as in sanatorium
Related Words
Relevance
Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of sanitarium
Bolsheviks shot its monks in the first years of the Soviet Union, and converted the complex into a sanitarium and a cinema.
—
Ainara Tiefenthäler, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2022
Among them was a TB sanitarium that became the seed for today’s City of Hope, the renowned cancer treatment and research center.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2022
When Hoover was a teen-ager, Dickerson was institutionalized for a time at a sanitarium in Laurel, Maryland.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
The map that indicates which rooms are situated in the old hospital wings, like the sanitarium, add to the spookiness.
—Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2022
See All Example Sentences for sanitarium
Ainara Tiefenthäler, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2022
Among them was a TB sanitarium that became the seed for today’s City of Hope, the renowned cancer treatment and research center.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2022
When Hoover was a teen-ager, Dickerson was institutionalized for a time at a sanitarium in Laurel, Maryland.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
The map that indicates which rooms are situated in the old hospital wings, like the sanitarium, add to the spookiness.
—Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2022
See All Example Sentences for sanitarium
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanitarium
Noun
-
Investigators, however, have not been able to find records of patients from the time the sanatorium closed.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
12 Feb. 2026
-
These prescriptive measures took place in isolated medical facilities known as sanatoriums, and some of the fancier ones resembled a cross between a hospital and a resort.—
Outside,
Outside,
31 Jan. 2026
Noun
-
Tatmon suffered a nonfatal gunshot wound and later checked himself into a hospital, police said.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
22 Feb. 2026
-
Two of the six who survived the avalanche were taken to hospitals.—
Michael McGough,
Sacbee.com,
22 Feb. 2026
Noun
-
If hospice patients can grow and change at the end of life, why not grow and change now?—
Arianna Huffington,
Time,
16 Feb. 2026
-
The hospice is more like a sanitarium, a European spa our parents might have frequented before the war.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Feb. 2026
Noun
-
Inside the Old Louisville murder house: This Old Louisville mansion was home to a grave in a wine cellar, a sanitorium and a cult.—
Kirby Adams,
The Courier-Journal,
25 May 2022
-
My great-grandmother died from tuberculosis in a sanitorium with concrete floors.—
Ben Lerner,
The New York Review of Books,
23 July 2020
Cite this Entry
“Sanitarium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanitarium. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
