How to Use sanatorium in a Sentence

sanatorium

noun
  • This led her to an image of a sanatorium with balcony railings that looked just like the one in the picture of Yvonne.
    Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Gladkov said the sanatorium in the village of Lavy, about 40km (25 miles) from the border, was shelled, killing two refugees and a staff member.
    Susie Blann, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Walser died in 1956, at the age of seventy-eight, of a heart attack during one of those walks, on Christmas Day, in a snowy field near the sanatorium.
    Marina Harss, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2019
  • At the sanatorium, the architecture itself was part of the cure.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 17 June 2020
  • During the third wave of the Spanish flu, between January and April 1919, the sanatorium's luck ran out.
    Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2020
  • In 1930 she was taken forcibly to a Swiss sanatorium, where she was treated by Sigmund Freud.
    Toyin Owoseje, CNN, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Two days later, Svitlana and Serhii crept along the sanatorium’s fence, searching for the men.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • His latest idea was that the sole existing joint photograph of Jeanne and Yvonne had been taken at the sanatorium in Leysin.
    Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Her luck seems to change when she is sent to a sanatorium on an island, but a mysterious lady warns her about it.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Some faced less lethal forms of persecution, such as Käthe Abels, who ran a small sanatorium outside of Berlin.
    Samuel Huneke, CNN, 2 June 2022
  • The fate of the other 11 children also taken from the Mariupol sanatorium to the Donetsk clinic is not known.
    Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Steinem took care of her mother, who struggled with depression and spent time in sanatoriums.
    Donna Larcen, courant.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • As she's put under the care of the sanatorium's head nurse Geneviève (played by director Laurent herself), Eugénie struggles to adapt to life at Salpêtrière.
    CNN, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Rappe spent three days in the hotel room, her pain dulled with morphine, before she was finally transferred to a sanatorium.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • In 1931, Princess Alice suffered from a nervous breakdown and she was confined to a sanatorium in Switzerland.
    Katie Jones, Town & Country, 24 July 2017
  • In 1931, Princess Alice suffered from a nervous breakdown and she was confined to a sanatorium in Switzerland.
    Katie Frost, Town & Country, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Open-air prophylaxis was available to paying clients at a sanatorium, but not the families of workers or the poor.
    Daniela Blei, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2020
  • In Vals, Switzerland, not 70 miles from Davos (once studded with about 40 sanatoriums), thermal waters run through the valley’s granite walls.
    New York Times, 18 Feb. 2018
  • What to make of Lucrécia, what to make of his wife who was embroidering in the sanatorium and would ask for red thread and lift her head hopefully when her husband arrived.
    Benjamin Moser, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
  • Elin Warner must find her estranged brother's fiancée, who goes missing as a storm approaches a hotel that was once a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps.
    New York Times, Star Tribune, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The center first opened in 1908 and was a sanatorium for people with tuberculosis.
    Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2018
  • The first looks at three days in the life of legendary Austrian film star Romy Schneider, who, while visiting a sanatorium in 1981, conducts one of her final press interviews.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Jan. 2018
  • The governor of Belgorod region, which neighbors Ukraine and has come under frequent attack, said the drone hit a sanatorium in a village.
    Reuters, NBC News, 23 Aug. 2023
  • She was put in a sanatorium in Vienna in 1930 and later moved to an institution in Lower Austria.
    Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The Party boss decided that the road from the sanatorium to Vladivostok—the route along which Brezhnev and Ford’s motorcade would travel on a sightseeing trip—would reflect the city’s rebirth.
    Alex Halberstadt, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2020
  • The Ukrainian prosecutor-general’s office said the bodies of five men with their hands bound were found in the basement of a children’s sanatorium where civilians were tortured and killed.
    Oleksandr Stashevskyi, chicagotribune.com, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Portugal’s first mountain resort was built at Casa das Penhas Douradas, which later served as a sanatorium.
    Christine Chitnis, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Stokes concludes that Darger wrote and painted compulsively to mitigate the pain of having been abandoned as a child and endlessly abused in the state sanatorium.
    Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The mathematician suffered from severe depression and was in and out of asylums, dying in 1918 in a sanatorium.
    George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2013
  • Despite being situated right next to Palermo’s busy port, Villa Igiea itself is like a peaceful refuge, or, some might say, a modern-day sanatorium for the mind and soul.
    Isabelle Kliger, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021

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