Use "occupied" in a sentence

1. She had to admit, she occupied elite strata in the society of the Highland Elves

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2. As grandparent we can participate in their development and also keep ourselves occupied

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3. the body which it has occupied

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4. occupied the frontage of the building

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5. Instead she'd occupied herself with the grunt work, finishing up the full scale fabricator and getting more mining bots deployed

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6. He shouldn't complain, he occupied a position a bit above common status here in the afterlife, as he had in life

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7. ’ Her mind busily occupied in wondering precisely what ‘helping out a bit’ comprised exactly and whether the authorities knew about it

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8. ’ Kara said absently, her mind occupied in trying to recall any detail of the two men that might give a clue as to why they had attacked her

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9. It had been hard visiting Abery before but Joris hadn’t been there and she’d been able to withdraw into herself to some extent … and the European trip had been hectic, demanding her full attention … and in London afterwards she’d been occupied in achieving Joris’s purpose … and the trip across had kept her mind busy, first with JJ and then Iain … and even coming back, being at The Centre and travelling on the wasteg … that too had been manageable … but now … with no purpose to drive her, no solitude to enfold her and no Joris but only the shadow of his memory imprinted in JJ’s face and voice … she felt naked, vulnerable and viciously exposed to the scouring of her grief

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10. Pippa was an accomplished singer and Liesse a clown … she had a feeling she’d seen him perform once, when she was a child … he must be nearly seventy now and mostly occupied in organising troupes of travelling players

11. She took a wherry across the river to the Southwark side where the warehouse was situated, strolling along the lanes behind the Shakespearean theatre where herb gardens, supplying the nearby centre for the Herbmasters, occupied neat little patches of ground carefully tended by a cadre of gotteswomen specially trained for the purpose, the purple outfits of their calling showing up clearly as they toiled amongst the neat rows of plants

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12. all of them occupied the weekends when we should have been

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13. The local people bustle about, the women – as women anywhere, obviously shopping while herding small children and the men either busily rushing around or lounging staring into space – I watch as a woman with two children makes desperate attempts to stop the elder of the two under her care from pinching some fruit from a stall … the little devil waits until she is occupied in conversation with the stall owner before sneakily nicking an apple and ramming it into his pocket

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14. They have occupied a moment of my time

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15. I kept myself occupied as best I could by trying to name the trees that we past and by crunching boiled sweets

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16. She found their cabin occupied by Alan, Nuran and a stack of youth magazines from which they were reading jokes to each other

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17. Some showed Maria with politicians and officers but most were old sepia tints of her with armed carpenters and farmers, moustachioed heroes from the mountains and valleys of occupied Crete

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18. So we married … it wasn’t as simple adapting to the physical side as I thought it would be but I got pregnant fairly quickly and it was easy to persuade Alastair that any physical relationship was unwise during the pregnancy … since then Alastair and I have occupied separate rooms

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19. "I think she is otherwise occupied at the moment

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20. Above the massive fireplace that occupied one whole wall, was a portrait of Lord Boras in his youth, an imposing figure even then; the artist capturing the darkness in his eye

21. “We could detect nothing of Kassidor but its presence,” Daedelus said, “until Yellelle brought back the detailed records from your ship, but we do know that the space occupied by the souls from Kassidor is about four times as large as that occupied by souls from Earth

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22. Within two months they had weeded out the worst of vermin that had occupied that Hold and in the process gained the respect of the townspeople

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23. They returned to the cabin in silence; each occupied with their own thoughts about the

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24. She hoped that would keep him occupied for the rest of the day

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25. an open area of grass on their left, partially occupied by a small

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26. eating, and most of the other tables were now occupied

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27. were permanently occupied by a staff of drivers and mechanics

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28. The first room they came to was the one which Kev had occupied

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29. Billy shrugs off the press pack but not the inner loathing around half three, and the innocent are occupied with the wasting of time

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30. ‘There were six rooms occupied in all

31. vanished like the ghosts that occupied it

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32. They drove past the tiny, not-quite-permanent fair that occupied a

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33. they were occupied, but not with paying tenants

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34. She knew she was guilty of nothing when she occupied this body

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35. Eventually, I also learned that he and Karen occupied separate rooms (at her request) and that their marriage was something of a sham

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36. from it and several bird nests occupied its outer corners

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37. His mind ran at full speed whether it was occupied or not, yet

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38. It were other thoughts, however, that occupied the moments before his drifting off to sleep that night and even with all his experience, acquired knowledge and skills, he could not unravel the conundrum laid before him

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39. and sipped his beer through a long straw making sure that his hands were occupied

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40. Just forty-five or so steps away was School House, and on the first floor, up the wide stairs from the common room were the halls of rooms occupied by the Hundred and the Sixth Form, mostly

41. The first term was challenging, not so much for the studies, but the school's culture, events, activities and clubs kept him so occupied and pulled this way and that, he was ready for the break of term

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42. Our table now held a lot of the old faces that occupied my table at the

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43. She also rode the wave of change to set up permanent residence in Bungalow Seven of the Lodges, the compliment of Bungalow Six already occupied by Sarah Bunker

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44. Twenty or so others occupied the

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45. They occupied four state rooms in two adjacent cars

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46. So again she shouted "Hello" but still nothing it seemed they were to occupied with each other to acknowledge her

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47. But telling me about your likes and keeping yourself occupied for outdoors can make my feelings at ease

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48. Jim caught her up and carried her into the drug store, to sit her on the stool she’d occupied earlier

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49. Otto’s team occupied most of the ‘tourist’ space on the ship

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50. we occupied), a swimming pool (that was frustratingly

51. that it was already occupied

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52. successively occupied by monks, the Papacy, and even

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53. Whilst Lindy and her mother were occupied with

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54. More heads are occupied in inventing the most proper machinery for executing the work of each, and it is, therefore, more likely to be invented

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55. It was a leisure stroll through hand-carved tunnels occupied only by vermin and the dead

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56. When the most fertile and best situated lands have been all occupied, less profit can be made by the cultivation of what is inferior both in soil and situation, and less interest can be afforded for the stock which is so employed

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57. means it was something that occupied much of their time

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58. of occupied castles increased markedly

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59. There was no way he could squint his eyes, even on a Nightday, that would show him anything in common with the rooms the clients occupied

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60. the other, whose whole attention, from morning till night, is commonly occupied in

61. He didn't pause in the entry but went straight up to the second floor and let himself into the room that had been occupied by Alfred and Viktor until the previous day

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62. She had copied large portions of her own mind into space that was supposed to be occupied by cherub code

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63. His fear of falling had disappeared, his mind occupied only with worry, both for Nathalia and for the Red Mage as he battled in the sky

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64. This seemed to be the only part of the immediate area that wasn't occupied by something pertaining to the care and feeding of floaters

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65. The chairs were occupied, the people they had come to see

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66. the Goths have spread Christianity in western occupied

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67. It clearly demonstrates, first, their great abundance in proportion to that of corn, and, consequently, the great extent of the land which they occupied in proportion to what was occupied by corn ; and, secondly, the low value of this land in proportion to that of corn land, and, consequently, the uncultivated and unimproved state of the far greater part of the lands of the country

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68. It seemed that Vorous was otherwise occupied

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69. continuous motion, occupied the southern

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70. army occupied this mountain area during the second

71. But a banking company, which lends money to perhaps five hundred different people, and of which the attention is continually occupied by objects of a very different kind, can have no regular information concerning the conduct and circumstances of the greater part of its debtors, beyond what its own books afford it

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72. They were occupied countries

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73. Greece was an occupied country and it was

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74. solely occupied the mind, fade at this junction before the journey

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75. There arises, in consequence, a competition between different capitals, the owner of one endeavouring to get possession of that employment which is occupied by another; but, upon most occasions, he can hope to justle that other out of this employment by no other means but by dealing upon more reasonable terms

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76. If little improvement was to be expected from such great proprietors, still less was to be hoped for from those who occupied the land under them

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77. It was properly the proprietor himself, therefore, that in this case occupied his own lands, and cultivated them by his own bondmen

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78. Land occupied by such tenants is properly cultivated at the expense of the proprietors, as much as that occupied by slaves

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79. In France, where five parts out of six of the whole kingdom are said to be still occupied by this species of cultivators, the proprietors complain, that their metayers take every opportunity of employing their master's cattle rather in carriage than in cultivation ; because, in the one case, they get the whole profits to themselves, in the other they share them with their landlord

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80. It’s been occupied by bandits for too long and we could really use the position

81. “Don’t fret, he’s occupied at the moment and asked that you wait in this room until he’s finished

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82. She was momentarily heartened to see that Trumpet no longer occupied the ram pen

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83. Thoughts of the news from the courier occupied his mind, as well as intermingled thoughts of a distant home

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84. These great and important services foreign trade is continually occupied in performing to all the different countries between which it is carried on

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85. On the one hand, he was relieved to have something more to go on, some better indication of what accounted for her being occupied away from the Guild

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86. As the Emperor with the careworn face smiled in return, in understanding, it was almost as if they occupied their own space in time

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87. Miss Mimsy, the little seamstress who occupied the ground floor parlour, knew that every evening as he returned from his offices, Mr Snickerty would call for his supper, like the Merry Old King Cole of the nursery rhyme

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88. The other side of the room was completely occupied by electronic equipment of the entertainment variety

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89. town, and most of the houses were occupied

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90. It gave him new insight to the people who had occupied this land

91. Due to a flight rescheduling, Mom and Dad arrive home early and find their house fully occupied with paying guests

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92. I did everything I was ordered to do with a sense of urgency, and I would help the other men when not occupied with some job of my own

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93. Such trades were, at Athens and Rome, all occupied by the slaves of the rich, who exercised them for the benefit of their masters, whose wealth, power, and protection, made it almost impossible for a poor freeman to find a market for his work, when it came into competition with that of the slaves of the rich

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94. In the progress of the Roman greatness, the consul was too much occupied with the political affairs of the state, to attend to the administration of justice

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95. But again neither of them were occupied

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96. ’ As Roidon walked out of the conference room he wondered whether this latest mission he’d been given as something to keep him occupied and out of trouble

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97. It turned out that the vessel responsible for the incident had been stolen shortly before the attack and then dumped on the surface near a mining outpost that had not been occupied for a few years

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98. All the time they were each looking for some indication of a hiding place, demon activity, a call for help, or anything that would signify the area was occupied

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99. When the cut-throat isn't occupied in

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100. When the landlord chose to occupy himself a part of his own lands, the rent might be valued according to an equitable arbitration of the farmers and landlords in the neighbourhood, and a moderate abatement of the tax might be granted to him, in the same manner as in the Venetian territory, provided the rent of the lands which he occupied did not exceed a certain sum