How to Use nursing home in a Sentence

nursing home

noun
Definition of nursing homenext
Synonyms for nursing homenext
  • Cameron's in a nursing home, and Ferris comes and breaks him out!
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The Prairie View nursing home in Sanborn, Iowa, is one of them.
    — Tony Leys, NBC News, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Then, in 2021, Jeanne tracked Stephen down to a nursing home in Chicago and made amends.
    — Nick Maslow, Peoplemag, 14 Feb. 2023
  • But a few nights later, on that same couch in the nursing home lobby, there was Scout.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The United States spends more than $90 billion a year on nursing home stays.
    — Jayme Fraser, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The Senate is the most privileged nursing home in the country.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • There have been countless birthdays, from a 1-year-old to a 100-year-old at his nursing home.
    — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Putting her in a nursing home and just visiting her once a month—that would break my heart.
    — Isabelia Herrera, Pitchfork, 18 Oct. 2023
  • So a lot of these donations came from big nursing homes.
    — Staff Reports, cleveland, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The town was down to a single hotel, a single store, a single nursing home.
    — WIRED, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Justina Worrell, 47, works part time as a kitchen helper in an Ohio nursing home.
    — David Hilzenrath, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Amy told the outlet that Clouse had worked at a nursing home and owned chickens, two goats, a pig and dogs, per the Detroit News.
    — Laura Barcella, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2023
  • At the nursing home, every single window and most doors were blown out.
    — USA Today, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The same is true for those in nursing homes and care facilities.
    — WSJ, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The shots were later determined to have come from the parking lot of a nearby nursing home.
    — Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • And homeless shelters or nursing homes that aren't equipped to take care of these patients won't take them.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
  • But by mid-2005, Morrisseau was ill and living in a nursing home.
    — Jordan Michael Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Her dad was lonely in his nursing home; Parkinson’s had worn down his body, but his mind was still sharp.
    — Rhaina Cohen, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Agent Malik tracked Red down to a local nursing home, sending the Task Force to capture him.
    — Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 14 July 2023
  • They were joined Tuesday by 1,000 workers at a dozen nursing homes who are planning a one-day strike.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Kempner, who died at a nursing home in Connecticut, was born in the Bronx, N.Y.
    — Valerie Wu, Variety, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The nursing home director and an official in the town hall confirmed the death but did not specify the cause.
    — Phil Davison, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Patients treated with tPA are also less likely to need long-term care in a nursing home.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Elsie has cerebral palsy and lives in a nursing home; Lente is her caregiver.
    — Cecilia Nowell, CBS News, 18 July 2023
  • The majority take place in health care settings such as nursing homes.
    — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The writer should look into contacting the ombudsman for the nursing home.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023
  • About 35% of people who reach age 65 are expected to enter a nursing home at least once in their lifetime.
    — Diane Omdahl, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • At one point, Skyline owned one out of every 10 nursing home beds in Arkansas.
    — John Lynch, Arkansas Online, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Neumann, who turned 100 last September, now lives in a nursing home and uses a walker to get around.
    — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Pace called a couple of them and asked about getting a group together to sing at a nursing home, and that’s how Just Having Fun Singers began.
    — Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 6 Jan. 2023

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