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.
  • Any institution that does not adapt will die.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 12 May 2026
  • These lessons are not unique to one institution.
    — Ian Gibson, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Three years in the institution dashed those hopes.
    — O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 1 June 2026
  • Texas Tech seems to be an institution that doesn't get it at all.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
  • How many more institutions will be forced to cut their budgets?
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The room was a union of the arts, film and the city’s cultural institutions.
    — Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 2 Nov. 2025
  • But no city can sleep easy, and no cultural institution is safe.
    — New York Times, 15 July 2022
  • There's no secret sauce to try and get into the best institutions.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, USA Today, 19 May 2025
  • Most of the schools that have shut down are, like Mills, small, private institutions.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 19 May 2026
  • Bennet’s ouster was a low moment for a once-proud institution.
    — Debra J. Saunders, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The incident marks the third inmate death tied to the institution in a span of a month.
    — Nick Lentz, CBS News, 7 June 2026
  • That rarely makes institutions stronger.
    — Jonathan Alpert Outkick, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The entire institution stands by those freedoms and our work.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The first is that many of these institutions are too rich to deserve endless public largesse.
    — Emma Green, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • That's what social institutions try to do.
    — Outside Online, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Earnest Americans are the ones who wield the glue guns in this grand institution.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2022
  • If changes to the staid institution are made, Jackson will likely be around to see them.
    — Madeleine Carlisle, Time, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The city has superb galleries and institutions that are home to world-class artworks.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Our institutions matter, but so does the behavior of those who lead us.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The harder question is not whether institutions can trade crypto around the clock.
    — Sean Lee, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • It is cultivated by institutions that tell the truth about who counts.
    — Jack Hill, Baltimore Sun, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The stakes also are high for the Fed's future as an institution.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The institutions of advanced economies are not failing in any narrow sense.
    — Dr. Aditya Vikram Kashyap, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • This historic institution is once again the nexus of local village life.
    — Mary Winston Nicklin, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 June 2026
  • For all of its panache, the Kirkland remains a small institution.
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 20 May 2024
  • Put them in a mental institution.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The next step is to secure access to the institution’s network.
    — Abdul Subhani, Forbes, 3 June 2022

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