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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Look in the mountainous West, or the South: Ogden, Utah, led the way, with 12.2 percent of all bedrooms unoccupied, followed by Colorado Springs (12.1 percent).
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Matt Yan, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Seminole County sheriff’s deputies were able to locate the unoccupied truck in a nearby parking lot where the deputies witnessed a man matching the driver’s description enter the truck.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2025
Three of the unoccupied vehicles that were hit with bullets were in the parking lot of a doughnut shop in the 2700 block of Contra Loma Boulevard.
—Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2024
Officers found an unoccupied Acura SUV partially submerged in the water and a dead woman nearby on a cart path, Szydlo said.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 31 Dec. 2024
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Matt Yan, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Seminole County sheriff’s deputies were able to locate the unoccupied truck in a nearby parking lot where the deputies witnessed a man matching the driver’s description enter the truck.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2025
Three of the unoccupied vehicles that were hit with bullets were in the parking lot of a doughnut shop in the 2700 block of Contra Loma Boulevard.
—Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2024
Officers found an unoccupied Acura SUV partially submerged in the water and a dead woman nearby on a cart path, Szydlo said.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 31 Dec. 2024
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“Unoccupied.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unoccupied. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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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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