How to Use institutionalize in a Sentence

institutionalize

verb

• They had to institutionalize their youngest son.
• It will take time to institutionalize these reforms.
• She was institutionalized for seven years.
• Through the years, the Chute became institutionalized, although the idea of going back to the Carousel was brought up from time to time, Page said.
  — Tom Fitzgerald, SFChronicle.com, 20 June 2019
• Now the AfD has institutionalized this vicious zeal with 13 percent of the vote and 94 seats in the Bundestag.
  — Henry Porter, vanityfair.com, 25 Sep. 2017
• But the bedrock of the show is the ugly truth that Brother Boy has been institutionalized for decades for being gay.
  — Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 23 July 2024
• By all accounts, Nik Cruz needs to be institutionalized, not put to death or jailed for life.
  — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• Tech led the charge in many regards and institutionalized the ping pong table.
  — Mike Weinberger, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
• Two of my patients, Lillian G. and Tillie A., have been institutionalized for more than 35 years, and have not seen the outside world for more than ten years.
  — Oliver Sacks, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
• The lingering tragedy of the embassy takeover is that Iran has institutionalized hostage-taking over the past forty years.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
• After more than a decade of this, she was institutionalized against her will.
  — Vulture, 23 Oct. 2023
• His son was institutionalized for most of his adult life.
  — National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2017
• That precedent has now been institutionalized, and one half of one percent of the building budgets is set aside for the program.
  — Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 14 Mar. 2016
• China is also staying in the game by seeking to institutionalize its role in the talks.
  — Rush Doshi, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2018
• He was institutionalized for months, maybe two or three times.
  — Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 22 Jan. 2024
• People who would have at one time been institutionalized are living in group homes.
  — Yvonne Wenger, Washington Post, 4 June 2019
• The Kurds have institutionalized it, lavishing resources on both the dead and their survivors.
  — Rod Nordland, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2018
• The impact of this unique approach can be seen in the story of an individual who had been institutionalized in Texas.
  — William Jones, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2024
• Around the same time, his son Pablo started to show signs of schizophrenia; Pablo was institutionalized, eventually taking his own life in 1994.
  — Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 4 Oct. 2024
• This is not a doom and gloom story because there’s a solution—a movement to institutionalize the friends and family round for Black entrepreneurs.
  — Lyneir Richardson, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2021
• The couple had two sons, the elder of whom was ultimately institutionalized with what may have been schizophrenia.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2019
• Be sure to institutionalize the brand across all your HR and operations functions, not just the marketing.
  — Jim Heininger, Forbes, 15 July 2022
• The people said the government is planning to reduce the thousands of PCR testing stations that have been set up across the country as part of the campaign to institutionalize testing, citing the cost.
  — Keith Zhai, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2022
• Claudel never sculpted again and spent the final thirty years of her life institutionalized.
  — Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2024
• The season introduced an adult Lottie, whose younger self had been institutionalized, as a vessel for this idea of the wilderness as its own conscious being that is calling the shots in the women’s lives.
  — Radhika Menon, ELLE, 29 May 2023
• People with asthma, and those who don’t get into the sun at all, like the homebound or institutionalized, may also be prescribed a supplement.
  — Julia Belluz, Vox, 9 Oct. 2018
• Survivors simply want the protections to remain in schools that the federal government and courts have institutionalized over the last four decades.
  — Teen Vogue, 11 July 2017
• Is this all to stop? Going out is the very breath of life for these unfortunate patients who have been not only institutionalized, but imprisoned in their symptoms, for up to fifty years. . . .
  — Oliver Sacks, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
• Hyams, a cigar-maker in Whitechapel, was first institutionalized in 1889 — some seven weeks following the fifth and final murder — for assaulting his wife and his mother with a knife.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
• The summit institutionalizes a partnership in which Tokyo and Seoul have agreed to set aside decades of bitterness to work toward stability in the region.
  — Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024