How to Use occupation in a Sentence

occupation

noun

• 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
• Lawyers are only one occupation in the path of A.I. progress.
  — Steve Lohr, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• Israel maintains its occupation zone in southern Lebanon after pulling back from a line further north, controlling the area with the help of the South Lebanon Army.
  — Maeghan Dolph, Fox News, 22 Nov. 2023
• The answer to this week’s contest crossword is an occupation.
  — WSJ, 3 Aug. 2023
• For the tens of thousands of Ukrainians who survived nine months of occupation, evacuating the city is one of the war’s great cruelties.
  — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2022
• While the residents of Luch managed to outlast the occupation in the region, their village was ravaged.
  — Naomi Schanen, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
• The truth is that journalists came together because, in the early days of the war, when people feared a total occupation of the country, no one knew what to do.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2024
• These occupations will be changed by generative A.I., and all are likely to see job growth between now and 2030.
  — Michael Chui, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2023
• That means all countries have an interest in stopping the Israeli occupation.
  — Mohammad Javad Zarif, Foreign Affairs, 2 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024