Examples of unoccupied in a Sentence
About half of the seats were unoccupied when the concert started.
A third of the beds at the hospital were unoccupied.
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The fellow who owned the corner brick at 10th and C apparently had hoped to avoid the penalty for leaving the 124-year-old house unoccupied.
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Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 21 June 2024
The incident happened around 9:30 p.m. Saturday at an unoccupied home in the 2300 block of Byron Street, the Palo Alto Police Department said in a news release.
—Jason Green, The Mercury News, 18 June 2024
Guests tell of closed curtains opening overnight and calls placed from unoccupied rooms.
—Jason Sheeler, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Feb. 2024
Regardless, both Copeland and Fisher say wolverines thrive in wide swaths of relatively unoccupied, cold territory — environments increasingly threatened by oil and gas extraction, logging, residential development, the recreation of terrain-seeking backcountry skiers, and climate change.
—Christine Peterson, Vox, 1 July 2024
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Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 21 June 2024
The incident happened around 9:30 p.m. Saturday at an unoccupied home in the 2300 block of Byron Street, the Palo Alto Police Department said in a news release.
—Jason Green, The Mercury News, 18 June 2024
Guests tell of closed curtains opening overnight and calls placed from unoccupied rooms.
—Jason Sheeler, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Feb. 2024
Regardless, both Copeland and Fisher say wolverines thrive in wide swaths of relatively unoccupied, cold territory — environments increasingly threatened by oil and gas extraction, logging, residential development, the recreation of terrain-seeking backcountry skiers, and climate change.
—Christine Peterson, Vox, 1 July 2024
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“Unoccupied.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unoccupied. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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unoccupied
adjective
un·oc·cu·pied
ˌən-ˈäk-yə-ˌpīd 
ˈən-
1
: not busy : unemployed
2
: not occupied : empty
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