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 at present temporarily here at Camden, on the Delaware river, opposite Philadelphia, at the house of my brother, and I am occupying, as I write, the rooms wherein my mother died.
From The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman by Anne Burrows Gilchrist
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
I am occupying the room which was once his.
From Five Hundred Dollars or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret by Horatio Alger
Don't be afraid of long and learned words, and don't suppose that I am occupying your attention in this way, without a serious reason for it which you will presently understand.
From Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time by Wilkie Collins
