How to Use domestic in a Sentence

domestic

1 of 2 adjective
  • The company hopes to attract both foreign and domestic investors.
  • Those ticket sales were enough for third place on domestic charts.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The pressure is on to find a domestic source.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 11 June 2026
  • Burma’s plight is not just a domestic tragedy but echoes across the globe.
    — Kim Aris, Time, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Noem is right that this was an act of domestic terrorism.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Next week, Scream 7 is poised to slash its way to the top of the domestic charts.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Feb. 2026
  • For Xi, the stakes are high, if painfully domestic.
    — Vivian Salama, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026
  • The stakes are not only domestic.
    — Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
  • About what’s been asked, the same goes for domestic oil exploration.
    — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Kelvin was shot and killed during a domestic dispute.
    — Andrew Callahan, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Twenty-ounce domestic drafts are $10 at most food stands.
    — Lori Punko, Denver Post, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Roll back domestic-content rules that waste tax dollars.
    — Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Handling sick or dead wild birds can spread the virus and pose risks to people, pets, and domestic flocks.
    — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 15 Feb. 2026
  • In the weeks leading up to its domestic release, some called for a boycott of the doc.
    — Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Leading the top-two domestic box office winners in the space of eight months?
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 9 Feb. 2026
  • How hard can a little domestic labor be?
    — Natalia Winkelman, Variety, 27 May 2026
  • Choose from a variety of wild Alaskan crab legs or domestic crab claws.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Completing all of these domestic chores has taken a toll on her.
    — Brian Anthony Hernandez, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Officers said they were called to the area for a domestic dispute.
    — Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2026
  • At Claud, domestic country ham is served with sunchokes and red-eye mayo.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 2 June 2023
  • One of the key points of contention was over domestic mass surveillance.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Ours defends the domestic leagues.
    — Asli Pelit, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • All others were domestic cities.
    — Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 26 Sep. 2025
  • And no, not domestic Georgia, folks.
    — Essence, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The anti-China shift has come with domestic costs.
    — Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
  • When facing problems from bullying to domestic abuse, few know what to do or where to go.
    — Takehiko Kambayashi, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Your domestic space should be evolving nicely.
    — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Gas prices would be at least $1 a gallon higher without the domestic drilling boom.
    — Stephen Moore, Boston Herald, 10 June 2026
  • That was the vibe—warm, domestic, generous.
    — Fab 5 Freddy, Vanity Fair, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Would domestic investments need to spread among all 50 states?
    — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 16 July 2023

domestic

2 of 2 noun
  • She got in a domestic with her husband.
  • My grandparents were all domestics, and there's no shame in that.
    — Essence.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • The few larger parts that came their way were invariably those of domestics.
    — New York Times, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Lopes’ mother, Mary Rose, worked as a domestic.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Benedict has vowed to find the disguised stranger who stole his heart, but he’s equally attracted to the domestic.
    — The Know, Denver Post, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Her mother was a domestic who was home only one day a week; her stepfather was a longshoreman.
    — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
  • The rub was that Gamgort saw no way his domestic can suppliers could possibly make enough of them.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Local newspaper reporters would travel with the team, dine with the team and sometimes have one too many cold domestics with the team.
    — Amos Barshad, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2018
  • In most novels domestics serve only to open and close doors, make meals or assist with the toilette of those who have attained true selfhood.
    — Chandrahas Choudhury, WSJ, 12 May 2017
  • The children were to grow up and benefit the lives of their masters, to work in kitchens, become domestics, to toil away in the mines and to farm the fields.
    — Tanya Talaga july 24, Literary Hub, 24 July 2025
  • There were several domestics, including the one where an 11-year-old girl was punched in the face by her father.
    — Todd Axtell, Twin Cities, 15 Jan. 2017
  • But to be fair, this phenomenon isn’t universal among domestics.
    — Byron Hurd, The Drive, 3 June 2026
  • Wild cats kill more animals than do domestics, but pet cats kill many more animals as do similarly-sized wild predators in a small area.
    — Jason G. Goldman, Scientific American, 29 Apr. 2020
  • His father was a steelworker and his mother a live-in domestic who saw Michals and his brother only on weekends.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 12 June 2026
  • Rather than cracking open a domestic from the grocery store, head to one of Franklin’s two local breweries to sample craft beers instead.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Rather than cracking open a domestic from the grocery store, head to one of Franklin’s two local breweries to sample craft beers instead.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2025
  • One of nine children, he was raised by his mother, Era, who supported the family by working as a domestic.
    — New York Times, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Women worked as domestics; men served as unskilled laborers, canal diggers and later as mill workers across the river.
    — Paula Kane, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Most came from working-class black women, mainly domestics, who made up nearly 70% of the bus ridership.
    — Kirsten West Savali, The Root, 8 Jan. 2018
  • The Beretta manages to look both overstyled and too plain inside, and all the domestics position the driver deep in the car behind a high cowl.
    — Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Of that, $40M is from the international box office, making for an even split with domestic.
    — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Auntie Sheila had arranged for Eileen to be sent to work as a domestic for a local farmer who had a gaggle of children and endless errands to be done.
    — Literary Hub, 8 May 2026
  • And domestics wearing upper-class castoffs, especially young and pretty ones, led to embarrassing mix-ups.
    — Shelley Puhak, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2017
  • His mother, Margaret, was a live-in domestic who saw Duane and his younger brother, Timothy, on the weekends.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 11 June 2026
  • Exotic woods like jatoba and tigerwood join the domestics of holly, walnut, birch and ash in details of the interior.
    — Anne Raup, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Sep. 2016
  • In these tales, the animal women are generally phenomenal domestics, and the plot usually goes one of two ways.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2017
  • New Lenox police said a second person, who tried to intervene in the domestic, was battered and taken to the hospital for their injuries.
    — Alicia Fabbre, chicagotribune.com, 20 Dec. 2021
  • But the flexibility of domestic as well as foreign customers is making gas production in the area more attractive to investors.
    — Lynn Cook, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017
  • The company also aims to reduce supply chain risks by keeping core manufacturing domestic.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Apr. 2026
  • In Florida, most art students go on to work for Disney World; Carly’s Chateau is a theme park scaled to the domestic.
    — Olivia Kan-Sperling, Artforum, 2 May 2026

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