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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If the flight is not full, the middle seat might remain unoccupied, giving both travelers extra room to stretch out.
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Jessica Safavimehr,
Southern Living,
25 June 2026
There is growing interest today in the largely unoccupied FR3 band, which spans roughly 7 to 24 gigahertz, situated between crowded low/mid-bands and the much higher millimeter-wave frequencies.
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Shivendra Panwar,
IEEE Spectrum,
24 June 2026
Police then tried to make a felony stop, but the vehicle was unoccupied at that point.
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Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 June 2026
Residences in the Metropolitan, a 10-story tower built in 1913, are nearly filled with tenants but its ground floor retail spaces on Broadway and 5th Street are unoccupied, as are other street-level stores in downtown’s Historic Core.
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Roger Vincent,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2026
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Jessica Safavimehr,
Southern Living,
25 June 2026
There is growing interest today in the largely unoccupied FR3 band, which spans roughly 7 to 24 gigahertz, situated between crowded low/mid-bands and the much higher millimeter-wave frequencies.
—
Shivendra Panwar,
IEEE Spectrum,
24 June 2026
Police then tried to make a felony stop, but the vehicle was unoccupied at that point.
—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 June 2026
Residences in the Metropolitan, a 10-story tower built in 1913, are nearly filled with tenants but its ground floor retail spaces on Broadway and 5th Street are unoccupied, as are other street-level stores in downtown’s Historic Core.
—
Roger Vincent,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2026
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“Unoccupied.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unoccupied. Accessed 2 Jul. 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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