Examples of “visitation” in a Sentence

noun An official or formal visit, especially for inspection.

• The inspector's yearly visitation to the school made the teachers nervous.
• A formal visitation by the health board checked every ward in the hospital.
• The bishop's visitation to the parish was announced weeks in advance.

noun A scheduled visit with a child by a parent who does not have full custody.

• The judge set up regular visitation so the father could see his daughter.
• She drove two hours each Saturday for her scheduled visitation with her son.
• Under the custody agreement, he gets visitation every other weekend.

noun A supernatural encounter, such as an appearance by a ghost or divine being.

• Villagers spoke of a ghostly visitation that haunted the old house each winter.
• The monk described a visitation by an angel during his evening prayers.
• She claimed to have had a visitation from her late father in a dream.