Examples of unoccupied in a Sentence
About half of the seats were unoccupied when the concert started.
A third of the beds at the hospital were unoccupied.
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During the team’s first home game in a week, the lower bowl was dotted with unoccupied seats deep into the first quarter.
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Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
Dixon exited the passenger side of the minivan, ran to an unoccupied Wauwatosa police squad car, and got in through an open driver's side door.
—Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 9 Feb. 2026
Multiple aircraft, cutters and small boats searched 1,047 square miles over 24 hours, finding debris near the location where the EPIRB was activated, along with one body and an unoccupied life raft that had been deployed.
—Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 4 Feb. 2026
Also in North Carolina, officials said an unoccupied beachfront house in the Buxton community on Cape Hatteras collapsed in heavy surf Sunday.
—Adrian Sainz, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2026
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Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
Dixon exited the passenger side of the minivan, ran to an unoccupied Wauwatosa police squad car, and got in through an open driver's side door.
—Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 9 Feb. 2026
Multiple aircraft, cutters and small boats searched 1,047 square miles over 24 hours, finding debris near the location where the EPIRB was activated, along with one body and an unoccupied life raft that had been deployed.
—Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 4 Feb. 2026
Also in North Carolina, officials said an unoccupied beachfront house in the Buxton community on Cape Hatteras collapsed in heavy surf Sunday.
—Adrian Sainz, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2026
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“Unoccupied.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unoccupied. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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unoccupied
adjective
un·oc·cu·pied
ˌən-ˈäk-yə-ˌpīd 
ˈən-
1
: not busy : unemployed
2
: not occupied : empty
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