occupying

Example Sentences

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Schulz was an illustrator as well as a writer, and before he was murdered during the war he was forced to paint a bedroom mural for an occupying Nazi officer in what is now Ukraine.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

What will worry Spurs fans even more is that across 31 Premier League seasons, a team occupying 18th place after 31 matches has been relegated on 21 occasions.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

A previous report described bees drilling into human bones, but not simply occupying natural cavities like these.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

Perhaps this could all be done more quickly than securing the Strait of Hormuz or occupying Kharg, but it’s not an in-and-out operation like Venezuela.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026

Yet he cannot picture his family occupying a house like this, playing board games on rainy afternoons, watching shooting stars at night, all their relatives gathered neatly on a small strip of sand.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri