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.
  • These views are her own and not those of her institution.
    — Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Texas Tech seems to be an institution that doesn't get it at all.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Earnest Americans are the ones who wield the glue guns in this grand institution.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Here’s a sign of how just long The Beach Boys have been a cultural institution.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The fund’s sister institution, the World Bank, has a much gloomier view.
    — David J. Lynch, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Jan. 2023
  • There's no secret sauce to try and get into the best institutions.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, USA Today, 19 May 2025
  • For all of its panache, the Kirkland remains a small institution.
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 20 May 2024
  • The third notable finding from Pew was a growing sense that the Supreme Court as an institution had grown too strong.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The King’s Singers are an institution in the world of classical music.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • The path to the Olympics The Olympics, in its modern form, is a 128-year-old institution with events like track and field forming a quintessential part of it.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune Europe, 4 Aug. 2024
  • The Supreme Court is not a democratic institution, of course.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 7 July 2022
  • The program is seen as a way to help clients stay in their home and avoid the higher costs of hospitals and other institutions.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2023
  • If that’s true, Americans will lose trust in yet another institution, and the court will lose touch with the will of the people.
    — Mary Ziegler, CNN, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Cool off from your beach day at Angel’s Ice Cream, a local institution for sweet treats over 20 years.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2023
  • In 2023 the piece of art will briefly spend time in the National Portrait Gallery in London to mark the institution's reopening.
    — Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 23 June 2022
  • The figure makes the Howard County parish one of a handful of Catholic institutions home to a large number of staff who abused minors over an 80-year span.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The Barons are an institution in Birmingham, and one of the more prestigious minor-league clubs in the country.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 23 July 2022
  • All ticket sales go to the non-profit film institution.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Men were more confident in the Supreme Court as an institution that women (47% vs. 28%).
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Thus unspools a road to education that takes her around the world and into some of the most storied institutions on the planet.
    — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 29 June 2024
  • But no city can sleep easy, and no cultural institution is safe.
    — New York Times, 15 July 2022
  • The Strand bookstore is a classic New York institution.
    — Dana Givens, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The medal is the highest distinction from the institution, which was created in 1898.
    — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 8 Feb. 2025
  • The university joins many other institutions across the country that have canceled affinity graduations after the federal cracked down on funding for colleges.
    — Claretta Bellamy, NBC news, 29 May 2025
  • In addition to being a measure of state power, hegemony reflects the ability of a single nation to influence both the actions of others and the rules, norms and institutions that govern international politics.
    — Andrew Latham, The Conversation, 30 May 2025

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