How to Use establishment in a Sentence

establishment

noun
  • His novels were disliked by the literary establishment.
  • In lawns, take care not to mow too low, as this opens the canopy to seed establishment.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Remove the tarp at the first signs of establishment and growth.
    — oregonlive, 7 May 2022
  • This is how the defense establishment will work and this is how the IDF will work.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 9 May 2024
  • The two were there to tour the English city and stopped at local establishments along the way.
    — Brittany Natale, Redbook, 5 May 2023
  • The league’s job as the first port of call in the sale process is to vet the buyers, who all hail from the U.S. or U.K. business establishment.
    — David Dawkins, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • That has changed this year with the establishment of a Food Pavilion.
    — Trevor Clawson, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The Pynk is an establishment like all the other ones around us.
    — Veronica Wells, Essence, 13 June 2022
  • In three weeks, a young man shunned by the establishment will be watching over it.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2022
  • The chain’s last establishment closed its doors in 1991.
    — Sergio Carmona, Sun Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2022
  • These are the 50 establishments in the United States that excite us most right now.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • These are the 50 establishments in the United States that excite us most right now.
    — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Lastly, strollers of any kind are banned from the establishment.
    — Jason Gonzalez, The Courier-Journal, 13 July 2022
  • And in the case of food establishments, like most sports, the first line of defense are the players in the game, which are the industry that produces the products.
    — USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2024
  • That’s because the soccer establishment did its best to bury it.
    — Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2024
  • No one in that establishment would talk about her, but their silence said enough.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2022
  • There are more of us taxpayers than there are more of them, the Montgomery establishment.
    — al, 19 June 2022
  • Some have deeds to their land from before the modern establishment of Israel in 1948.
    — Raja Abdulrahim, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2022
  • The Thirsty Turtle has remained a smoking establishment, one of few in Huntsville these days.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Both teams have played in every World Cup since its establishment in 1991.
    — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Any establishment that offers a free glass of prosecco while waiting for your seat is top-notch in my book, but the food sealed the deal.
    — Lauren Breedlove, Travel + Leisure, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Video surfaced online that April of Miller appearing to grab a woman by the throat and throwing her to the ground at the establishment.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Since the group’s establishment in 2022, it has never been fully staffed.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2024
  • Strings, bless his heart, wouldn’t have charged that kind of money at his establishment, no matter who was working the counter.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Trump’s affection for LIV can be traced, at least in part, to years of friction with golf’s establishment.
    — Alan Blinder Doug Mills, New York Times, 25 May 2023
  • Wyoming defeat is a win for Trump and a decisive blow to the fading GOP establishment.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Some of the local anchor establishments along The Strip have vanished.
    — Molly Parker, ProPublica, 27 Mar. 2025
  • It may not be located in the most obvious part of town for a high end establishment, but perhaps that’s what give this the edge.
    — Paul Caputo, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Many of them duck into his establishment before or after shows for food, drink and atmosphere.
    — Annika Merrilees, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2025
  • Or she was goaded into it by Harry, who clearly was eager to unload on the royal establishment.
    — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 18 June 2025

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