How to Use restitute in a Sentence

restitute

verb

• Any items that were found to have been looted would be restituted.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2018
• Works that had been confiscated by the Nazis and not restituted should be identified.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2018
• At the end of 1998, the Washington Conference tried to wrestle with the question of why so many assets seized from Jews during the Holocaust had never been restituted.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2018
• In March, the Orsay was also the first French museum to voluntarily restitute a painting looted by the Nazis.
  — Vincent Noce, CNN, 26 May 2021
• In each instance, a deal was struck: The work was either restituted to the Mosse heirs and then repurchased by the foundation or, based on a loan agreement, allowed to be kept on view with a placard indicating its provenance.
  — Berthold Steinhilber, Smithsonian, 24 May 2018
• Of the several hundred works that escaped the mobs and were subsequently found by invading Allied forces, just 54 have been restituted to the descendants of their original Jewish owners.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 24 July 2019
• Numerous artworks plundered by the Nazis have been properly restituted, but thousands more are unaccounted for—or are tied up in legal challenges.
  — Berthold Steinhilber, Smithsonian, 24 May 2018
• Meanwhile, other museums and private collectors, particularly in Germany, had agreed to restitute Glaser works sold at the two 1933 auctions.
  — Catherine Hickley, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2020

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