How to Use unoccupied in a Sentence

unoccupied

adjective

• A third of the beds at the hospital were unoccupied.
• About half of the seats were unoccupied when the concert started.
• The restaurant was unoccupied at the time of the fire and there were no injuries.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 13 May 2022
• The car was found parked and unoccupied at the 49 Street Tavern.
  — Brian Lisik, cleveland, 13 Aug. 2022
• The clinic was closed and unoccupied at the time of the shooting.
  — CBS News, 7 Jan. 2022
• This is the second unoccupied house collapse of the day at the Seashore.
  — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2022
• Police also noted that the homes were unoccupied at the time of the break-ins.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 10 Feb. 2023
• The kindergarten was unoccupied at the time of the attack, and no bystanders were wounded in the blast.
  — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 3 Nov. 2023
• The 2-alarm blaze appears to have started in a unit that was unoccupied at the time.
  — Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Jan. 2022
• In fact, the entire area was then unoccupied for up to 600 years.
  — Elizabeth Fernandez, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
• Both the Sentra and Malibu were unoccupied at the time.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2023
• The few unoccupied cots bared the bright logo of the American Red Cross.
  — Rick Childress, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2022
• At the home, a woman answered the door and claimed the house was unoccupied, police said.
  — Henri Hollis, ajc, 2 Nov. 2021
• The car, a 2005 Honda sedan, was unoccupied when it was struck.
  — Clifford Ward, chicagotribune.com, 10 Feb. 2022
• The car was unoccupied with the keys still present, but some items were missing from the vehicle.
  — Isha Trivedi, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
• The building was unoccupied at the time of the collapse and no injuries occurred.
  — Tonya Alanez, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2022
• The couple had no choice but to swim to Lanai, reaching land at an unoccupied beach around 1 p.m.
  — Daniel Wu, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2023
• The two homes in Rodanthe were both unoccupied at the time, the agency said.
  — Jamiel Lynch and Jennifer Henderson, CNN, 11 May 2022
• But while the home was unoccupied, the woman broke in through the back door and moved in, furniture and all, Shelton said.
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024
• The building in the 1300 block of H Street NE was unoccupied, a fire department spokesman said.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
• Ensure that doors and windows are locked when the home is unoccupied and at night.
  — Anne Kniggendorf, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
• See how one unoccupied house was swept into the ocean this week.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 25 Sep. 2024
• The opposing head of the table to the right was unoccupied, but looming on the wall behind it was a large-screen TV.
  — William P. Barr, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022
• The building has been unoccupied for more than three decades.
  — al, 11 Jan. 2022
• The crew did not ask to see his boarding pass but noted that the seat he at first took was listed as unoccupied.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2023
• In New York City, the rental vacancy rate, which is the share of habitable unoccupied units, has dropped to a record low 1.4%.
  — Anna Bahney, CNN, 19 Feb. 2024
• The seat next to the gaping hole had been unoccupied, and other passengers in the row had their seatbelts on.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2024
• According to neighbors, the house that slid down the hill was unoccupied.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• Per the statement, lights were turned on during an event last week, but turned off when the building was unoccupied.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
• Even still, thousands of cots had already been set up in the outfield to house first responders and service workers, so when the roof was ripped off, the unoccupied cots added to an already apocalyptic scene of destruction.
  — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024