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.
• He was institutionalized for months, maybe two or three times.
  — Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 22 Jan. 2024
• After more than a decade of this, she was institutionalized against her will.
  — Vulture, 23 Oct. 2023
• People who would have at one time been institutionalized are living in group homes.
  — Yvonne Wenger, Washington Post, 4 June 2019
• Tech led the charge in many regards and institutionalized the ping pong table.
  — Mike Weinberger, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
• 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
• China is also staying in the game by seeking to institutionalize its role in the talks.
  — Rush Doshi, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2018
• 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
• Claudel never sculpted again and spent the final thirty years of her life institutionalized.
  — Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2024
• 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
• After she is institutionalized, a letter arrives from a man claiming to be her father.
  — The New Yorker, 15 July 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
• There’s such a thing as male privilege, and that is institutionalized as patriarchy.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 25 June 2017
• But with these traits, the Kennedys would have been advised to institutionalize Rosemary.
  — Joseph Choi, The Hill, 2 June 2025
• Iran has sought to institutionalize its control of the strait possibly through a toll system after the conflict ends.
  — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 15 Apr. 2026
• What matters now is how that history will be institutionalized.
  — Andre Dowell, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2026
• And for so many people who are institutionalized, their life is literally a hallway.
  — Cory Turner, NPR, 20 June 2026
• 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
• The Kurds have institutionalized it, lavishing resources on both the dead and their survivors.
  — Rod Nordland, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2018
• Honesty is the part nobody wants to institutionalize.
  — Flavio Maluf, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
• The power to institutionalize diversity and all its wonderful values has to start from the top.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Notably, none of them give money away the way the men who built modern philanthropy did (which was largely institutionalized and apolitical).
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 14 July 2026
• Narrative as news can best be understood as a reflexive process of meaning-making in the realm of news and institutionalized public debate.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Mar. 2026
• 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