Incredible as it may seem to Europe and Asia, it is true that even thepoorhouses in Iowa and Kansas were used last year as storehouses for wheat.
The churches were half empty; the temperance reading-rooms were shut up; the Mechanics' Institute no longer got support; only the jails and the poorhouses were crowded.
Even thepoorhouses shut up, and paupers did not escape.
Jim was busy poring over his note-book, and getting Daniel to put down in round numbers the amount of poor in the poorhouses and in the streets, which they had found in some newspaper.
Not a few English parishes emptied their poorhouses by sending the helpless inmates to the New World.
In the Philadelphia poorhousesin the early thirties, from one third to one half of the inmates were foreign-born.
One very interesting development in Stratford shows the difference between the poorhouses of subsequent centuries and the almshouses of Columbus' Century.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poorhouses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
