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
• 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
• 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