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
  • Howard had visitation rights with the girls.
    — Sarah Dahlberg, NBC news, 10 May 2026
  • Paul was granted up to eight hours a week of visitation.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • People poured in for the visitation and stayed for the service.
    — Ann Patchett, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • And a lot of that visitation is packed into a few months of the peak warm weather season.
    — Forrest Brown, CNN, 20 Feb. 2022
  • But in between, there was a visitation by Adler’s ghost.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The case was settled and he was allowed to retain visitation for his son.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • And for mothers who have lost custody or visitation of their children, the new law comes too late.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 22 May 2021
  • Some were denied visitations and phone calls.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
  • Here sounding like a deathbed plea shot through with visitations from the angel of mercy.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Laura’s mother has visitation with her only one day a week for four hours.
    — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 1 Dec. 2025
  • There will be no greeting of the family, but a walk-thru visitation.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 7 Dec. 2020
  • This led to a 28-day lockdown in which inmates lost all visitation rights.
    — Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, 24 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • Mine tours start roughly every half hour during peak visitation times.
    — Zach Wichter, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Wellness drives longer stays, higher spend per guest and stronger repeat visitation.
    — Amy Francombe, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2025
  • After all, the refuge is open to public visitation for only a few days per week and for only a few months of the year.
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 18 June 2026
  • Once a week, the kids had supervised visitation with their parents.
    — Jayme Fraser, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Family visitation would be a huge plus for Combs.
    — Janelle Ash , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • After the visitation, Nixon helped close the casket, then pushed it out of the room and down a hallway.
    — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 May 2020
  • His funeral service and visitation will be held this week.
    — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Let the mind be, along with countless other things, a landing strip for sacred visitations.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Visitation has now downed the second- and third-seeded teams in the Class 2A field.
    — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 4 June 2026
  • Most who’d come for the first of two days of the public visitation were Black, but people of all races and ages gathered.
    — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 26 Feb. 2026

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