How to Use occupancy in a Sentence
occupancy
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And Wirth can tell them – down to the number of beds the dorm will fit and which will be the first and last rooms ready for occupancy.
—Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 29 Nov. 2021
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Those two events on the same weekend puts the local hotel occupancy rate to 94%, the firm said.
—Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 10 Feb. 2023
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The shift follows last month’s full opening of 22.5 miles of high-occupancy toll lanes from the Beltway to Gainesville.
—Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2022
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The city and Rafiq have been squaring off over the single-room occupancy hotel for more than a decade.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022
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Demand was one, measured by occupancy rates and the rate at which new listings were added in the area.
—New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
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The mall has suffered a loss of occupancy in recent years.
—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 23 Dec. 2021
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The home does not have a certificate of occupancy from the city of Los Angeles, which means it cannot be lived in.
—Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2021
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Maui charges some of the highest hotel and resort rates and occupancies in Hawaii.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 10 Aug. 2023
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As its name makes clear, the Roof Space 4 doubles the occupancy of the original Roof Space 2 to sleep a total of four people.
—New Atlas, 11 Mar. 2025
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When that didn’t work and the project was still stalled by 1950, the crumbling co-op sold the land to a developer with the total ban on non-white occupancy.
—Lauren Hepler, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2021
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As the war of workplace strategies plays out, office occupancy rates won’t be the numbers to watch.
—Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2022
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As has been the case in every new hospital built in San Diego over the past decade, Rady plans to make rooms single occupancy.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2023
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Alone in a single-room-occupancy apartment, a man builds a stage from milk crates and cardboard.
—Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2022
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The space will be built out by contractor C.G. Schmidt and ready for occupancy in early 2023.
—Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2022
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Plus, thanks to the higher occupancy, this would make for the perfect getaway for a group of friends or family.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 11 Apr. 2024
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But even if money is no object, low supply and high occupancy rates mean rentals are hard to find in the Cincinnati area.
—The Enquirer, 16 July 2023
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So far, occupancy in newer apartment projects in and around downtown are in the mid-90s or better.
—Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 3 Apr. 2022
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People living in the homes who paid the taxes, signed occupancy agreements and paid a $100 monthly fee could stay in them.
—David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2022
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Cruise ships can sail at over 100% occupancy when more than two people stay in staterooms.
—Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
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The city can contest the existence of a housing structure but cannot challenge the occupancy of the structure.
—Kristi Tanner, Detroit Free Press, 26 July 2022
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That would place Mission Viejo as the fourth-highest transient occupancy tax in the county.
—Annika Bahnsen, Orange County Register, 19 June 2024
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Last week’s data showed that Friday was the lowest day of occupancy and Tuesday was the highest.
—Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 3 Feb. 2023
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In June, Chicago reported record-breaking hotel occupancy over the weekend the Eras Tour came to the city.
—Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
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Wood said there are a few vacancies there, but the property is close to full occupancy.
—Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Oct. 2022
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For him, the costs of financing and construction wipe out the upside of high occupancy rates and rising rents.
—Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2022
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Office occupancy rates will foretell whether the work-from-home movement sticks or not.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2023
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Astroworld wasn’t required to have an occupancy permit for the event.
—Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2022
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At a minimum, Trump should get about an extra year of occupancy from Tiffany.
—Dan Alexander, Forbes, 11 June 2022
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In March, as the occupancy rate stood at about 79 percent, Donald pledged to raise it 10 percentage points by the end of September.
—Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
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The houses are ready to be delivered once the certificates of occupancy are issued.
—Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 2 Mar. 2025
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