7 sentences with 'occupy'
Example sentences and phrases with the word occupy and other words derived from it.
• « This resort would occupy a beautiful 5.5-kilometer stretch of beach known as El Asperillo, where the dunes reach the height of a five-story building. »
• « Moreover, not only were African states able to fight Europeans successfully, but African diseases made it impossible for large numbers of Europeans to colonise or occupy much of African territory. »
• « Strangely, from a present-day perspective, however, there is no new technology to speak of, and the political and social order remains intact: a king, nobility, clergy and commoners occupy their respective places in society - they simply interact more "rationally". »
• « Charles X fled into exile in England, the last Bourbon monarch to occupy the throne of France, and his cousin Louis Philippe of the Orléans branch of the royal line became king. »
• « There would be no property restrictions on voting - although women remained disenfranchised, as everywhere else - and never again would a monarch occupy the throne of France simply because of his dynastic birth. »
• « We walked hand in hand and, when we reached the car, she came up to me to be kissed. I gladly obliged. But it was only a moment of solace: I was only a friend and never managed to occupy an important place in her heart. »
• « Shortly after the end of the Civil War in the United States, Northern troops continued to occupy Richmond, Virginia. »