INSTITUTION in a Sentence

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He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.

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 Meanings and Examples of INSTITUTION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
institution
 n.  institute; organization; introducing something new
Classic Sentence: (98 in 7 pages)
1  But in a corrupted city this institution grew to be most mischievous.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII.
2  An institution such as that was well-nigh as difficult to end as to begin.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
3  Such an institution, from its wide powers, great responsibilities, large control of moneys, and generally conspicuous position, was naturally open to repeated and bitter attack.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
4  Of the foes without the Bureau, the bitterest were those who attacked not so much its conduct or policy under the law as the necessity for any such institution at all.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
5  The passing of a great human institution before its work is done, like the untimely passing of a single soul, but leaves a legacy of striving for other men.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
6  Such an institution the South of to-day sorely needs.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In V
7  It was a terrific social revolution, and yet some traces were retained of the former group life, and the chief remaining institution was the Priest or Medicine-man.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
8  First, it became almost entirely Baptist and Methodist in faith; secondly, as a social institution it antedated by many decades the monogamic Negro home.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
9  The second fact noted, namely, that the Negro church antedates the Negro home, leads to an explanation of much that is paradoxical in this communistic institution and in the morals of its members.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
10  But especially it leads us to regard this institution as peculiarly the expression of the inner ethical life of a people in a sense seldom true elsewhere.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
11  He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I.
12  Having once got its tentacles fastened on to the economic and social life of the Republic, it was no easy matter for the country to relieve itself of the institution.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I.
13  The hurtful influences of the institution were not by any means confined to the Negro.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I.
14  He was just as happy in trying to assist some other institution in the South as he was when working for Hampton.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III.
15  To meet this cash payment, as I have stated, I had just fifty cents when I reached the institution.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III.
Example Sentence: (109 in 8 pages)
16  He had defended the institution of a celibate priesthood.
17  Life itself, without the assistance of colleges and universities, is becoming an advanced institution of learning.
18  The British pub isn't just somewhere to drink - it's an institution.
19  We're searching for a couple of runaways from the young offenders' institution.
20  That old man in the park is a regular institution.
21  We want this to be like a home, not an institution.
22  I was determined not to put my mother in an institution.
23  Unbelievably, our Government are now planning to close this magnificent institution.
24  They heard sob-stuff from one man about his deprived childhood in an institution.
25  Many people with dementia would rather remain at home than be placed in an institution.
26  Some nationalists would like to depict the British monarchy as a purely English institution.
27  The tradi-tionalist influences within the navy marked it off as a rather old-fashioned institution.
28  The government built a charitable institution for the education of young children.
29  Fish and chips have become a British institution.
30  His grand design was to connect up every academic institution in the world.