6 sentences with 'occupies'

Example sentences and phrases with the word occupies and other words derived from it.

« While cosmology now occupies a prominent place in physics research, in the early 1960s it was an exotic corner of science and had no place at Oxford. »
« Each bee in the hive occupies less than one cubic centimetre of space, and it is practically impossible to find infectious diseases among them, unlike what can happen in anthills and other insects, prone as humans are to diseases caused by pathogens. »
« Jupiter's satellite Io has no water: what water there was boiled away and evaporated long ago. Jupiter occupies a large part of the Io sky; if we were standing on that scorching surface (not a very captivating prospect, by the way) and could look up. »
« There is a 130-kilometre crater that occupies more than a quarter of the diameter of this Saturnian moon - thought to be the largest ratio of the size of a crater to the surface area of the satellite that shelters it. »
« The air or atmosphere occupies all the apparently empty spaces on the surface of the Earth and also in the tissues that form the parts of plants, animals and man; »
« Like Jamestown, Plymouth occupies an iconic place in American national memory. »

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