How to Use domestic partner in a Sentence

domestic partner

noun
  • That suit helped lead the city to extend health benefits to domestic partners in 1994.
    Neil Genzlinger, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2018
  • Last year, 28 women died in Harris County at the hands of their domestic partners.
    St. John Barned-Smith, Houston Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2017
  • You and your spouse should do everything possible to get to know the domestic partner.
    Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2018
  • Okon used his domestic partner's vehicle to drive to JFK and pick up the bag of cash from Thorpe, according to the complaint.
    Taylor Romine and Rob Frehse, CNN, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Ask about the maximum amount the policy will pay out and if the benefits can be shared by a domestic partner or spouse.
    Jordan Rau, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Last year, 25 women in Israel were killed by their domestic partner or someone close to them.
    Yardena Schwartz, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Hugh Grant has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo as Benoit Blanc's domestic partner during a brief scene showing the detective's apartment.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2022
  • For the older attackers, spouses or domestic partners were the most likely to spot them.
    Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Or maybe the bullet will come from a gun wielded by a domestic partner — usually a man — who conflates love with control and abuse.
    Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The father and his domestic partner were arrested after a 6-year-old boy died Friday in Salem.
    oregonlive, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Another challenge is to find the companies to cover that part of the budget that has to be covered by domestic partners.
    Andrew Das, New York Times, 24 May 2023
  • My domestic partner has been a contractor at my 50-person workplace for a year.
    Karla L. Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Note who is not included in this list: the decedent’s domestic partner; best friend; or the person to whom the decedent gave verbal instructions.
    Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 10 Apr. 2020
  • The expansive bill would cover the death of a spouse, domestic partner, child, parent, in-law, grandparent or grandchild.
    Andrew O'Reilly, Fox News, 7 Aug. 2018
  • Last month, two men became the city's first couple to sign up to use the city's domestic partner registry, which paves the way for companies to offer benefits to gay couples.
    Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Chen, Schechinger and Burnley Jr. are part of a collection of folks who just got the first city ordinance passed in Somerville allowing people to have more than one domestic partner.
    Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Larry Millete checks all the boxes for domestic partner abuse.
    CBS News, 19 Feb. 2022
  • Employees can take the leave in chunks that are at minimum two weeks to care for an ill spouse, domestic partner, parent or stepparent, or 18-and-under child or stepchild.
    Fortune, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Dragged to Beirut by a domestic partner’s job posting there in 2015, Kelly learned Arabic and grew close to some of the film’s subjects, who eventually asked him to document their lives.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Five Star status comes with perks like free upgrades, bonus points and no additional driver fee for your spouse or domestic partner.
    cleveland, 13 Feb. 2022
  • His domestic partner, Rabab Diab, could not swim but survived when a nearby fisherman threw her a life preserver.
    Susan Scutti, CNN, 18 July 2019
  • The domestic partner of the man who allegedly shot five of his neighbors to death has been apprehended by Texas authorities.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 4 May 2023
  • Relatives or domestic partners were responsible for 40% of the women killed in the workplace.
    Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The list includes spouses or domestic partners, siblings, adult children and grandchildren, parents, and an adult relative or close friend — in many cases, the people who brought in the patient for care in the first place.
    Mark Kreidler, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The cause was hypertension and diabetes, said his domestic partner, Lloyce West.
    Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Kellyanne, torn between a domestic partner and a professional one.
    Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2019
  • It was owned by Hudson and previously by her now-deceased domestic partner.
    Larry Barszewski, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Dennis is survived by his domestic partner and husband, Shawn C. Newman.
    sun-sentinel.com, 8 July 2019
  • Brittany Hall and her domestic partner, Celeste Owens, were each arrested on multiple charges before Amari’s body was found.
    Henri Hollis, ajc, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The names of former and current employers, children and spouses and domestic partners could also have been downloaded.
    WSJ, 22 June 2023

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