and the chapel.
    — Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Two of those inmates are in the hospital; the others are isolated in the jail infirmary.
    — Peggy O’Hare, ExpressNews.com, 20 Apr. 2020
  • But only a few people outside of the prisons know what’s going on inside the infirmaries.
    — Andy Marso, kansascity, 21 Jan. 2018
  • Soon everyone is racing around the infirmary.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The groups visited the prison infirmaries and some lawmakers spoke with an inmate in hospice.
    — oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023

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