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
  • The endowment grew to $1.72 billion, the seventh-largest in the country at the time.
    — New York Times, 6 Oct. 2020
  • And that’s all if there’s enough money in the endowment to fund the program.
    — Laura Tillman, Hartford Courant, 31 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • With the influx of funds, the endowment grows to $53.5 million.
    — Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 28 May 2025
  • 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
  • Some of those goals have to do with our endowment and ticket sales.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Harvard has the largest endowment in the country—$53.2 billion at the end of the most recent fiscal year.
    — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Funds from the sale will be used to create a $54.5 million endowment for the care of the collection.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 2 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • 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.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 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
  • Those close to Brown say its approach allows the endowment to be nimble.
    — Juliet Chung and Dawn Lim, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2020
  • The bill has led to a great deal of talk about university endowments and their uses.
    — Gregory E. Sterling, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2025
  • 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
  • There’s a new excise tax on university endowments and a new tax on remittances, or transfers of money that people in the U.S. send abroad.
    — Kevin Freking, Twin Cities, 5 July 2025
  • The law increases the tax to 8% on the near-trillion dollars of bloated university endowments — money that was never taxed.
    — Stephen Moore, Boston Herald, 9 July 2025

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