Definition: 1. To fill or use a space, an area or an amount of time. 2. Be present in; be inside of. 3. Keep busy with.
Use 'occupy' in a sentence:
1. On the basis of these experiments and of field observations, the so-called law of competitive exclusion was formulated, according to which no two species can occupy the same niche.
2. Many men still occupy more positions of power than women.
3. Toward, will occupy to has yellow.
4. The occupying forces set up a puppet government.
5. The bed seemed to occupy most of the room.
6. During the war their lands were occupied by the enemy.
7. The hospital bed is no longer occupied by his wife.
8. The castle occupies a commanding position on a hill.
9. One reason for the scarcity is that there are fairly few women in management in Norwegian companies—they occupy around 15% of senior positions.
10. Even quite small aircraft occupy a lot of space.
11. Headphones occupy this critical piece of cranial real estate and are highly visible.
12. This challenge will occupy Europe for a generation or more.
13. The repairs needed before we can occupy the house will be considerable.
14. This is important because the kernel and user application occupy different protected address spaces.
15. I had other matters to occupy me, during the day at least.
16. We occupy a quality position in the market place.
17. As global temperatures rise, they would naturally migrate to higher ground — but they already occupy the mountaintop.
18. People occupy valuable table space in quiet times.
19. I'm sorry to occupy your time, but I really want to talk with you about the pet problem nowadays.
20. U.S. forces now occupy a part of the country.
21. With them, she can occupy all these different roles, and in doing so she has access to certain kinds of knowledge.
22. Men still occupy more positions of power than women.
23. But we're unique in that some of our sculptures were actually created for the sites they occupy here, and we also show sculptures by a wider range of artists than anywhere else in the country.
24. They occupied the first two floors of the tower.
25. He occupies an office on the 12th floor.
26. "Displays the number of persons occupying this space"
27. Protesting students occupied the TV station.
28. I desperately needed something to occupy me during those long, lonely nights.
29. It will not occupy much space.
30. Only half of the rooms are occupied at the moment.
31. People of two occupy a table for six.
32. As a result, pastoralists, like carnivores in general, occupy a higher position on the food chain.
33. It means that pastoralist societies occupy and can influence very large territories.
34. The physical structure of species competing for resources in the same ecological niche tends to gradually evolve in ways that allow them to occupy different niches.
35. She asked us to respect the old campsites that occupy nearly every river terrace, as well as the many pictographs.
36. They are growing larger, both in the sense that they occupy more land and that the trees in them are bigger.
37. If we're honest with ourselves, tech is just another way to occupy our time and minds.
38. The deserts, which already occupy approximately a fourth of the Earth's land surface, have in recent decades been increasing at an alarming pace.
39. Let's occupy the orbitals.
40. She occupied herself with routine office tasks.
41. This region continues to occupy centre stage in world affairs.
42. The president occupies the position for four years.
43. Even small aircraft occupy a lot of space.
44. The most important thing is to keep yourself occupied.
45. Administrative work occupies half of my time.
46. Only half her time is occupied with politics.
47. He's fully occupied looking after three small children.
48. Numerous insects occupy the marsh, feeding on living or dead cordgrass tissue, and redwing blackbirds, sparrows, rodents, rabbits, and deer feed directly on the cordgrass.
49. I saw three camp beds, two of which were occupied.
50. Their album has occupied the Number One slot for the past six weeks.
51. We were promised safe passage through the occupied territory.
52. The ballet company now occupies the middle ground between classical ballet and modern dance.
53. How much memory does the program occupy?
54. Problems at work continued to occupy his mind for some time.
