How to Use endowment in a Sentence

endowment

noun

• The college has a large endowment.
• The hospital's endowment was established by a local family.
• However, the judge found that the grandchildren have not shown enough evidence to force an accounting of the endowment.
  — John Lynch, Arkansas Online, 24 Feb. 2022
• One of the big investors in Romania in this period is the Harvard University endowment.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2022
• Most of the works were sold in 1983, with the proceeds going to the dental school’s endowment.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2023
• The school will now use that endowment land and money to build the research dairy.
  — Keith Ridler, ajc, 20 Sep. 2022
• When the house is sold or transferred … the deposit money comes back to the endowment account for others to use.
  — Joshua Bowling, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2022
• Even with the drop-off, the university still has an endowment of $50.9 billion, among the highest in the country.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 15 Oct. 2022
• The same thing goes for all children, of course, whatever their endowments.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• The funds will help to expand programming and to shore up the museum’s endowment.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2023
• By the end of his tenure, the school’s endowment had quadrupled, growing from $5 million to $20 million.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
• As the anti-apartheid campaign has shown, abuses that appear far and hard to reach can be as near and dear as the school endowment and stock holdings.
  — WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022
• Xiong’s family has set up an endowment fund in his name.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 22 Jan. 2024
• Small schools with small endowments Florida A&M is not the first school to receive a pitch from Gerami.
  — James Pollard, Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2024
• Places like the Getty and the Met, with multibillion-dollar endowments, are worthy but not needy, though the Met is worthy only part of the time.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 22 June 2023
• About a dozen pension funds and endowments have gotten back to me over the past couple days regarding ByteDance.
  — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 9 May 2024
• The Next Stage Fund is a new endowment program based on the idea of designating money to the theater in patrons’ wills.
  — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2024
• No college with an endowment greater than $1 billion has endorsed the campaign, noted the Times.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• The Schreibers’ gift is the first for this endowment, which, when fully funded, could support hundreds of Loyola students a year.
  — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 6 June 2022
• Or, the institution may even sell the work to build endowment or scholarship funds.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 June 2022
• The endowment will not fund operational expenses, but sustain Boerner into the future, Hayward said.
  — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2022
• Its endowment, battered by the market in recent years, stands at around $125 million.
  — Malcolm Gay, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
• Harvard agreed to discuss with students its endowment and their questions about its connections to the war in Gaza.
  — Vimal Patel, New York Times, 17 May 2024
• Leon’s $1 million pledge to the nonprofit will be used to start an endowment fund — a financial gift that keeps on giving.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Apr. 2022
• He was asked him to stay on in a diminished role, and Rosenberg agreed, taking on fundraising, the AHM endowment program, and writing grants.
  — Melanie Savage, Hartford Courant, 5 Jan. 2023
• Despite having an endowment the size of a small country, no amount of money is ever enough.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 11 Apr. 2023
• That’s when the endowment enlisted Abelaye-Mateo to help the group identify its purpose and commit to it.
  — Sabrina Bodon, Sacramento Bee, 30 May 2024
• Columbia University, a focal point for the protests, has one of the largest school endowments in the nation at more than $13 billion.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2024
• Michael Bloomberg's organization Bloomberg Philanthropies announced a $600 million gift to the endowments of four historically Black medical schools.
  — CBS News, 6 Aug. 2024
• Crypto may paint itself as an industry of lone wolves and iconoclasts, but its promise of riches (and sure, disruptive technology) has attracted some of the world’s biggest capital allocators, from sovereign wealth funds to endowments.
  — Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024