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.
• 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
• 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
• The league, called Liga F, was one of the first soccer institutions to criticize Rubiales’ conduct.
  — Joseph Wilson, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2023
• Founded in 1982, Buc-ee’s has become an institution for those taking road trips throughout the South.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 15 June 2023
• Also, a person or an institution can look ridiculous in trying to be cool.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 4 Apr. 2024
• Major college football coaching is one of the least diverse institutions in all of sports.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
• Now the age-old institution is eyeing a major revamp to cope with dwindling demand.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 25 Jan. 2024
• Fife’s is an institution and a long-time favorite in Birmingham.
  — Shauna Stuart | [e-mail], al, 24 July 2023
• These have led to the displacement and death of many people and the destruction of their cultural artifacts, institutions and homes.
  — Sharareh Drury, Variety, 26 Mar. 2024
• But many Mizrahim still feel a grievance toward the Ashkenazim, who continue to hold sway over key institutions.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 23 July 2023
• Some of these pieces had already gone on display and been examined at research institutions.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024
• The institution is Buckingham Palace, which the prince has accused of brokering deals with the tabloids — rather than calling out their excesses and defending him and his wife, Meghan.
  — Stephen Castle, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2023
• The royal institution has backed itself into a corner here.
  — Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2024
• Jay Hartzell, the university’s president, is showing me around, pointing out all of the landmarks—including the buildings adorned with the name of the institution’s most famous dropout.
  — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
• That's what Simmons and company got into at an east side pizza institution this week.
  — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2023
• These institutions should face a moral reckoning, lest they be given more chances to succeed in eroding this nation’s moral compass.
  — WSJ, 7 Nov. 2023
• The college's enrollment decline fits with the trend among the 16 institutions in the public technical college system.
  — Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2024
• The funds raised will go toward repairs to cultural institutions, many of which were hurt badly by the natural disaster.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2023
• The cultures of the two institutions are really different, even today.
  — Charles R. Hunt, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2023
• And, remember, this institution plays a central role in our society and culture.
  — CBS News, 18 June 2023
• And large numbers of remains recovered from Illinois are held by institutions in other states.
  — John O’Connor and Melissa Perez Winder, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2023
• Missing an institution’s deadline could mean missing out on aid.
  — Nerdwallet, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2023
• While most academic medical centers have in-house labs, other institutions have to send out tumor samples for testing, which can take three or four weeks or longer.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
• The Met’s Costume Institute will devote its fall show to a survey of the work of female fashion designers — the first such retrospective in the roughly 85 years of the institution’s existence.
  — Yasmina Price, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• Those were just two of the dozens of hoax threats allegedly made against religious, educational and public institutions across the country this summer.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• The party-line success of Johnson came after 24 days with a leaderless House, stymying the work of Congress and potentially causing long-term damage to the institution.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2023
• This unique institution, which offers labor and civil rights leadership training, has its own risk.
  — David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024