How to Use custody battle in a Sentence

custody battle

noun
  • That brings us back to the custody battle over Kyra.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Grimes is locked in a custody battle with the richest man in the world.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024
  • That was followed by a custody battle in court.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Imagine the custody battle with that man!
    — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Kehlani is fighting back in court amid a custody battle with her former partner.
    — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Fuller claimed at sentencing that the killing had nothing to do with the custody battle.
    — Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • This custody battle dragged on for months, with the woman giving birth in the middle of it all.
    — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Since then, their split and subsequent custody battle have played out in the media.
    — Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2023
  • So while those twin things are happening, the custody battle is also going to heat up.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 20 May 2026
  • She and Fotis were embroiled in a nasty divorce and custody battle at the time.
    — Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Should the fact that they were embroiled in a custody battle during her lifetime matter?
    — Benny Roshan, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Jaime King and Kyle Newman's custody battle has come to an end.
    — Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Bridges and Randle had been embroiled in a bitter child custody battle.
    — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The former couple had a contentious split and custody battle over their children.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Rutherford and Giersch would embark on a six-year-long custody battle.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The pair split in 2016 but were locked in a custody battle that only ended with his death.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Musk and Grimes would go on to welcome a third child the following year but have since waged a custody battle over all three.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The most likely motive was a custody battle (31%).
    — Andrea Lucia, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Lala Kent says the custody battle over her daughter Ocean has finally come to an end.
    — Hannah Sacks, People.com, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Her neighbor, Jamie, wants his own life as a single dad after the end of a bruising custody battle.
    — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025
  • At the time, the two were involved in contentious divorce proceedings and a custody battle.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Over the next few years, the couple, who had four children together, had a contentious custody battle.
    — Amber Gaudet updated February 20, Charlotte Observer, 20 Feb. 2026
  • At the time, Carter and Markowski were locked in a contentious divorce and custody battle.
    — Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The killing came at the end of a yearslong custody battle of Fuller and Timmons' three young children.
    — Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • After a custody battle, he was returned to his father in Cuba.
    — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Prosecutors in that case say the father of her children shot her after a custody battle.
    — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The future of both franchises, as well as Paul’s custody battle, remain in flux.
    — Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • But as the custody battle raged on, Spears turned to Wasser again in 2008.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The filings late last month came amid the couple’s divorce proceedings and a custody battle over their two young children.
    — Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
  • The closest Alex and Tess get to a custody battle is a halfhearted chat about who gets the armoire.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2025

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