It pre-occupies their thoughts, creates artificial needs, and draws a curtain between them and the world.
Great oceanic highs are built up over the South Atlantic and South Pacific and a permanent low occupies the center of our continent.
The nitrogen occupies nearly eight-tenths of a given bulk of air, the oxygen two-tenths, and the moisture anything up to one-twentieth.
There is only one embryo, which occupies the body and one of the cornua of the uterus.
It occupies in Cholaepus Hoffmanni about four-fifths of the surface of the chorion, and is composed of about thirty-four discoid lobes.
This form of placenta occupies a broad zone of the chorion, leaving the two poles free.
The yolk-cells of the Amphibian embryo form a comparatively small mass, and are therefore rapidly enveloped; while in the case of the Elasmobranch embryo, owing to the greater mass of the yolk, the same process occupies a long period.
In Apes and Man the allantois spreads over the whole inner surface of the subzonal membrane; the placenta is on the ventral side of the embryo, and occupies only a small part of the surface of the allantois.
A similar arrangement is found in the Hedgehog (Erinaceus Europaeus) (Rolleston), in which the placenta occupies the typical dorsal position.
Owing to the development of the cerebral rudiment the posterior part of the fore-brain no longer occupies the front position (fig.
It occupies a part of the former peninsula of Xiphonia, now a small island, connected with the mainland by a bridge.
Exceptions are the forest lands of the Karst region, where medium-sized trees and underwood occupy 80%, and of Dalmatia, where underwood occupies 92.
The state house, built of granite quarried in the vicinity, occupies a commanding site along the south border of the city, and in it is the state library.
The main range, that known as the Great Atlas, occupies a central position in the system, and is by far the longest and loftiest chain.
Augusta occupies the site of the Indian village, Koussinoc, at which the Plymouth Colony established a trading post about 1628.
The detail of a support is not necessary except when the artillery is separated from the main body or occupies a position in which its flanks are not protected.
If the enemy occupies the foreground with detachments, the covering troops must drive them back.
SLANG Although native scholars in China have not deemed it worth while to compile such a work as the "Slang Dictionary," it is no less a fact that slang occupies quite as important a position in Chinese as in any language of the West.
The passage from Barbadoes to Antigua seldom occupies more than three days, the wind being mostly in that direction.
The Egyptian master stood between his slave and their God: and how strikingly and awfully true is it, that the American master occupies the like position!
A high-born white man, the Attorney General, now occupies the same chair which this colored member vacated.
As a rule, it does not build a nest, but occupies one, generally at the cost of a battle, belonging to one of a colony of rooks.
Sculpture grown heterogeneous in respect of the variety of real and ideal subjects with which it occupies itself.
While among the simple tribes to whom it was first known, caoutchouc caused but few changes, among ourselves the changes have been so many and varied that the history of them occupies a volume.
Repeating over Lorimer's phrase, "It is he who occupies the house!
It acted somewhat differently towards strangers, and seemed not to like them to sit in the hammock which was slung in the room, leaping up, trying to bite, and otherwise annoying them.
It has not hitherto been shown satisfactorily to what use it applies the leaves.
The negroes themselves behaved with great propriety, but seemed moved more particularly by the pomp, the gilding, the dresses, and the general display.
The largest and most interesting portion of the Brazilian mammal fauna is arboreal in its habits; this feature of the animal denizens of these forests I have already alluded to.
I have known instances of attachment and fidelity on the part of Indians towards their masters, but these are exceptional cases.
It soon becomes tame, and walks about the floors of houses picking up scraps of food or catching insects, which it secures by walking gently to the place where they settle, and spearing them with its long, slender beak.
In some parts of the road ferns were conspicuous objects.
God occupies Himself with our very failure and follies, our waywardness and wilfulness, our sins and shortcomings, in order to deliver us from them!
Nothing is so rash or so contrary to principle, as to make a flank march before an army in position, especially when this army occupies heights at the foot of which you are forced to defile.
When an armyoccupies a fixed camp, it is necessary to be well supplied with provisions and ammunition, or at least that these should be within certain reach and easily obtained.
A kind of amiable Arabian Nights genius, who occupies himself in making mortals happy.
No one has ever accused him of being the fortunate victim of circumstances which carried him to the pre-eminent rank he occupies among Englishmen, although such an opinion might readily be formed from a personal study of the man.
Drinking is a second diversion which occupies much of the time of the average citizen, because of the great heat and the lack of amusement.
The Founder's Tomb# occupies a bay on the northern side of the sanctuary.
The figure occupies the central position in the higher storey, with three arched recesses on either side (the middle one in each case containing a window), diminishing in height outwards, in harmony with the lines of the roof.
Another famous lake, which also occupies part of a basin due to faulting, is Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, near Truckee, California.
A lake of very hot water now occupies the bottom of the great new crater.
Such unconscious activities occur as side-activities, carried on while something elseoccupies attention, or as part-activities that go on while attention is directed to the total performance of which they are parts.
Worry is fundamentally due to the necessity of doing something with any matter that occupies our mind; it is an imaginative substitute for real action.
The fact to be translated is that, while several mental activities may go on at once, only one occupies the focus of attention.
Naturalists tell us that in the scale of living creatures, arranged according to size, the common beetle occupies the middle point, the smallest living creature being as much smaller as the largest is larger than it.
The place which Man occupies in creation has been variously estimated in different religious systems and by different religious thinkers.
The great mass of mountains which occupies the centre of the island rises in many jagged and stupendous peaks to the height of nearly 5,000 feet.
In time of war the Fadhli sultan comes andoccupies one of these dars.
He occupies the place, but he doesn't fill it, and he has guests from the neighbouring inns with ulsters and Baedekers.
Known from the type locality and Bonfim; probably occupies valleys of Jacuipe and the Itapicurú rivers and littoral between them.
This subject occupies about a third of the Epistle.
This subject occupies more than half the chapter and is of very great interest, as being our chief source of information respecting the treatment of widows in the early Church.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "occupies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
