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Example sentences for "occupying"

Lexicographically close words:
occupies; occupieth; occupy; occupye; occupyed; occur; occured; occuring; occurred; occurrence
  1. Mr. and Mrs. Ensign made their home in Simsbury, occupying the house on the hill now occupied by their daughter, Mrs. Robert Darling.

  2. His discipline in his family was very strict, though kind, the rod always occupying a conspicuous place over the mantel for the admonition of any child inclined to disobedience.

  3. From this point they were routed by the smart action of the Norfolks, but they continually reappeared, there being some five thousand of them, under Grobler, occupying four different positions, with a frontage some three miles long.

  4. He found many ways of occupying himself about the old place.

  5. This was a roomy stone house occupying a sightly corner in the West End,--that sharply defined residential area of Vancouver which real estate agents unctuously speak of as "select.

  6. Had Mrs. Sedley been a woman of energy, she would have exerted it after her husband's ruin and, occupying a large house, would have taken in boarders.

  7. The condition was becoming more and more like a vicious circle; for Radzivill might summon against the voevoda of Vityebsk Swedish forces which were occupying the country by degrees, but that would be to acknowledge his own weakness.

  8. Among the many camps, parties, and foreign troops occupying at that moment the fields of the Commonwealth, there is not a camp, a party, a body of troops which would not count him as the greatest and most malignant enemy.

  9. Regiments of cavalry and infantry deployed, occupying more and more space.

  10. Your grace assures me," said he, "that with these forces it is possible to break the army occupying Uistsie?

  11. Forty dollars carries one from Livingston on the railroad to Mammoth Hot Springs and then around the park, occupying five and a quarter days.

  12. They usually, as far as I could see, consist of a single room occupying the entire house.

  13. There are also many less important ceremonies occupying four days, two days, and one day in their performance.

  14. Only four could be seated at the same time around the table, consequently there were five successive tables served, occupying altogether about two hours in eating.

  15. Upon the officers entering and occupying two pews on the left hand side of the church, that portion of the congregation occupying the same range of seats as ourselves very abruptly and hurriedly sought seats on the other side.

  16. Faith is dead, but the corpse still remains with the appearance of life, occupying the same place and obstructing the pathway.

  17. The decoration of the foyer of the New Opera House at Paris was entrusted to him--an enormous work, occupying a total surface of 500 sq.

  18. The prevailing character of the Austrian dominions is mountainous or hilly, the plains not occupying more than a fifth part of the whole surface.

  19. He survived his fall a few years, during this time occupying himself with his literary and scientific works, and vainly hoping for political employment.

  20. BAN'TAM, a residency occupying the whole of the W.

  21. Immediately occupying the principal streets, he drove the citizens with pointed cannon into their dwellings, there to await their destiny.

  22. The disadvantage of not occupying this post in time, was quickly and sensibly felt.

  23. Johnson, and others, and presidents of the Royal Academy; the last occupying a spot which is styled “Painters’ Corner.

  24. Here is the scene of constant merriment afternoon and evening; grand music, Sousa occupying the grand-stand the week prior to our arrival.

  25. Bukkur is visible from it, apparently occupying a hill almost to the extreme right of a low range running south-west; it is seven or eight coss distant.

  26. Moleem is a place of some size on the left bank of the river, occupying the side of a hill of considerable height.

  27. There is not a single conspicuous building in it, with the exception of the lower Bala Hissar and a mosque of small size on the right bank of the river, occupying an open space near a garden, which alone renders it distinct.

  28. The vegetation was beautiful, owing to the quantity of water on the road, a stream occupying each hollow, round many of which we wound.

  29. The one we now inhabit, being the best looking and occupying a deep valley, is surrounded with much terrace cultivation.

  30. The plants occupying the banks and the bed of the river are the same, viz.

  31. Hizarnow is a large place, curiously occupying receding slopes of the base of a low range of hills, but it must be dreadfully hot.

  32. Oaks, Pines, Rhododendrons occupying the more exposed faces, and the usual humid jungle characterising aspects not so much exposed.

  33. This difference is caused chiefly by the difference in temperature occupying the difference in latitude.

  34. While I had the honor of occupying a seat in the House when questions were raised which touched upon religious matters, I abstained from uttering one word.

  35. I have read within the last few days words spoken, not by members of no consequence, but by members occupying high position in this House, which make me wonder if this is the House of Commons to which I aspired so much.

  36. We were occupying the quarters normally assigned to recruits.

  37. Occupying the stretch of country to the south of the Algonquins was the famous race known as the Iroquoian Family.

  38. As yet European nations were backward, not only in navigation, but in the industries and commerce which supply the real motive for occupying new lands.

  39. But the castle occupying a fine strategic position soon attracted townsfolk, who built their houses 'neath its shadow.

  40. In the same neighbourhood is Allington Castle, an ivy-mantled ruin, another example of vanished glory, only two tenements occupying the princely residence of the Wyatts, famous in the history of State and Letters.

  41. It is characterised as a genus by the following assemblage of structural features:--It has only eight to ten teeth occupying the anterior part of the jaws only.

  42. The lower jaw has a pair {280} of dependent processes near the symphysis, which suggest processes occupying a corresponding position in Dinoceras.


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