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[ US /əˈsaɪɫəm/ ]
[ UK /ɐsˈa‍ɪləm/ ]
NOUN
  1. a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
  2. a shelter from danger or hardship

How To Use asylum In A Sentence

  • An asylum seeker with insulin dependent diabetes has recently had her claim for asylum rejected.
  • Gein did not stand trial but lived out his days in a mental asylum.
  • Having sought asylum in the West for many years, they were eventually granted it.
  • His criticism was over the failure to deport foreign citizens after they had served a jail sentence and the backlog of failed asylum cases. Times, Sunday Times
  • Asylum's MFP NanoIndenter is a true "instrumented" indenter and is the first AFM-based indenter that does not use cantilevers as part of the indenting mechanism. Nano Tech Wire
  • The Home Office said at that time that it was minded to reject his application for political asylum.
  • Victorian values might include slavery, children down the mines and chimney sweeps up the stack, as well as gin parlours and asylums.
  • Another of his great-uncles was called Richard, whose son drowned as a small child and whose wife was so upset by the loss she ended up in a mental asylum.
  • But the report dismisses claims that Leeds is swamped by asylum seekers who have access to a wide range of benefits.
  • In addition to economic migration there are those fleeing war and persecution or seeking asylum. Times, Sunday Times
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