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
• 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
• 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
• The groups visited the prison infirmaries and some lawmakers spoke with an inmate in hospice.
  — oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• Photographs of Rainey’s body, taken in the prison infirmary after his death, show pieces of skin peeling off nearly every area of his body, from the tip of his nose to his legs.
  — Julie K. Brown, miamiherald, 29 May 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024