How to Use domestic partner in a Sentence

domestic partner

noun
  • If a parent wants their domestic partners to pick up their child at school, these protections allow that.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
  • For the older attackers, spouses or domestic partners were the most likely to spot them.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Despite the crime drop, rapes, lead by a surge in attacks by victims’ domestic partners, were up 19% last year.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Ask about the maximum amount the policy will pay out and if the benefits can be shared by a domestic partner or spouse.
    — Jordan Rau, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Larry Millete checks all the boxes for domestic partner abuse.
    — CBS News, 19 Feb. 2022
  • My domestic partner has been a contractor at my 50-person workplace for a year.
    — Karla L. Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Last year, 25 women in Israel were killed by their domestic partner or someone close to them.
    — Yardena Schwartz, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Or maybe the bullet will come from a gun wielded by a domestic partner — usually a man — who conflates love with control and abuse.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
  • That suit helped lead the city to extend health benefits to domestic partners in 1994.
    — Neil Genzlinger, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2018
  • Kellyanne, torn between a domestic partner and a professional one.
    — Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Another challenge is to find the companies to cover that part of the budget that has to be covered by domestic partners.
    — Andrew Das, New York Times, 24 May 2023
  • Last year, 28 women died in Harris County at the hands of their domestic partners.
    — St. John Barned-Smith, Houston Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Five Star status comes with perks like free upgrades, bonus points and no additional driver fee for your spouse or domestic partner.
    — cleveland, 13 Feb. 2022
  • The expansive bill would cover the death of a spouse, domestic partner, child, parent, in-law, grandparent or grandchild.
    — Andrew O'Reilly, Fox News, 7 Aug. 2018
  • The father and his domestic partner were arrested after a 6-year-old boy died Friday in Salem.
    — oregonlive, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Pitt and Jolie were domestic partners for ten years before finally tying the knot in 2014.
    — Joseph Galizia, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
  • His domestic partner, Rabab Diab, could not swim but survived when a nearby fisherman threw her a life preserver.
    — Susan Scutti, CNN, 18 July 2019
  • Last month, two men became the city's first couple to sign up to use the city's domestic partner registry, which paves the way for companies to offer benefits to gay couples.
    — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The bar was built by her domestic partner, local artist and musician Diego Florez-Arroyo.
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The cause was hypertension and diabetes, said his domestic partner, Lloyce West.
    — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The domestic partner of the man who allegedly shot five of his neighbors to death has been apprehended by Texas authorities.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 4 May 2023
  • Relatives or domestic partners were responsible for 40% of the women killed in the workplace.
    — Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Hugh Grant has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo as Benoit Blanc's domestic partner during a brief scene showing the detective's apartment.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Employees can take the leave in chunks that are at minimum two weeks to care for an ill spouse, domestic partner, parent or stepparent, or 18-and-under child or stepchild.
    — Fortune, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Okon used his domestic partner's vehicle to drive to JFK and pick up the bag of cash from Thorpe, according to the complaint.
    — Taylor Romine and Rob Frehse, CNN, 30 Sep. 2019
  • According to police, the teen is believed to have stayed with Gress and his domestic partner, 37-year-old Michelle Brandes, at the home.
    — Lucia Suarez Sang, CBS News, 9 Mar. 2025
  • The list includes spouses or domestic partners, siblings, adult children and grandchildren, parents, and an adult relative or close friend — in many cases, the people who brought in the patient for care in the first place.
    — Mark Kreidler, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Mitchell at the time was a recent domestic partner of Burnett’s, the State’s Attorney’s Office indicated.
    — Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
  • In June 2022, a woman who had lived with Milstead as his domestic partner filed and was granted an order of protection against Milstead, citing fears for her and her children.
    — Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2024
  • Police believe that the teen, who was a frequent runaway and the mother to an 11-month-old baby, was staying at the home with Gress and his domestic partner, 37-year-old Michelle Brandes.
    — Julia Bonavita, Fox News, 15 Mar. 2025

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