How to Use civil union in a Sentence

civil union

noun

• The pope's civil union remarks have raised both hopes and doubts for gay Catholics.
  — NBC News, 23 Oct. 2020
• Brazil, like many countries, outlaws bigamy and polygamy but civil unions between more than two people are not unheard of there.
  — Dan Gartland, SI.com, 24 May 2018
• Tusk's government came to power with a promise to legalize civil unions for same-sex couples.
  — ABC News, 14 May 2026
• Tusk’s government came to power with a promise to legalize civil unions for same-sex couples.
  — Claudia Ciobanu, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
• Joint filing status is not available to couples in civil unions or domestic partnerships.
  — cleveland, 22 Mar. 2020
• One of the things that the administration was thinking of doing was making people who had civil unions dissolve them, so that would have taken some time.
  — Solcyré Burga, TIME, 17 May 2024
• After the anecdote ends, the film cuts to Francis' civil union comments in the Televisa interview.
  — Nicole Winfield, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2020
• Latvia could take a similar step in the next days or weeks, with its civil union bill only a vote away from being approved, providing the president doesn’t veto it.
  — Enrique Anarte Lazo, NBC News, 7 June 2022
• In 2012, a man and two women in Sao Paulo state became Brazil’s first three-person civil union.
  — Dan Gartland, SI.com, 24 May 2018
• That decree, signed by Francis, came even after he had been quoted in a documentary as advocating for civil union laws.
  — Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2023
• Religion was the reason my mother chose not to come to our 2001 civil union ceremony in Vermont.
  — Amber Leventry, Longreads, 29 June 2018
• But some Israelis bypass the restrictions by holding ceremonies of their choice and formalizing their civil union with lawyers, or by marrying abroad.
  — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2017
• While the country recognizes civil unions between gay and lesbian couples, entitling them to pension and inheritance rights, adoption of children is still not legal.
  — Helena Bachmann, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2020
• Previously, as Eddy explains in the Times, a person in a civil union was only allowed to adopt the biological child of his or her partner.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 3 Oct. 2017
• Since 2003, the Polish parliament has discussed legalizing civil unions at least five times—but each time, the proposals have foundered for want of government support.
  — Marta Figlerowicz, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2019
• Already in February 2023, the pope had said that Benedict once dismissed a complaint about what Francis said on civil unions, but offered fewer details.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 2 Apr. 2024
• In another example, Francis came out in support of civil unions for same-sex couples, something previously opposed by the Vatican’s doctrine office.
  — Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025