Visitation

//ˌvɪzɪˈteɪʃən//

"Visitation" in a Sentence (8 examples)

On the inquest it was shown that Buck Fanshaw, in the delirium of a wasting typhoid fever, had taken arsenic, shot himself through the body, cut his throat, and jumped out of a four-story window and broken his neck—and after due deliberation, the jury, sad and tearful, but with intelligence unblinded by its sorrow, brought in a verdict of death "by the visitation of God." What could the world do without juries?

Sami was granted one hour of visitation with the children.

Sami arrived for his visitation day.

Tom got visitation rights.

Unwed couples deserve visitation rights just as much as married ones do.

Existing visitor facilities for both frontcountry areas experience crowding during the summer season, when the park receives most of its visitation, […]

Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]

But when the blow comes down in the fulness of expectation; when the bough is smitten while green, and the flower cut down in its spring; when the young and lovely perish, while the eyes, full of light, were fixed on the future,—then, indeed, is the visitation heavy to bear.

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