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 notion of taxing unoccupied second homes as a way to address housing affordability is not unique to San Diego.
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Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2026
The Camaro crashed down on an unoccupied vehicle in the San Francisco Police Department impound yard.
—David Chiu, PEOPLE, 2 June 2026
Sunday night, firefighters arrived to find heavy fire and smoke coming from the two-story unoccupied building, according to a Kansas City Fire Department news release.
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 1 June 2026
But the apartment wasn’t unoccupied.
—Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 1 June 2026
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Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2026
The Camaro crashed down on an unoccupied vehicle in the San Francisco Police Department impound yard.
—David Chiu, PEOPLE, 2 June 2026
Sunday night, firefighters arrived to find heavy fire and smoke coming from the two-story unoccupied building, according to a Kansas City Fire Department news release.
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 1 June 2026
But the apartment wasn’t unoccupied.
—Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 1 June 2026
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“Unoccupied.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unoccupied. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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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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