Example Sentences

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“Today, we are Black people who are occupying this space for the first time in a long time.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2025

"If at first our entrepreneurs were very worried about the departure of Western companies, now they are occupying vacated production facilities and sites in shopping centres".

From Reuters • Jun. 16, 2023

Covid-19 patients are occupying 5 percent of hospital beds, compared with 21 percent at this point last year, according to CDC data.

From Washington Post • Jan. 22, 2023

Russian troops are occupying the sprawling Zaporizhzhia plant by the Dnieper River in southern Ukraine.

From BBC • May 20, 2022

The crowd are occupying the site of the Free Trade Hall, the Theatre Royal, the Y.M.C.A., the Gaiety, and a number of adjoining buildings.

From Three Accounts of Peterloo By Eyewitnesses Bishop Stanley, Lord Hylton, John Benjamin Smith with Bishop Stanley's Evidence at the Trial by Jolliffe, William