How to Use visitation in a Sentence

visitation

noun
  • He has visitation rights on the weekends.
  • And a lot of that visitation is packed into a few months of the peak warm weather season.
    Forrest Brown, CNN, 20 Feb. 2022
  • The line to greet the family at the visitation stretched down three long halls and out of Jubilee Baptist Church in Daphne.
    Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 30 Jan. 2022
  • That’s six months that a person can be held without having the right to visitation by a lawyer.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Special events and peak visitation times could cause prices to change.
    The Indianapolis Star, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The case was settled and he was allowed to retain visitation for his son.
    Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Nobody likes seeing trash in our parks and green spaces, but places that get a lot of visitation often get a lot of garbage too.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Early in editing, the scene’s place still wasn’t yet clear; at one stage, the visitation was the final scene, leaving out the prison-yard denouement.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The next year, Brink filed for divorce, and Voepel was given full custody of their child, with no visitation rights granted to Brink.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Behind it was a church, a visitation room, an infirmary, and the market.
    Brittney Griner, TIME, 3 May 2024
  • The 27-year-old had taken their daughter to Allison's house in Muncie, Indiana, on the day of her death for visitation.
    Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The girl is writing a letter to her brother, and the visitation, the Kid, the Thalidomide Kid, her frightful familiar, is taunting her.
    Joy Williams, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
  • Of course, the most worrisome visitation was AI, a threat to the very personhood of the talent that may well warrant the most apocalyptic of alarums.
    Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2023
  • When the big gangster family arrives for the visitation, the team recognizes Reinhardt's nephew as the man who escaped from the bunker.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2022
  • In response, the park service built a tall chain-link fence topped with overhanging barbed wire, closing the site to future visitation.
    Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Oct. 2022
  • As guests traverse the deathly maze, these monsters seek vengeance for the opening of their resting place to public visitation.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 July 2023
  • In the absence of easy visitation, mail and phone calls are often key to maintaining a strong connection.
    Sanya Mansoor, Time, 20 July 2023
  • Gary likened the visitation space to a traditional circus tent, with a domed cage to keep the lions inside—observed from above by tamers, or guards.
    Katie Herchenroeder, The New Republic, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Tourism officials are expecting a huge increase in visitation to the sites in the coming years.
    Susan Glaser, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Summer months in the park see its fair share of visitation, so consider camping just outside the park, at Big Creek Campground.
    Outside Online, 14 Nov. 2022
  • More than 20 people visited the family within the first hour of the visitation, which was slated to last eight hours.
    Wilborn Nobles, ajc, 22 Dec. 2021
  • For instance, courts have been able to restrict visitation rights if a parent lives with a partner who is deemed unsafe for the child, Rebouché said.
    Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The next year, Brink filed for divorce, in which Laura Voepel was given full custody of their child with no visitation rights granted to Brink.
    Wire Reports, oregonlive, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Hundreds of mourners are expected to turn out for the visitation.
    Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 6 July 2022
  • Bobby calls for a suspension of the visitations in order to give his daughter time to rest and recover.
    Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The goal is actually to start an impact campaign around one of the issues that the girls shared with us (while filming) which was about visitation practices.
    Addie Morfoot, Variety, 21 Jan. 2024
  • The new custody arrangement will see Portwood having overnight visitation for the first time since 2019.
    Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE.com, 28 July 2022
  • Characters tend to appear fully formed to Strout, a visitation, and keep returning to her, as if to say, Surely, you are not done with me yet.
    Karen Heller, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The prosecution has argued that Ashley Benefield had one goal: to be a single mother and to prevent the father of her child from having visitation.
    Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024
  • The two battled for visitation rights before Doug was granted visitation with his daughter in July of 2018.
    Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 31 July 2024

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