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.
• Lawyers are only one occupation in the path of A.I. progress.
  — Steve Lohr, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023
• But all of these options fall very short of ending the occupation.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2023
• By the fourth century, Roman occupation in Egypt meant that Opet was no longer a thing.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
• The young and old are piled in together -- pets fill the floor -- all with stories of life under Russian occupation.
  — Britt Clennett, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2023
• The unemployment rate for tech occupations rose to 2.3% in June.
  — Angus Loten, WSJ, 7 July 2023
• The church has been part of village life since the beginning of Russian occupation, one of the few places, people said, where Unangam Tunuu was welcome.
  — WIRED, 15 July 2023
• The details of the landscape and flora transported me back to the days before the occupation by Europeans.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Feb. 2024
• During the Russian occupation of Bakhmut in 2023, the Wagner Group set up its headquarters in the tunnels of the winery.
  — Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2023
• Israel maintains its occupation zone in southern Lebanon after pulling back from a line further north, controlling the area with the help of the South Lebanon Army.
  — Maeghan Dolph, Fox News, 22 Nov. 2023
• The answer to this week’s contest crossword is an occupation.
  — WSJ, 3 Aug. 2023
• These occupations will be changed by generative A.I., and all are likely to see job growth between now and 2030.
  — Michael Chui, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2023
• Israel’s occupation of this part of the enclave seems firm, its forces everywhere.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
• Far too many of the Israelis protesting Netanyahu right now have been passive at best in the face of the occupation and have only turned out to protest when their own rights have come under direct threat.
  — David Klion, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2023
• Hall imparts with grace and nuance that the humanity on offer from those in low vs. high skill occupations is often as stark as night and day.
  — Longreads, 28 July 2023
• Over that period, in-demand occupations such as childcare and food service saw their salary ranges narrow the fastest.
  — WIRED, 18 Sep. 2023
• While East Germany was a product of Germany’s postwar occupation, its roots stretch back to the origins of socialism.
  — Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023
• As well as being an actress and a sparkling drinks brand owner, the 35-year-old can now add jewelry designer to her growing list of occupations.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 21 Aug. 2023
• The song has also been sung as a form of protest against Japan’s occupation of Korea and subsequent efforts to erase Korean culture.
  — Elizabeth Myong, Dallas News, 5 May 2023
• Local officials — both Ukrainians who fled last year and those installed by the Russian occupation — said almost all of the town was flooded.
  — Maria Varenikova Mauricio Lima, New York Times, 7 June 2023
• Riaz was a member of the Afghan military who supported U.S. troops during the occupation of his home country as a bodyguard of sorts.
  — Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Dec. 2023
• Michael Caine plays a sodden British journalist during the 1950s occupation of what was then known as French Indochina.
  — Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 5 Apr. 2024
• In the wartime conditions of the Russian occupation, few in Kherson knew that children were already being blocked from returning to the Kharkiv region.
  — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2023
• Most of the time, depending on asylum-seekers’ occupations in Haiti, the paperwork goes through quickly.
  — Liam Reilly, CNN, 30 Apr. 2023
• The operation gave the Army, which succeeded in its mission to repel Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait, a boost.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 27 May 2023
• The legacy of nearly half a century of Soviet occupation has cast a long shadow.
  — Richard Morrison, National Review, 15 Dec. 2023
• The Ministry considers the visit an attempt to legitimize the occupation regime in Donetsk.
  — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024