How to Use nursing home in a Sentence

nursing home

noun
  • Their first was at a nursing home.
    Max Bacall , Tessa Hoyos , Nikos Degruccio, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2026
  • His dad had moved to a nursing home last month.
    Conor Wight, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Last week, the herd poked their trunks through the doors of a nursing home.
    Sha Hua, WSJ, 8 June 2021
  • Yet many of them have been stuck at nursing homes for more than three years.
    Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 18 June 2024
  • Papa died just a few years prior to my stint at the nursing home.
    Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 30 Nov. 2022
  • But then her mother got sick and had to move into a nursing home.
    Jonah Markowitz, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Fodstad works in a nursing home to help with his Olympic dream.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Cameron's in a nursing home, and Ferris comes and breaks him out!
    Devan Coggan, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Then there’s the cost of extended care at nursing homes.
    Brian Baker Cfa, Boston Herald, 26 Mar. 2026
  • One commenter said the nursing home wouldn’t even want the flowers.
    Colson Thayer, People.com, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Which states have the biggest gap in nursing home staffing compared to the new rules?
    Jayme Fraser, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Though some workers were hired by the nursing home, many others have left for good.
    Olivia Goldhill, STAT, 26 May 2021
  • Inside is an invoice from a nursing home.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
  • My 98-year-old mother has spent the last eight years in a nursing home.
    Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Putting her in a nursing home and just visiting her once a month—that would break my heart.
    Isabelia Herrera, Pitchfork, 18 Oct. 2023
  • That’s why the woman had to be placed in a nursing home — her younger son was no longer around to help her.
    Caitlin Gibson, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2022
  • At one point, Cantway lived in a nursing home for a month, but didn’t like it.
    Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026
  • The same is true for those in nursing homes and care facilities.
    WSJ, 30 Nov. 2023
  • At the nursing home, every single window and most doors were blown out.
    USA Today, 10 Apr. 2023
  • But 36% of nursing home workers leave before a year on the job.
    CBS News, 13 Dec. 2025
  • My mother-in-law is 87 and does not want to go into a nursing home.
    Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
  • For families who need nursing home care, the price tags were even higher.
    Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 25 Mar. 2026
  • For the directors, the nursing home acts as a symbol.
    Callum McLennan, Variety, 14 Apr. 2026
  • But a few nights later, on that same couch in the nursing home lobby, there was Scout.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The nursing home still needs gifts for about 40 residents.
    Noel Brennan, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
  • The man explained that his father had died in a nursing home and never saw a doctor.
    Hannah Dreier, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Dec. 2021
  • The decision kept her from being confined to a nursing home for the rest of her life.
    Johnny Magdaleno, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The couple who fell in love in the dining hall of their Valley nursing home.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2021
  • The town was down to a single hotel, a single store, a single nursing home.
    WIRED, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The brownstone was built for this, a product of a culture that predates the nursing home.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 2 Oct. 2025

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