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.
  • By the mid-1980s, grants from the foundation were once again on the rise, as was the endowment.
    — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • The largest share of the new funds, $30 million, will go to the school’s endowment and restricted funds.
    — Graydon Megan, chicagotribune.com, 7 Dec. 2021
  • That gain brought the endowment’s value to $37.7 billion at the time.
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Part of the money — $40 million — will be added to its endowment.
    — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Dec. 2021
  • For him, long-term, endowment like thinking is the key to success.
    — Paul Westall, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The money has been pulled from a $1.7 million fund, which is set to grow at the rate of the seminary’s large endowment.
    — New York Times, 31 May 2021
  • Some of that wealth has been set aside in an endowment fund which totals about $2.3 billion.
    — Yamil Berard, ajc, 19 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • The Met, of all places, with an endowment north of $4 billion and a bevy of billionaires among its trustees, is crying poor.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 4 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • Funds from the sale will go towards growing the Whitney’s endowment.
    — Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The same thing goes for all children, of course, whatever their endowments.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Donations can be made to an endowment fund or to a current use fund.
    — courant.com, 2 July 2021
  • 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
  • Much of the gift will go to the endowment but a large part, in a sign of the times, will also help the orchestra upgrade its video technology.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 26 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • Small schools with small endowments Florida A&M is not the first school to receive a pitch from Gerami.
    — James Pollard, Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 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
  • That’s about equal to the endowment for the University of Minnesota alone.
    — NBC News, 15 July 2021
  • That's about equal to the endowment for the University of Minnesota alone.
    — Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, Star Tribune, 14 July 2021
  • Some schools rely on endowments to cover financial aid to students.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The library now needs to build out the new Canadian entrance to code — a blow to a not-for-profit organization that has existed on a limited endowment since 1908.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2025

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