How to Use visitation in a Sentence

visitation

noun
  • He has visitation rights on the weekends.
  • But the increase in visitation came too late for the campgrounds in the CNNF.
    Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2021
  • 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 second, a visitation for friends, was planned for July 18 at Laube Hall in Freeport.
    Michael Sisak, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 July 2024
  • 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
  • Daniel strode out to the visitation area and into his mother’s arms.
    Nedra Rhone, ajc, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The case was settled and he was allowed to retain visitation for his son.
    Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Although the park has seen its fastest growth to visitation in the last decade, this growth has not been completely linear.
    Leo Wolfson, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Here sounding like a deathbed plea shot through with visitations from the angel of mercy.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Video call costs including for visitations will be capped for the first time, at 11 to 25 cents a minute, less than a quarter of current prices.
    Reuters, NBC News, 18 July 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
  • In the days before his execution, his was joined by his father, his sister and his two sons in the prison visitation room.
    Abigail Brooks, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • School visitations are a good way to get a glimpse of what’s going on in the schools, and being open to discussions with parents is important.
    Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • The arrest this year came two days after Johnson had his parental visitation rights restored in court.
    William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 17 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • This year’s price is on the high end because the pass is debuting during a peak visitation period, Halloween Time and the holidays.
    Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2024

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