occupy

Example Sentences

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As a psychologist in the occupied West Bank, I have spent my career sitting across from children carrying burdens no child should ever know — lives shaped not by playgrounds or classrooms, but by constant fear.

From Los Angeles Times

What can he possibly mean by parading himself in our colonies and our possessions in the degrading position he occupies?'

From BBC

This is especially true of a highly-respected organization such as Gallup, which has, for almost nine decades, occupied an outsized role in American political life.

From Salon

He moved his operation way out to Burbank, to land now occupied by Warner Bros. studios.

From Los Angeles Times

Often described as India's first English-language feature, Annie occupies a singular place in the country's cinema history: local in texture yet cosmopolitan in voice; modest in scale yet exacting in its writing.

From BBC