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Example sentences for "occupant"

Lexicographically close words:
occultism; occultist; occultists; occupacion; occupancy; occupants; occupation; occupational; occupations; occupe
  1. Either there was another occupant of the craft, who had climbed out and was now pushing the thing along the ground, or else some form of silent mechanism was operating the wheels upon which, presumably, the craft was mounted.

  2. Not once did the strange occupant of that machine relax his stony stare at the sky, and Smith tried to forget how hungry he was by estimating the extent of his vision.

  3. As before, Billie could make out not a single detail of the occupant herself.

  4. The occupant approached to within a respectful distance from Billie's borrowed eyes, and proceeded to hum the following through his antennae: "Supreme, I have been ordered to report for Number Four.

  5. The dual crown of Sicily-Anjou was rich, and the prospects of the new occupant of that throne with respect to Naples, and possibly to Aragon, were of the highest; consequently the matrimonial market was absolutely at her command.

  6. National Museum, Naples To face page 216] The Queen’s father’s predecessor as occupant of the throne of Naples had been his second cousin, Giovanna I.

  7. The little Princess was not the only occupant of the royal nursery in Zaragoza; King Juan’s child Juanita greeted her baby companion with glee, but the Queen was not too well pleased that she should be allowed to remain there.

  8. He could indeed follow every movement of the occupant of the bath as graphically as if he had seen him--from the brisk scrubbing of body and legs to the finicky process of cleaning the ears and toes.

  9. I was travelling by rail from Perth to Glasgow, and the only other occupant of my compartment was an elderly gentleman, who, from his general air and appearance, might have been a dominie, or member of some other learned profession.

  10. Its only occupant was a man in crimson trousers, the reflection from which made little splashes of warm colour in the pearl grey sea.

  11. The only other occupant was a young minister in a white tie, puffing comfortably at his cigar, which in the manner of so many Dutchmen he seemed to eat as he smoked.

  12. There was nothing whatever unusual about the appearance of the room, nothing to show that anybody had entered it since its occupant had gone down to dance at the ball.

  13. The sole occupant of the body of the car was a woman, who all at once opened the door, stood up, and beckoned to him.

  14. But now I realized that for some time strange dreams had been coming to me, of a possibility that in its occupant a marvelous and glorious creature might one day find something kindred, a heart to which her own would respond.

  15. It was, as I had surmised, the Murillo-faced occupant of the room on the other side of the landing.

  16. The miserable occupant of the upper chamber was realizing it all now as she had never done before.

  17. The occupant of the quiet room was stretched in an attitude of languid repose upon the sofa as they entered, but probably in deep meditation.

  18. In a few moments the beautiful craft had disappeared and the little boat with its helpless occupant was left unheeded except by Him who permits not a sparrow to fall to the ground without his notice.

  19. He seemed to me a very strange and wonderful creature--this invisible occupant of the green chair.

  20. From that moment I date the beginning of my love for the occupant of the green chair in the home of Michael Hacket.

  21. Its present occupant had furnished it with a straw pallet, and a small wooden crucifix fixed in a recess in the wall.

  22. The occupant of the cottage, an elderly female, had surrendered all the apartments of her tenement, except one small room, to her guests, and she was therefore undisturbed.

  23. The lone occupant of the single seater can not keep his attention on all directions at once; and as the planes grew thicker in the air, the casualties among flyers increased.

  24. The new law extended the period during which the ousted proprietor could recover possession, by admitting no demurrer from the occupant so far as the years were concerned during which the Vandals should be in possession of the country.

  25. That is, the actual occupant could enter a demurrer to the former owner's action for recovery, citing his own occupancy for thirty years or more.

  26. Modern conveniences and appliances have in large measure supplanted the hard labor of human hands, lessened the hours of daily toil, and brought the occupant of the farm into closer touch with the outer world.

  27. Addressing himself now to the comparatively youthful occupant of the lately vacated seat, His Honor inquired: "What is your church, sir?

  28. The appointment of the master is peculiar, the office being in the gift of the occupant of Audley End, an estate near Saffron Walden, Essex.

  29. The present occupant of the position is known as the Camden professor of ancient history.

  30. Then all save the more rotund of the old women left the forecourt, while its remaining occupant said to me with a sigh: "You may come and look at him if you wish.

  31. Brewster had been a distinguished occupant of the post--distinguished not as a principal, for he received the appointment only at the age of seventy-eight, but as a scientist.

  32. During the first three weeks of my confinement the deep silence that prevailed about me had led me to adopt the opinion that I was the occupant of a maison de santé.

  33. The occupant probably dined elsewhere, but the regularity of these meals was unmistakable.

  34. Then, American fashion, he turned to the brown-skinned occupant with an air of authority.

  35. Got a passenger, Andy," he said to the sole occupant of the boat.

  36. On the foundation of the Murchison professorship of geology and mineralogy at the university of Edinburgh in 1871, he became the first occupant of the chair.

  37. The innkeeper explained that the murdered man had been the sole occupant of that wing of the house until the previous night, when Mr. Ronald had occupied the room next to him.

  38. My dear Jack," he said, turning to me when I told him the name of the occupant of No.

  39. Then I distinguished it to be a big Limousine, the occupant of which opened the door, and she entered with a word of greeting.

  40. The previous occupant of that rock chamber was her lover.

  41. After dinner I was seated in front of the blazing fire in my room, smoking and reading the Courier, when I heard a man in heavy boots pass my door, and recognised his low, hacking cough as that of the occupant of No.

  42. The nervous animal, frightened at this sudden attack, sprang off sideways, dashing the light jagger against the curb, and sending its occupant headlong to the earth.

  43. Rufus Heath, whom the spontaneous and united voice of the people has designated as the next occupant of the gubernatorial chair of this State.

  44. In the eye of a good man--in the window of the palace of his soul--we behold an occupant who fears no duty.

  45. Many a store-room has not had an occupant in it for ten years who did not grow poorer.

  46. The occupant on rising should throw back the bed-clothes over the foot of the bed, or, indeed, take them off and hang them over a chair in the sunlight.

  47. The dresser should be so placed that the light falls on the face of the occupant of the room when he is looking into the mirror.

  48. It was a matter for his fervent thanksgiving that he had found himself the sole occupant of the tiny two-berthed apartment.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "occupant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.