Similar words: manor house, powerhouse, porterhouse, neighborhood, poor, in the neighborhood of, spoor, poorly. Meaning: n. an establishment maintained at public expense in order to provide housing for the poor and homeless.
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1. Sanitation was primitive and the poorhouses in regular use.
2. At best she'd be back in the poorhouse while he ... it didn't bear thinking of.
3. The fair at the vanished poorhouse.
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4. If Jimmy keeps spending like this, he's going to end up in the poorhouse .
5. When that breaks down, they're sent to what used to be the poorhouse.
6. Having exhausted her savings, Annie Taylor now faced the poorhouse.
7. He would push me in my go-cart out Market Street past the statue of the Indian and on out Rose Avenue to the poorhouse.
8. I was certain I was on the brink of poverty, going to the poorhouse.
9. And since we're obligated to link our credit cards to Apple, micropayments are built in, providing traditional media companies with at least a hope of avoiding the poorhouse.
10. One forlorn fragment of dollanity had belonged to Jo and, having led a tempestuous life, was left a wreck in the rag bag, from which dreary poorhouse it was rescued by Beth and taken to her refuge.
11. You many perhaps have some pleasant , thrilling , glorious hours , even in a poorhouse .
12. More recent U.S. presidents have been far from the poorhouse but, in our judgment, were not among the top 10 while in office.
13. Being the first novel in his literary career, The Poorhouse Fair , in spite of its immature writing technique, has laid foundation for Updike's religious theme in his future creation.
14. Cindy: That's why you married a penny-pincher. If I left it up to you, we'd be in the poorhouse by now!
15. Taiwan's success in electronics is a prime example of economic policies that lifted the island from poorhouse to powerhouse in a generation.
16. The faultfinder will find faults in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse.
17. As a result, the rich blink another time Heng Kong born, a simple and thrifty and the poorhouse so the annihilation.
18. The fact is, if the task were left entirely up to him, we'd be in the poorhouse on just his purchases of mega-jars of pickles.
19. Don't go overboard or you may end up in the poorhouse overspending to impress someone who may only be around for a short time.
20. It was not are cord of imaginary transactions such as so many people keep merely to make or lose millions of dollars without getting the swelled head or going to the poorhouse.
21. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse .
22. In the XIX century the event got out of hand more than once and as a result the handout was first moved from the church to the poorhouse and later still to the Old Workhouse.
23. Says Gross, "There's nothing that says you have to love the customer [all the way] to the poorhouse."
24. The tax money is used to helped the prisons and the poorhouse, and that costs me enough.
25. You may perhaps have some pleasant, drilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse.
26. Transport most of us to ancient Rome and we'll find ourselves in a poorhouse or slave barracks.
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