How to Use domestic in a Sentence
- The company hopes to attract both foreign and domestic investors.
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The movie came out in March, and made history as the biggest domestic opening for a sports film.
—Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 7 Dec. 2023
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At Claud, domestic country ham is served with sunchokes and red-eye mayo.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 2 June 2023
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The restaurant also serves burgers, wings and pizza, as well as a menu of craft and domestic beers, liquor and cocktails.
—Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2024
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In the early days of lockdown, all suspense was domestic.
—Lisa Levy, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
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Lavoie notes that firms, in a survey, now cite weak domestic demand as the biggest headwind for sales growth.
—Wsj Pro, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2024
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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
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Jonathan Majors will face a trial on domestic abuse charges after a New York judge denied the motion to dismiss the case.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 25 Oct. 2023
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So there was no space for kids or domestic activities — a family wasn’t in the cards.
—Joanna Calo, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
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Would domestic investments need to spread among all 50 states?
—Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 16 July 2023
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That being said, unpredictable risks, from the outcome of domestic elections to the impact of foreign wars, could still rear their head.
—Will Daniel, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2024
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The film made its U.S. debut on Dec. 1, topping the domestic box office in its first weekend and earning acclaim from critics and fans alike.
—Kyle Denis, Billboard, 22 Dec. 2023
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Next week, the Supreme Court will hear the case of a Texan who challenged the seizure of his weapons in 2020 after being placed under a restraining order for domestic abuse.
—Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2023
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Watch him skulk around in scenes of domestic opulence below.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 29 Nov. 2023
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Bob Marley: One Love is thriving for the second week in a row after jamming its way to No. 1 with a domestic intake of $13.5 million.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 25 Feb. 2024
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Cruise ports will also be jam packed, as domestic cruise bookings are expected to soar 50% compared to last year.
—Chris Morris, Fortune, 15 May 2023
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The assets and funds explicitly cannot be transferred to them, the agreement ordered, and will stay in domestic control.
—Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 18 June 2023
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The lack of an effective domestic wealth tax is another.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2023
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The crop is sold for flour on the domestic market and exported in large quantities to Latin America, among other places.
—Mitch Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
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George — pulled out of domestic bliss and precarious sobriety — seethes in a frilly taupe tuxedo that is, in fact, a mélange of natural silk and polyester.
—Fawnia Soo Hoo, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2023
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Both have had major stadium runs this year, with tours that have taken them to overseas markets as well as domestic shows.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2023
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But the reasons are mostly tied to domestic politics and have less to do with how Israel’s military is waging war in Gaza.
—William Booth, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
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The most recent fatal crash of a domestic commercial jetliner was in 2009.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
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The loss is particularly bitter for Rapinoe, who plans to retire at the end of the domestic season in November.
—Tori Otten, The New Republic, 7 Aug. 2023
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Prior to the split, Dai was president of Alibaba’s core domestic e-commerce.
—Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 20 Dec. 2023
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There are some last-minute deals on domestic flights, Hopper found, but international fares are their highest in more than five years, with prices to Europe up 50% from a year ago.
—David Koenig The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 27 May 2023
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For Biden, the deal avoids the headache of another debt ceiling debate this term, while staving off Republican demands for steep cuts to domestic spending.
—Marianna Sotomayor, Paul Kane, Julian Mark and Meryl Kornfield, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 30 May 2023
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The average number of daily domestic arrivals for August so far is down 45% from last year, according to the same state data.
—Julia Wick, Jaweed Kaleem, Christopher Reynolds and Emerson Drewes, Los Angeles Times, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Sep. 2023
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There wasn’t much rehearsal; the idea was not to perform scenes so much as to enact the Hösses’ everyday domestic rituals in something close to real time.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2023
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Court records showed he was also arrested in Las Vegas in 2014 on charges that include domestic battery and stalking.
—Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
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The growth of its domestic over the top business is robust.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2020
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My grandparents were all domestics, and there's no shame in that.
—Essence.com, 30 Oct. 2017
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The few larger parts that came their way were invariably those of domestics.
—New York Times, 4 Oct. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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The rub was that Gamgort saw no way his domestic can suppliers could possibly make enough of them.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2020
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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
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Her father was an oil field worker, her mother a domestic.
—Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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One of those wily, devoted domestics who greases the gears, Dubois has conspired to secure Dorante a position in Araminte’s household.
—Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 13 July 2017
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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
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The art monster—in context, a female fantasy of what male artists are permitted to be—resists the petty pull of the domestic for the snarling single-mindedness of creative commitment.
—Joanna Scutts, The New Republic, 20 June 2022
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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
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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
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The Millennial tendency to dabble in the domestic is now, essentially, many people’s full-time job.
—Angela Lashbrook, refinery29.com, 12 Jan. 2021
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And domestics wearing upper-class castoffs, especially young and pretty ones, led to embarrassing mix-ups.
—Shelley Puhak, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2017
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He’s been raised by his stoic, aloof father, his fiercely protective and eminently capable sister, and a flock of loving domestics, but hasn’t heard from his mother since.
—BostonGlobe.com, 20 Sep. 2019
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This Focus Features release will look to stir up some deserved attention commercially and creatively upon its mid-April domestic release.
—Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2020
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Small, isolated groups of Oriental domestics gradually acquired distinctive coat colors and other mutations through a process known as genetic drift, in which traits that are neither beneficial nor maladaptive become fixed in a population.
—Andrew C. Kitchener, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
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Most black Southerners were initially barred from receiving Social Security, for example, because farmworkers and domestics were not included.
—Eric Schickler, Vox, 21 Apr. 2018
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Yet many domestics appear basically indistinguishable from wildcats.
—Jonathan Losos, Fortune Well, 5 Aug. 2023
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The growth of its domestic over the top business is robust.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2020
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My grandparents were all domestics, and there's no shame in that.
—Essence.com, 30 Oct. 2017
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The few larger parts that came their way were invariably those of domestics.
—New York Times, 4 Oct. 2019
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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
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