Example sentences for: occupation

How can you use “occupation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Japan has never experienced the kind of large-scale immigration or even — until the postwar US occupation from 1945 to 1952 — foreign invasion that has made for social conflict in other countries.

  • They will be familiar from intervention disputes dating back at least to Vietnam, but they are especially useful for the summer-squall-style military actions of today, in which we all agree to be frenzied about the occupation of Kuwait or a drug-smuggling dictator in Panama or warlords in Somalia or genocide in Bosnia on the strict understanding that we will be allowed to forget all about these matters and places in six months, max.

  • In early 1992, the al Qaeda leadership issued a fatwa calling for jihad against the Western "occupation" of Islamic lands.

  • The earliest evidence of human occupation is provided by the Paleolithic cave paintings, some 25,000 years old, in the Cueva de la Pileta.

  • , education, occupation, income, wealth, housing tenure, etc.—are not simply “exchangeable†with each other and instead often yield different estimates of the magnitude of the socioeconomic gradient and affect health by independent as well as correlated pathways.


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