How to Use paternity test in a Sentence

paternity test

noun
  • Might someone of him just want to skip a paternity test and move on?
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 July 2021
  • When the paternity test results came back, the answer was the same.
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2014
  • Jack gets home from seeing Brady to find Mel still focused on the paternity test.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 20 July 2022
  • His doubts about being the father of their newborn daughter, Dream, led to a paternity test that was filmed for the show.
    Rasha Ali, USA TODAY, 2 May 2022
  • The girl became pregnant, and a paternity test later confirmed Scott was the father of the child.
    al, 4 Feb. 2022
  • There have been no updates in that case since December, when a judge ruled Jones must take a paternity test.
    Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Ashley darts from the studio after the paternity test revealed Ariza is not the father of her son.
    Marianne Garvey, CNN, 18 Nov. 2021
  • At the time of her birth, Pulliam and Hartwell were in the midst of a tumultuous divorce, with Hartwell requesting a paternity test.
    Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2023
  • He is presumed to be the baby's father, though he is not named on the birth certificate and has not been given a paternity test.
    Meg Kissinger and Steve Schultze, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Anonymous: Please do not present your future mother-in-law with a paternity test.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 11 May 2022
  • According to Page Six, Mucci Mane, who is in the midst of a nasty divorce, is demanding a paternity test.
    Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Jane denies Mary Louise’s request for a paternity test, but does humour her with a coffee date.
    Morgan Baila, refinery29.com, 24 June 2019
  • Ware and Dunbar had planned to meet up that evening so Ware could take a paternity test, Dunbar’s godmother told police.
    Jared Gilmour, miamiherald, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The episode even went so far as to feature both a paternity test and a lie detector test to get to the bottom of Ariza and Ashley's relationship troubles.
    Dan Heching, PEOPLE.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • So all of that definitely isn't going to make Mel and Jack's paternity test conflict any worse.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 20 July 2022
  • Along with denying the report about the paternity test, the reality star also shared a sweet photo of his baby girl.
    Mariah Haas, PEOPLE.com, 9 May 2018
  • In December, a Dallas judge ordered Jones to take a paternity test.
    Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Dunbar was taking Ware to get a paternity test, her grandmother told the station.
    Harriet Sokmensuer, PEOPLE.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The other man who was ordered Monday to take a paternity test was present in juvenile court with his attorney, sources said.
    Amanda Marrazzo, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2019
  • The two celebrated with an overnight stay made even more special by the reveal the next morning that the paternity test results were in and Jack, not Mark, is the father of Mel's unborn baby.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 23 July 2022
  • The father of a girl born to the Crystal Lake woman accused in the beating death of her son is not the same man who is father of the dead son, according to results of a paternity test revealed Monday in court.
    Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • The story featured a woman who purchased an at-home paternity test at a local pharmacy and went online to get the results.
    Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, 9 July 2022
  • Results for a paternity test were still pending, according to the report.
    Nicole Darrah, Fox News, 25 June 2018
  • The paternity test is in — and so is Tristan Thompson’s apology to Khloé Kardashian.
    Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Sorenson Genomics began selling a paternity test through Rite Aid stores in late 2007.
    Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 12 May 2010
  • With the paternity test complete, the focus can shift to the father's child support obligations, Lancaster said.
    Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The rapper is reportedly willing to take care of the child in question if a paternity test returns back positive.
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2017
  • After requesting a paternity test for the newborn, Thompson confirmed that the baby was his the following month.
    Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The paternity test came about after Nichols filed a paternity suit against Thompson in Los Angeles last year.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The question looms large over the Netflix series' fourth season, with Jack initially extremely reluctant to take a paternity test and get an answer once and for all.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 21 July 2022

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