How to Use occupy in a Sentence

occupy

verb

• They occupy the room next to ours.
• They have occupied the apartment for three years.
• Their house occupies a beautiful spot next to the ocean.
• They own another house that they occupy only three months out of the year.
• Much of our time is occupied by answering questions from our customers.
• These questions have continued to occupy her mind.
• This region was once almost completely occupied by forests.
• She occupies the house that her grandfather built 50 years ago.
• After the clip of Trump is over, Biden and Sanders occupy the full screen.
  — Jason Zengerle, New York Times, 26 May 2024
• The list of teams that can pull off the feat includes some of the biggest names in the sport that occupy the top spots in the poll.
  — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2022
• The family moved to Rome in the mid-1930s and was threatened when the Nazis occupied the city.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2023
• The film tracks the fate of the Polish players, some of whom are Jewish, as the Nazis occupy Poland.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024
• The San Diego version, which will occupy 3,200 square feet, will take the place of the New Orleans area.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2022
• Alfa also added tablet holders to the back of the front seats to keep your kids occupied.
  — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 28 Mar. 2023
• That means that more pelicans, cormorants and terns now occupy the bay to feast on the fish.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2022
• All were too occupied to attend his games, so Sanders learned to win the affection of the crowd.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023
• Nothing mediocre or staid occupies the space or the menu.
  — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 29 May 2024
• No matter, at least Mum had a seat and, aged eleven, a drawing slate to keep her occupied.
  — Dr. Tessa Dunlop, Town & Country, 2 Apr. 2023
• The Chiefs became the first team to win with their quarterback occupying more than 13% of the salary cap.
  — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 14 Feb. 2025
• Not all -tion words occupy slots in both categories, though, and which nouns are what kind has changed over the years.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Aug. 2022
• None will be permitted to occupy the space abutting on the tank.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2022
• In the vast and murky landscape of lace-ups, oxfords occupy the most formal spot.
  — Isaiah Freeman-Schub, Robb Report, 7 Dec. 2023
• Later, when the fires got worse, fewer of the buildings were occupied.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• Potala Palace occupies a hill overlooking the city and requires a steep climb just to reach the front door.
  — Jordan Riefe, Robb Report, 29 Jan. 2024
• Ischia, named for the island off Naples, will take over the space that Vin Santo occupied for years.
  — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2025
• That’s opened up new habitats that the species can migrate upward to and occupy.
  — Rachel Crowell, Quanta Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
• Somehow the score was able to time-travel, to occupy the strange, haunted time in between.
  — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2022
• Peltola is the first Democrat to occupy the seat since the early 1970s.
  — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2022
• But the forests have also worked to the advantage of Russian forces who now occupy about 30% of the region.
  — Vivian Salama, WSJ, 29 July 2022
• Delle had set the glass on the floor, and was now occupying her hands by picking at her inky black manicure.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 17 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 4 Mar 2025