How to Use occupation in a Sentence

occupation

noun
  • The offices are ready for occupation.
  • Some evidence of human occupation was found in these caves.
  • Swimming was their main occupation at summer camp.
  • He is thinking about changing occupations and becoming a police officer.
  • There is, at the time the book is set, no sense of an occupation.
    — Daniel Drake, The New York Review of Books, 5 Nov. 2022
  • That is not what this occupation is about.
    — Alex Derosier, Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2026
  • But oddly enough, some of those occupations still showed up on the list.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • But new occupations and jobs arose that were greater in number.
    — Michael Bernick, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Put simply, some occupations might go away, but most of them just change.
    — Christos Makridis, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2026
  • What the state will get is a pristine tract that has no hint of human occupation.
    — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 6 Mar. 2025
  • What looked at first like a mere rendition now sounds more like an occupation.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Stop the funding, stop the occupations, stop the killings.
    — Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2026
  • But all of these options fall very short of ending the occupation.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2023
  • This slaughter must end, this occupation must end.
    — Jack Sheehan september 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Tokar pulled out his phone and showed a video of a car in which a civilian had been killed during the occupation.
    — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Black+Decker performed well in our tests, as shown by its occupation of the top two spots.
    — Car and Driver, 24 Oct. 2022
  • It was made to represent that the occupation is cool.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 9 Nov. 2025
  • At its peak, the occupation swelled to around three thousand people.
    — Rachel Morris, New Yorker, 5 June 2025
  • She/her What is your occupation?
    — Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Apr. 2026
  • For an oblate, prayer was an occupation, both a way to fill the day and a mystical way of healing the world.
    — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • This list compiles some of the odd jobs and mundane occupations of famous scribes.
    — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 May 2026
  • All occupation children, all of mixed-race parentage and a result of war.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 15 Feb. 2026
  • In the first days of occupation, Russian soldiers killed her son.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Regardless there is more than an occupation test.
    — Peter J Reilly, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • What is Bluey’s dad’s occupation?
    — Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 9 Apr. 2026
  • His far-right allies have opposed an end to the war and called for a complete occupation of Gaza.
    — Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The failure of these occupations should raise alarms in Israel.
    — Asher Kaufman, The Conversation, 1 June 2026
  • In some of these occupations, tips make up more than half of total earnings, so the impact is enormous.
    — Stephen Moore, Boston Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The toll of nearly nine months of occupation may be felt for years to come — but for now at least, there is celebration.
    — Marc Smith, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The human cost of maintaining the occupation was too high.
    — Justin Salhani, The Dial, 5 Mar. 2026

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