Examples of 'poorhouse' in a sentence
Meaning of "poorhouse"
poorhouse (noun) - historically, an institution where impoverished individuals were housed and provided with basic necessities in exchange for work. The term is now obsolete and often used to describe a place or situation of extreme poverty
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- A charitable institution where poor or homeless people are lodged.
- A workhouse.
How to use "poorhouse" in a sentence
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I can tort you into the poorhouse.
The poorhouse and the hospital.
He wants to spend his life in the poorhouse.
You will be in the poorhouse along with the rest of us sinners.
Just about enough for a room in a poorhouse.
Largely for them the poorhouse and the asylum exist.
You kids are gonna put me in the poorhouse.
Poorhouse is nothing to be ashamed of.
To keep you people out of the poorhouse.
To the poorhouse.
They are waiting for you at the poorhouse.
The traces of the old poorhouse can still also be found on the roadside.
Sending your husband rocketing to the poorhouse.
You said poorhouse.
He never sent his grandmother to the poorhouse.
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I should have left you in the poorhouse when your mother died.
I do not mean to return you to the poorhouse.
The facade of the poorhouse has changed somewhat from its original appearance.
You sent her to the poorhouse to weep.
He ran away because he did not wish to die in a poorhouse.
The complex of buildings of the poorhouse and the city hospital.
I do not want a groom who lives in the poorhouse.
You found them moaning in the poorhouse and had them carted back to your garret.
I will tort you into the poorhouse.
The existing poorhouse in Freeport was substandard.
You found them moaning in the poorhouse.
From the poorhouse to the penthouse There is a name for this success story.
Laugh yourself right into the poorhouse.
First County Poorhouse will be sent to a brand new building.
He likes them all the way to the poorhouse.
There is a poorhouse in Settle.
She will put me in the poorhouse.
He spent his last years in the poorhouse of the Reformed Church in Store Kongensgade.
You are putting him in the poorhouse.
I better go in the poorhouse and die, and be a riddance.
They are taking you to the poorhouse.
But after all, the poorhouse is not a jail.
You are trying to put me in the poorhouse.
A school, a hospital and a poorhouse were affiliated with the church.
I will see you in the poorhouse.
He's two steps from the poorhouse with a wife in the nuthouse.
I have got a long commute from the poorhouse.
You wanna end up in the poorhouse when you are old?
But we are too old to live in a poorhouse.
You sent her to the poorhouse to weep - for her stolen child.
You kids are going to put me in the poorhouse.
Moy's removal from the poorhouse was intended to return her to the exhibition hall.
They will go live in the poorhouse.
Eddie, I dropped into the poorhouse last visiting ' day and conditions were terrible.
Only to find her dying in a poorhouse.
