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
I am occupying the same position as last night.
From The Campaign of Chancellorsville by Theodore Ayrault Dodge
You are my guest, and I am occupying the only available seat.
From A Modern Wizard by Rodrigues Ottolengui
So I am occupying myself, from time to time, as my leisure allows, in making a fair copy of my Georgia Journal.
From Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble
May 4, I sent this despatch to Gen. Hooker: 'I am occupying the same position as last night.
From The Campaign of Chancellorsville by Theodore Ayrault Dodge
