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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At the second smallest of the 16 venues, there appeared to be thousands of unoccupied seats.
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Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 14 June 2026
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office charged him with burglary of an unoccupied vehicle and theft.
—Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 14 June 2026
Sections in the middle of the stands had many unoccupied seats and there were other empty seats scattered across the stadium.
—ABC News, 12 June 2026
The car then went into reverse and crashed into an unoccupied parked car, per police.
—Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
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Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 14 June 2026
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office charged him with burglary of an unoccupied vehicle and theft.
—Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 14 June 2026
Sections in the middle of the stands had many unoccupied seats and there were other empty seats scattered across the stadium.
—ABC News, 12 June 2026
The car then went into reverse and crashed into an unoccupied parked car, per police.
—Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
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“Unoccupied.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unoccupied. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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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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