occupy
verb (used with object)
to take or fill up (space, time, etc.).
am occupying
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present progressiveof occupy (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I am occupying one of the rooms — the four of us.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2020
They fight with rapiers, next morning, in the garden of whatever house I am occupying.
From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
I am occupying the same position as last night.
From The Campaign of Chancellorsville by Dodge, Theodore Ayrault
Masters forced me to go, and I am occupying his cottage at Englewood.
From The Woman Who Vowed The Demetrian by Harding, Ellison
COSTELLO—I am afraid I am occupying the time of the court too much, but really a man placed in such a position as I now occupy, finds it necessary to make a few observations.
From The Dock and the Scaffold by Unknown
