How to Use occupation in a Sentence

occupation

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  • The offices are ready for occupation.
  • Some evidence of human occupation was found in these caves.
  • Swimming was their main occupation at summer camp.
  • He is thinking about changing occupations and becoming a police officer.
  • There is, at the time the book is set, no sense of an occupation.
    — Daniel Drake, The New York Review of Books, 5 Nov. 2022
  • The accords failed to end Israel’s siege of Gaza and occupation of the West Bank.
    — Caise D. Hassan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The main one is Hezbollah in Lebanon, formed in the 1980s to fight the Israeli occupation in southern Lebanon.
    — Peter Kenyon, NPR, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Black+Decker performed well in our tests, as shown by its occupation of the top two spots.
    — Car and Driver, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Lawyers are only one occupation in the path of A.I. progress.
    — Steve Lohr, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023
  • For an oblate, prayer was an occupation, both a way to fill the day and a mystical way of healing the world.
    — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Following the occupation, the Gertlers’ names were removed from the gallery and its donor board.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 30 Nov. 2024
  • But all of these options fall very short of ending the occupation.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2023
  • That is because a slew of them came from Italy and had little to do over the summer following the occupation.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Russian forces have controlled the plant since the early days of the occupation and have pushed the staff to work with them, in some cases using torture.
    — Ian Lovett, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The toll of nearly nine months of occupation may be felt for years to come — but for now at least, there is celebration.
    — Marc Smith, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2022
  • By the fourth century, Roman occupation in Egypt meant that Opet was no longer a thing.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
  • But the agony of the occupation hasn't ended for everyone.
    — Sam Mednick, ajc, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The event, known as the Alabama Gates occupation, lasted for four days.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The young and old are piled in together -- pets fill the floor -- all with stories of life under Russian occupation.
    — Britt Clennett, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The villages around it had endured weeks of occupation.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The unemployment rate for tech occupations rose to 2.3% in June.
    — Angus Loten, WSJ, 7 July 2023
  • Despite the significance of the Battle of Puebla, the win there did not end the French occupation of Mexico.
    — The Arizona Republic, 26 Apr. 2024
  • The church has been part of village life since the beginning of Russian occupation, one of the few places, people said, where Unangam Tunuu was welcome.
    — WIRED, 15 July 2023
  • The details of the landscape and flora transported me back to the days before the occupation by Europeans.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Phone networks went down in many of the areas that came under Russian occupation last year.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Jan. 2023
  • So for his entire life, he’s seen rapping as an actual job occupation in the city.
    — Maurice Garland, SPIN, 19 Dec. 2024
  • During the Russian occupation of Bakhmut in 2023, the Wagner Group set up its headquarters in the tunnels of the winery.
    — Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2023
  • At City College, students engaged in a two-week occupation of the campus.
    — TIME, 9 May 2024
  • They were put in charge of an effort to prepare populations in areas at risk of Russian occupation for partisan warfare.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Causes of Repetitive Strain Injury A wide range of activities and occupations can cause overuse of a tendon, muscle, or ligament.
    — Mark Gurarie, Health, 13 Feb. 2025

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