How to Use occupy in a Sentence

occupy

verb
  • They occupy the room next to ours.
  • They have occupied the apartment for three years.
  • Their house occupies a beautiful spot next to the ocean.
  • They own another house that they occupy only three months out of the year.
  • Much of our time is occupied by answering questions from our customers.
  • These questions have continued to occupy her mind.
  • This region was once almost completely occupied by forests.
  • She occupies the house that her grandfather built 50 years ago.
  • If the dirt is disturbed the next day, the den is occupied.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 4 Feb. 2026
  • That is the space d/acc is trying to occupy.
    — Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
  • To be the first to occupy a house meant something.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The bill occupies no special place in the room.
    — Nik Popli, Time, 8 June 2026
  • Out of the nine rooms, only five were occupied.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The kitchen occupies the center of the home.
    — Adam Williams april 14, New Atlas, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Less than one in five apartments are occupied.
    — Albee Zhang, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Watch this video to see how slow feeders and lick mats can keep your pet occupied for longer.
    — Cody Godwin, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Most of us occupy the middle ground.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • The pool alone could occupy several days, and did so in our case.
    — Arion McNicoll, TheWeek, 15 June 2026
  • That occupied a big chunk and was close to becoming the through-line?
    — Adam Moss, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Fans are really in for such a treat, so that occupies a lot of our time right now.
    — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 29 Mar. 2025
  • No language has, or ever will, occupy that role in my life.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
  • On a normal school day, members of the choir would have occupied those seats.
    — Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 9 May 2026
  • The larger the space, the more ways a photon can occupy that space.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2026
  • But the arts soon occupied his time, as well as partying.
    — Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Next to this, occupying the center of the home, is the kitchen.
    — Adam Williams may 03, New Atlas, 3 May 2026
  • While the men put up the tent, the wives undertook to make the place fit to occupy.
    — Doris Decleene, Outdoor Life, 25 Feb. 2026
  • But those units are not simply waiting to be occupied.
    — Stephen Martin, Oklahoma Watch, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Haula occupied the paint and set a screen for L’Heureux to fire through.
    — Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Now it is occupied by a bay of computers.
    — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The unit occupies a lot of 3,800 square feet.
    — Bay Area Home Report, Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2026

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