How to Use endowment in a Sentence

endowment

noun

• The college has a large endowment.
• The hospital's endowment was established by a local family.
• Most of the works were sold in 1983, with the proceeds going to the dental school’s endowment.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2023
• The school will now use that endowment land and money to build the research dairy.
  — Keith Ridler, ajc, 20 Sep. 2022
• When the house is sold or transferred … the deposit money comes back to the endowment account for others to use.
  — Joshua Bowling, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2022
• Even with the drop-off, the university still has an endowment of $50.9 billion, among the highest in the country.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 15 Oct. 2022
• The same thing goes for all children, of course, whatever their endowments.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• The funds will help to expand programming and to shore up the museum’s endowment.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2023
• By the end of his tenure, the school’s endowment had quadrupled, growing from $5 million to $20 million.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
• As the anti-apartheid campaign has shown, abuses that appear far and hard to reach can be as near and dear as the school endowment and stock holdings.
  — WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022
• Xiong’s family has set up an endowment fund in his name.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 22 Jan. 2024
• Places like the Getty and the Met, with multibillion-dollar endowments, are worthy but not needy, though the Met is worthy only part of the time.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 22 June 2023
• About a dozen pension funds and endowments have gotten back to me over the past couple days regarding ByteDance.
  — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 9 May 2024
• The Next Stage Fund is a new endowment program based on the idea of designating money to the theater in patrons’ wills.
  — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2024
• No college with an endowment greater than $1 billion has endorsed the campaign, noted the Times.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• Or, the institution may even sell the work to build endowment or scholarship funds.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 June 2022
• Its endowment, battered by the market in recent years, stands at around $125 million.
  — Malcolm Gay, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
• Harvard agreed to discuss with students its endowment and their questions about its connections to the war in Gaza.
  — Vimal Patel, New York Times, 17 May 2024
• He was asked him to stay on in a diminished role, and Rosenberg agreed, taking on fundraising, the AHM endowment program, and writing grants.
  — Melanie Savage, Hartford Courant, 5 Jan. 2023
• Despite having an endowment the size of a small country, no amount of money is ever enough.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 11 Apr. 2023
• That’s when the endowment enlisted Abelaye-Mateo to help the group identify its purpose and commit to it.
  — Sabrina Bodon, Sacramento Bee, 30 May 2024
• Columbia University, a focal point for the protests, has one of the largest school endowments in the nation at more than $13 billion.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2024
• Our school’s 5 billion dollar endowment will no longer be used to fuel the climate crisis.
  — Alicia Colomer, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2023
• The proceeds were put toward the opera company's once-meager endowment, which was then named for Casey's late husband.
  — Harrison Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2022
• The proceeds were put toward the opera company’s once-meager endowment, which was then named for Mrs. Casey’s late husband.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022
• The Duke Mansion board set a goal of $5 million to build up its endowment and cover capital improvements to the garden.
  — Emily Hedrick, Charlotte Observer, 1 Feb. 2024
• All of this is, of course, not unlike how Latter-day Saints understand baptism or the temple endowment.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Oct. 2022
• An endowment of more than $14 billion allows for this kind of policy.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 22 Sep. 2022
• Yet consultants like Cambridge, hired by endowments to decide which funds to invest in, send the lion’s share of their venture dollars to coastal VCs.
  — Kathleen Gallagher, Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2024
• That’s even as schools’ investment levels and support from their endowments was relatively steady.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 7 July 2024

Last Updated: 21 Sep 2024