How to Use restitute in a Sentence

restitute

verb

• Any items that were found to have been looted would be restituted.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2018
• Works that had been confiscated by the Nazis and not restituted should be identified.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2018
• Following a lengthy legal battle, a Dutch museum restituted the painting to the family last year.
  — Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Feb. 2023
• The Greek government first made a formal request for the Parthenon marbles to be restituted in 1983.
  — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 1 Sep. 2026
• Numerous artworks plundered by the Nazis have been properly restituted, but thousands more are unaccounted for—or are tied up in legal challenges.
  — Berthold Steinhilber, Smithsonian, 24 May 2018
• In March, the Orsay was also the first French museum to voluntarily restitute a painting looted by the Nazis.
  — Vincent Noce, CNN, 26 May 2021
• The Dutch government only restituted 202 paintings to Goudstikker’s heirs in 2006.
  — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 13 July 2026
• Meanwhile, other museums and private collectors, particularly in Germany, had agreed to restitute Glaser works sold at the two 1933 auctions.
  — Catherine Hickley, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2020
• Of the several hundred works that escaped the mobs and were subsequently found by invading Allied forces, just 54 have been restituted to the descendants of their original Jewish owners.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 24 July 2019
• But an independent German commission recommended in 2023 that the painting be restituted.
  — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 1 Sep. 2026
• At the end of 1998, the Washington Conference tried to wrestle with the question of why so many assets seized from Jews during the Holocaust had never been restituted.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2018
• The Italian parliament is advancing legislation to create a formal process for restituting art and cultural property looted by the Nazis under Italian Fascist racial laws.
  — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 8 July 2026
• This is part of a legislative step to restitute 26 artifacts back to Benin, and to formally transfer ownership of the sword to Senegal within one year—but that movement began in 2017, before the MCN call.
  — Gabrielle Hickmon, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2020
• The work was restituted in 2023 to the heirs of Albert Lewenstein and Hedwig Lewenstein-Weyermann, who had loaned it to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam for safekeeping prior to fleeing the Netherlands ahead of the country’s Nazi occupation.
  — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 2 Sep. 2026