How to Use institution in a Sentence

institution

noun

• She's not interested in the institution of marriage.
• The play has become something of an institution on Broadway.
• Family visits are a Thanksgiving institution.
• These views are her own and not those of her institution.
  — Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
• Texas Tech seems to be an institution that doesn't get it at all.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
• Earnest Americans are the ones who wield the glue guns in this grand institution.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2022
• Here’s a sign of how just long The Beach Boys have been a cultural institution.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 11 Apr. 2023
• The fund’s sister institution, the World Bank, has a much gloomier view.
  — David J. Lynch, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Jan. 2023
• For all of its panache, the Kirkland remains a small institution.
  — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 20 May 2024
• The King’s Singers are an institution in the world of classical music.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 Mar. 2023
• The institutions have produced some of the best and brightest Black thinkers who have shaped society.
  — C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
• The path to the Olympics The Olympics, in its modern form, is a 128-year-old institution with events like track and field forming a quintessential part of it.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune Europe, 4 Aug. 2024
• The program is seen as a way to help clients stay in their home and avoid the higher costs of hospitals and other institutions.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2023
• If that’s true, Americans will lose trust in yet another institution, and the court will lose touch with the will of the people.
  — Mary Ziegler, CNN, 22 Nov. 2022
• Cool off from your beach day at Angel’s Ice Cream, a local institution for sweet treats over 20 years.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2023
• The figure makes the Howard County parish one of a handful of Catholic institutions home to a large number of staff who abused minors over an 80-year span.
  — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2023
• But after the Court’s ruling, schools weren’t the only private institutions that found themselves in the crosshairs of DEI’s critics.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• Thus unspools a road to education that takes her around the world and into some of the most storied institutions on the planet.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 29 June 2024
• The medal is the highest distinction from the institution, which was created in 1898.
  — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 8 Feb. 2025
• The victims include three young students of the private, Christian institution and three adults who worked there.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 27 Mar. 2023
• Gay is the second Black woman to serve as president of an Ivy League institution.
  — Marybeth Gasman, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• A lot of institutions need to be held accountable for this period of time.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2023
• The decision to not support an institution with roots in the city extending back to 1856 is not without angst, Stephens says.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 16 Feb. 2023
• The league, called Liga F, was one of the first soccer institutions to criticize Rubiales’ conduct.
  — Joseph Wilson, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2023
• Over half of all incidents at these institutions were bomb threats.
  — Sara Chernikoff, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2024
• While the rules may vary depending on the institution, there are basic guidelines.
  — Jazmin Towe, Parents, 19 Apr. 2024
• The president has also tried to make changes to specific long-standing institutions in the U.S. such as the Kennedy Center.
  — Charna Flam, People.com, 11 Feb. 2025
• Another sign shows what purports to be the logo of the Hong Kong Jockey Club (a world-famous institution).
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 6 Feb. 2023
• As noted above, the states only asked for this relief on behalf of institutions located within their borders, and that is all that was granted.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Feb. 2025
• That's far below what many institutions have been getting to maintain buildings and equipment and pay support staff and other overhead expenses.
  — Rob Stein, NPR, 8 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 26 Feb 2025