Examples of poorhouse in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web His own father had grown up in Newburgh’s poorhouse. — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022 Her career lasted only a decade, but Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) painted more than 500 canvases, including moody landscapes, wry self-portraits and careful studies of children, old people and the residents of a local poorhouse. — Amy Crawford, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Nov. 2021 Your bottom dollar puts you in the poorhouse, but a pretty penny buys you a mansion. — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 28 July 2021 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 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 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 On the other hand, a medical emergency could put you in the poorhouse. — Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com, 15 Feb. 2020 Don’t evacuate the penthouse and condemn its residents to the poorhouse. — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 24 Jan. 2020 See More

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