How to Use occupancy in a Sentence

occupancy

noun

• Hise said the board could take occupancy of the space sometime in the fall.
  — William J. Ford, Baltimore Sun, 24 Mar. 2025
• This is up from the 79 percent yard occupancy rate at the end of June.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 14 July 2025
• And Wirth can tell them – down to the number of beds the dorm will fit and which will be the first and last rooms ready for occupancy.
  — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 29 Nov. 2021
• The new owner plans to make changes to the shopping venue and increase occupancy over the next 12 to 18 months.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 1 June 2021
• Those two events on the same weekend puts the local hotel occupancy rate to 94%, the firm said.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 10 Feb. 2023
• The shift follows last month’s full opening of 22.5 miles of high-occupancy toll lanes from the Beltway to Gainesville.
  — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2022
• The city and Rafiq have been squaring off over the single-room occupancy hotel for more than a decade.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022
• The lounge will serve cocktails and light snacks, and there will be occupancy limits.
  — Robin Raven, Forbes, 13 May 2021
• Demand was one, measured by occupancy rates and the rate at which new listings were added in the area.
  — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
• And then there was an occupancy fee of $12 per person, per day.
  — USA Today, 4 June 2021
• The mall has suffered a loss of occupancy in recent years.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 23 Dec. 2021
• The home does not have a certificate of occupancy from the city of Los Angeles, which means it cannot be lived in.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2021
• Maui charges some of the highest hotel and resort rates and occupancies in Hawaii.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 10 Aug. 2023
• Aramark was not able to provide occupancy rates for the North Rim lodge.
  — Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 21 July 2025
• New York's inpatient occupancy rate through the last week of May was about 85%, Smith said.
  — Dr. Adjoa Smalls-Mantey, ABC News, 30 June 2021
• Like a lot of big hotels, the Palace stayed open, but occupancy was low — only 5% of the rooms were occupied.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 May 2021
• As its name makes clear, the Roof Space 4 doubles the occupancy of the original Roof Space 2 to sleep a total of four people.
  — New Atlas, 11 Mar. 2025
• When that didn’t work and the project was still stalled by 1950, the crumbling co-op sold the land to a developer with the total ban on non-white occupancy.
  — Lauren Hepler, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2021
• As the war of workplace strategies plays out, office occupancy rates won’t be the numbers to watch.
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2022
• As has been the case in every new hospital built in San Diego over the past decade, Rady plans to make rooms single occupancy.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2023
• Alone in a single-room-occupancy apartment, a man builds a stage from milk crates and cardboard.
  — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2022
• Jari LLC has filed an occupancy application with the city to open a smoke shop there.
  — Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 May 2021
• The space will be built out by contractor C.G. Schmidt and ready for occupancy in early 2023.
  — Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2022
• Plus, thanks to the higher occupancy, this would make for the perfect getaway for a group of friends or family.
  — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 11 Apr. 2024
• Plus, thanks to the higher occupancy, this would make for the perfect getaway for a group of friends or family.
  — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 7 Apr. 2025
• But even if money is no object, low supply and high occupancy rates mean rentals are hard to find in the Cincinnati area.
  — The Enquirer, 16 July 2023
• So far, occupancy in newer apartment projects in and around downtown are in the mid-90s or better.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 3 Apr. 2022
• People living in the homes who paid the taxes, signed occupancy agreements and paid a $100 monthly fee could stay in them.
  — David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2022
• The funds are part of a revenue stream that includes hotel occupancy taxes and other tourism tax dollars that have ballooned over the past decade as Nashville’s tourism has exploded.
  — Kelly Puente, The Tennessean, 13 Aug. 2025
• Construction and maintenance at the Hall of Fame is specifically funded by a 2% hotel occupancy tax.
  — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 4 Aug. 2025