insane asylum

noun

now usually offensive

: a hospital for people with mental illness : a mental hospital

Examples of insane asylum in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

For more than 10 years the Stamptown troupe led by Tucker, the alter ego of comedian Zach Zucker, has created an insane asylum on stage — from Elysian Theater in Echo Park to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland. — Deputy Entertainment, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026

One of them was the heartrending sequence in which Spiros Antonapoulos, a deaf character, is sent away to a state insane asylum, leaving his only friend, John Singer, behind. — Billy J. Stratton, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2026

In the fall of 1989, a select group of Soviet scientists was summoned to Obolensk, a secluded municipality on Moscow’s periphery, and gathered at what appeared to be an insane asylum to discuss a pioneering technique for mass murder. — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026

Not to mention, both songs’ music videos take place in an insane asylum. — Quentin Thane Singer, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026

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