How to Use visitation in a Sentence

visitation

noun
  • He has visitation rights on the weekends.
  • Chairs were set up to form lines for the visitation, and there was blue tape on the floor.
    — cincinnati.com, 10 Dec. 2020
  • 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 | [email protected], 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
  • And for mothers who have lost custody or visitation of their children, the new law comes too late.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 22 May 2021
  • The case was settled and he was allowed to retain visitation for his son.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
  • This led to a 28-day lockdown in which inmates lost all visitation rights.
    — Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, 24 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • Despite the meal refusals, Rose said Smith did eat a bag of potato chips and had one Coke to drink during his visitation.
    — Tandra Smith | [email protected], al, 12 Feb. 2021
  • There will be no greeting of the family, but a walk-thru visitation.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 7 Dec. 2020
  • There has been a lot of press in the past week about the layoffs at national parks and the potential impacts on visitation this year.
    — Will McGough, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
  • There was no big last-minute surge before the visitation ended at 6 a.m.
    — Audra Melton, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Broderick still had visitation rights to the couple's son for one weekend a month from noon to 4 p.m.
    — Ryan Autullo, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • King, for her part, has visitation rights with her sons and can see them three times per week, with supervised visits.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
  • That would lead to visitation restrictions, the groups said.
    — Amy Beth Hansen, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The visitation and service were closed to the media and graveside services were private.
    — Mj Slaby, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • Because most of the island is covered in a huge ice sheet, only the coastal areas are open to normal visitation.
    — Joe Yogerst, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Behind it was a church, a visitation room, an infirmary, and the market.
    — Brittney Griner, TIME, 3 May 2024
  • During the same years, visitation grew from 4.2 million to 5.2 million.
    — Erin Alberty, Axios, 5 Mar. 2025
  • After years of petitioning, the Markel Act was passed in Florida to give grandparents more visitation rights in the state.
    — Emily Krauser, People.com, 23 Mar. 2025

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