How to Use occupancy in a Sentence

occupancy

noun

• 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
• Those two events on the same weekend puts the local hotel occupancy rate to 94%, the firm said.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 10 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The mall has suffered a loss of occupancy in recent years.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 23 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Maui charges some of the highest hotel and resort rates and occupancies in Hawaii.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 10 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• As the war of workplace strategies plays out, office occupancy rates won’t be the numbers to watch.
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Cruise ships can sail at over 100% occupancy when more than two people stay in staterooms.
  — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
• 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
• That would place Mission Viejo as the fourth-highest transient occupancy tax in the county.
  — Annika Bahnsen, Orange County Register, 19 June 2024
• Last week’s data showed that Friday was the lowest day of occupancy and Tuesday was the highest.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 3 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Office occupancy rates will foretell whether the work-from-home movement sticks or not.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2023
• Astroworld wasn’t required to have an occupancy permit for the event.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2022
• At a minimum, Trump should get about an extra year of occupancy from Tiffany.
  — Dan Alexander, Forbes, 11 June 2022
• The downsizing pain in Hartford isn’t over, with more tenants expected to give up space in the year ahead, further pushing down occupancy levels.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 24 Mar. 2025
• Stewart noted more than 40% of Sandals’ occupancy is comprised of repeat guests.
  — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2025