Example sentences for: occupies

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

  • Squatter, not in the American and earliest Australian sense of one who illegally occupies land but in the main Australian sense of one who has title to a tract of grazing land, is recorded in 1837 and is essentially a word of the 1840s; but in the earlier period both runs and stations were being established for the grazing of sheep and cattle.

  • It occupies a 16th-century mansion, with thick stone walls and heavy wooden beams, and is decorated with excellent taste.

  • It occupies a giant glass box and so obviously harks back to the geometric forms of the Minimalist movement of the '70s.

  • And he gets a charming performance from Allen, who, in his acting debut, occupies his pedestal with grace and diffidence.

  • The name of one of the most favored places of modern Rome, Piazza Navona , is a disguised form of a word for the ancient structure whose site it occupies, a stadium ( circus in Latin) built by the emperor Domitian.


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