How to Use occupy in a Sentence

occupy

verb

• They occupy the room next to ours.
• They have occupied the apartment for three years.
• Their house occupies a beautiful spot next to the ocean.
• They own another house that they occupy only three months out of the year.
• Much of our time is occupied by answering questions from our customers.
• These questions have continued to occupy her mind.
• This region was once almost completely occupied by forests.
• She occupies the house that her grandfather built 50 years ago.
• After the clip of Trump is over, Biden and Sanders occupy the full screen.
  — Jason Zengerle, New York Times, 26 May 2024
• The family moved to Rome in the mid-1930s and was threatened when the Nazis occupied the city.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2023
• The film tracks the fate of the Polish players, some of whom are Jewish, as the Nazis occupy Poland.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024
• All were too occupied to attend his games, so Sanders learned to win the affection of the crowd.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023
• Nothing mediocre or staid occupies the space or the menu.
  — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 29 May 2024
• In the vast and murky landscape of lace-ups, oxfords occupy the most formal spot.
  — Isaiah Freeman-Schub, Robb Report, 7 Dec. 2023
• Later, when the fires got worse, fewer of the buildings were occupied.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• Potala Palace occupies a hill overlooking the city and requires a steep climb just to reach the front door.
  — Jordan Riefe, Robb Report, 29 Jan. 2024
• Back then, the long journey westward was just a means of occupying our time after the sun went down.
  — WIRED, 14 June 2023
• There were 63 precincts where most housing units are occupied by renters.
  — Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 26 Mar. 2024
• Too early to care There’s plenty to keep investors occupied at the moment: When will the Fed lower the base rate?
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2024
• Police said the freezer was not on at the time the body was discovered and the home had not been occupied since February 2023.
  — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
• What better time to invest in some things to keep you occupied inside?
  — WIRED, 21 Sep. 2023
• In just a day, the dozens of vendors who had occupied the bridge were simply replaced by tourists hoping to get the perfect shot.
  — The Brooklyn Bridge, Curbed, 3 Jan. 2024
• After his death, it was occupied by Prince George, Duke of Cambridge.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2024
• There’s another spot for soaking, too, with a large Jacuzzi occupying pride of place on the fly deck.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 June 2023
• Nearly half the shelf space in the store is occupied by the multiple brands under the H-E-B umbrella.
  — Noah Alcala Bach, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Apr. 2024
• From Roman legionnaires to Napoleon’s troops, many armies have occupied Aragonese over the years.
  — Joe Yogerst, CNN, 11 May 2023
• The space will now be occupied by an expansion of The Charles, a Wethersfield restaurant, that could open later this year.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 17 Jan. 2024
• On Page 48 was a picture of her husband, Robert, outside their home, describing the scene of campers occupying the porch and the fields.
  — Michael S. Williamson, Washington Post, 22 June 2024
• Yousafzai concluded the caption with a reminder that the Taliban (which banned music and television in her village in 2008) is still occupying Afghanistan.
  — The Deadline Team, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2024
• The researchers looked at both the eastern and western Joshua trees, which have some differences — for instance, each is pollinated by a different species of yucca moth — but also hybridize and occupy overlapping climates, as the study notes.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024