How to Use unoccupied in a Sentence

unoccupied

adjective
  • A third of the beds at the hospital were unoccupied.
  • About half of the seats were unoccupied when the concert started.
  • The restaurant was unoccupied at the time of the fire and there were no injuries.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 13 May 2022
  • The car was found parked and unoccupied at the 49 Street Tavern.
    Brian Lisik, cleveland, 13 Aug. 2022
  • The clinic was closed and unoccupied at the time of the shooting.
    CBS News, 7 Jan. 2022
  • This is the second unoccupied house collapse of the day at the Seashore.
    Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2022
  • Police also noted that the homes were unoccupied at the time of the break-ins.
    Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The kindergarten was unoccupied at the time of the attack, and no bystanders were wounded in the blast.
    Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The 2-alarm blaze appears to have started in a unit that was unoccupied at the time.
    Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Jan. 2022
  • In fact, the entire area was then unoccupied for up to 600 years.
    Elizabeth Fernandez, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Both the Sentra and Malibu were unoccupied at the time.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The few unoccupied cots bared the bright logo of the American Red Cross.
    Rick Childress, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2022
  • At the home, a woman answered the door and claimed the house was unoccupied, police said.
    Henri Hollis, ajc, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The squad car was unoccupied and parked along La Grange Road, while the officer was on a call.
    Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2021
  • The car, a 2005 Honda sedan, was unoccupied when it was struck.
    Clifford Ward, chicagotribune.com, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The car was unoccupied with the keys still present, but some items were missing from the vehicle.
    Isha Trivedi, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The building was unoccupied at the time of the collapse and no injuries occurred.
    Tonya Alanez, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2022
  • The couple had no choice but to swim to Lanai, reaching land at an unoccupied beach around 1 p.m.
    Daniel Wu, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The two homes in Rodanthe were both unoccupied at the time, the agency said.
    Jamiel Lynch and Jennifer Henderson, CNN, 11 May 2022
  • But while the home was unoccupied, the woman broke in through the back door and moved in, furniture and all, Shelton said.
    Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The building in the 1300 block of H Street NE was unoccupied, a fire department spokesman said.
    Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
  • Ensure that doors and windows are locked when the home is unoccupied and at night.
    Anne Kniggendorf, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
  • See how one unoccupied house was swept into the ocean this week.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The opposing head of the table to the right was unoccupied, but looming on the wall behind it was a large-screen TV.
    William P. Barr, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The building has been unoccupied for more than three decades.
    al, 11 Jan. 2022
  • The office building and the single-family home were unoccupied at the time of the fire.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 June 2021
  • The crew did not ask to see his boarding pass but noted that the seat he at first took was listed as unoccupied.
    Patrick Smith, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The other two apartments in the building were unoccupied at the time of the explosion, Stats said.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2021
  • Police officers found a suspicious, unoccupied vehicle on a Forest Service road at the top of the hill off of Exit 49, near the location where the shooter is believed to have fired from.
    Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Police said the suspect also apparently fired a gunshot into an unoccupied car.
    Jim Salter, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2024

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