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
• 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
• As part of the deal, the developer will oversee the work on the chapel and the infirmary.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• The inmate will be held in an isolated cell in the infirmary for two weeks.
  — Emilie Eaton, ExpressNews.com, 16 Apr. 2020
• 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
• Yet stricter infirmaries did not allow them, for fear of self-harm.
  — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
• On Sundays, a nurse took the children across the street to visit their mother, Rose, at the infirmary.
  — Karen Herzog, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2018
• 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
• Our courthouse was used as an infirmary in the Civil War.
  — Pat McDonogh, The Courier-Journal, 10 Mar. 2020
• Garcia may join him in the infirmary with his knee ailment.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2021
• 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
• Davis first went to the infirmary in July 2016 complaining of back pain and numbness on his right foot and leg.
  — Kristine Phillips, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2017
• A bus took the survivors to an infirmary, where, Doehner said, a nurse gave him a needle to burst his blisters.
  — Shawn Marsh, chicagotribune.com, 6 May 2017
• And finally, there’s an aviary for large birds that includes a kitchen and infirmary.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 20 Nov. 2023
• Two of those inmates are in the hospital; the others are isolated in the jail infirmary.
  — Peggy O’Hare, ExpressNews.com, 20 Apr. 2020
• Since lockdown, my apartment had served as my home, a workplace and an infirmary.
  — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2021
• Cheeks was released from prison last year, after serving nearly 38 years in prison and the last two years living in the prison infirmary.
  — Ivana Hrynkiw | [e-mail], al, 20 Apr. 2023
• Blessing, who is being held in a jail infirmary, refused to be brought to court Thursday.
  — Fox News, 19 July 2018
• Later, the pigtailed girl refused to leave her bunk, and Klein took her to the infirmary for a temperature check.
  — Ellen Barry, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
• Later, the pigtailed girl refused to leave her bunk, and Ms. Klein took her to the infirmary for a temperature check.
  — Ellen Barry Brittainy Newman, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
• Person was taken to the prison infirmary and then to UAB Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 8:51 a.m.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 27 June 2023
• After Razz bought the land, two logging camp buildings became the rec hall and the mess hall; others would become the office and infirmary.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2020
• Feeling unwell one day, Bunch went to the infirmary, which found her blood pressure soaring.
  — Amy Goldstein, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Mar. 2023
• He was later transferred to an infirmary at the Rikers Island jail.
  — NBC News, 11 Mar. 2020
• But only a few people outside of the prisons know what’s going on inside the infirmaries.
  — Andy Marso, kansascity, 21 Jan. 2018
• Behind it was a church, a visitation room, an infirmary, and the market.
  — 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
• The infirmary had a private bathroom with a door, but there was no way to flush the toilet other than pouring a bucket of water into it.
  — Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 19 Oct 2024