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Sentences ending with occupy

Presently he led the way up the stone stairs and showed me the room I was to occupy. [9]
I fear this loses you the middle position I desired you to occupy. [7]
At Hard Times, La., the river is two miles west of the region it used to occupy. [5]
She was a kind, sensible woman, and though she at first exclaimed over their heedlessness, she addressed them with maternal tenderness and showed them to the room they were to occupy. [10]
At the great hop fields they lodge all together in big barracks, and they make lively for the time whatever farmhouse they occupy. [4]
The queen, shrugging her shoulders, and, as it would seem, by no means agreeably surprised at something, whispered to the chamberlain, who then indicated to each guest the place he was to occupy. [10]

Short sentences using occupy

For they occupy the pulpit. [5]

More example sentences with the word occupy in them

I beg of you, I beg of you," he repeated, "to occupy the position and prepare for an attack. [2]
Thus, after seven years of vicissitudes, ended a "pleasure trip" to the silver mines of Nevada which had originally been intended to occupy only three months. [5]
And then I will occupy a back seat and enjoy the cordial applause. [5]
He--or preferably they --were asked to occupy the seat of honor at the foot of the table. [5]
They are in utter darkness as to his opinions on any of the questions of policy which occupy the public attention. [7]
Well, we always travel as one person, since we occupy but one seat; so we save half the fare. [5]
Each drop tried to spread out and occupy as much space as possible, but others striving to do the same compressed it, sometimes destroyed it, and sometimes merged with it. [2]
I happen, temporarily, to occupy this big White House. [7]
I was intending to occupy it with the whole command, but that is not necessary now. [5]
We are invited to occupy a room in the sumptuous new hotel (the "Krantz" where we are to live during the Fall and Winter) and view it, and we shall go. [5]
Val was dear to her--her brother Val; but she realised now that another had come who would occupy a place that neither father, nor brother, nor any other could fill. [11]
I beg you to come and help occupy it a few days the next time you visit the U.S. [5]
But I am tired of having the under-world still occupy so much room in the newspapers. [4]
I should think there would be other things to occupy the mind of the King of kings. [10]
At present rates, the people who now occupy it are of no more value than I am; but in my time they would have been worth not less than five hundred dollars apiece. [5]
Let Glossop occupy the kopje with his squadrons, while we take the trenches. [11]
The ladies of the Hawaiian capital learned too late the right way to occupy a horse--too late to get much benefit from it. [5]
Mr. Augustus Harris, the enterprising and celebrated manager of Drury Lane Theatre, had sent us an invitation to occupy a box, having eight seats, at the representation of "Carmen. [6]
In the field the Dwarf had no assignment; that is to say, he was not under orders to occupy any particular place, therefore he chose his place for himself, and went ahead of Joan and made a road for her. [5]
Upon consultation with the drovers, they said they'd just as soon occupy an apartment by themselves, and we gave up their society for the night. [4]
The effort of the besiegers was to spy out unguarded places, and occupy the attention of the garrison so that a comrade might leap over the wall and set his foot on the hearth. [10]
He has abundant talents--quite enough to occupy all his time without devoting any to temper. [7]
And the judges, so long even as men only occupy the bench, will no doubt reverse it when the logical march of events forces upon them the question whether the wife may open her husband's letters. [4]
So, at a single sitting I began and finished a revision which I had supposed would occupy 3 or 4. days and leave me mentally and physically fagged out at the end. [5]
What he would say, he was not thinking of, but the position he would occupy before the audience. [4]
Even then I saw fields of work which would occupy my mind, and such skill as I had, for many a year to come. [11]
They occupy the same room, and the house is full of men and maid servants. [10]
He was a retired lawyer, with some means, who took an interest in town affairs to occupy his time. [9]
Long before the rest of the house was stirring, Krool wandered hither and thither through the luxurious rooms, vainly endeavouring to occupy himself with his master's clothes, boots, and belongings. [11]
She will occupy Queen Mary's seat at my side. [10]
My friend the Professor (who, as well as my friend the Poet, is unavoidably absent on this interesting occasion) has given me reason to suppose that he would occupy my empty chair about the first of January next. [6]
Fulkerson called that pretty tall for an old fellow who used to bewail the want of pigs and chickens to occupy his mind. [8]
Other people have preceded you half an hour to scramble for impossible places and lose their tempers, but you can take your time; the courier has secured your seats for you, and you can occupy them at your leisure. [5]
And the gorgeous possibilities of that great domain straightway began to occupy his imagination to such a degree that he could scarcely manage to keep even enough of his attention upon the Colonel's talk to retain the general run of what he was saying. [5]
While the quoted paragraph about the Procession seems to indicate that Mrs. Eddy is expecting to occupy the First Place in it, that expectation is not definitely avowed. [5]
Bennigsen on his own authority ordered the troops to occupy the high ground. [2]
You can find out who lived in many a house in Pompeii by the carved stone door-plates affixed to them: and in the same way you can tell who they were that occupy the tombs. [5]
It is something on the question of time to remember that it cannot be known who is next to occupy the position I now hold, nor what he will do. [7]
The mighty Mosque of Omar, and the paved court around it, occupy a fourth part of Jerusalem. [5]
It reminded him of Hades and a troop of descending spirits; but he would not allow anything but what was pleasant to occupy his mind or eye. [10]
He had thought of both these honours, but there was so much to occupy him--he never had a moment to himself, except at night; and then there was planning and accounting to do, his foremen to see, or some knotty thing to disentangle. [11]
Allow me to occupy your time a moment with what he said. [7]
The vice-King will occupy the village and cross by its three bridges, advancing to the same heights as Morand's and Gibrard's divisions, which under his leadership will be directed against the redoubt and come into line with the rest of the forces. [2]
Nearly all families occupy one floor of a building, renting just rooms enough for the family, so that their apartments are not elastic enough to take in strangers, even if they desire to do so. [4]
The position we occupy is a strong one, and while they are marching to go round me on the right they will expose a flank to me. [2]
Ebers continued to occupy his chair at the Leipsic University, but, while fulfilling admirably the many duties of a German professorship, he found time to write several of his novels. [10]
The house we occupy has one. [5]
I will nevertheless occupy a good portion of your time here in drawing your attention to certain points in it. [7]
While I had not proposed to myself on this occasion to say much on that subject, yet, as the question was asked me, I thought I would occupy perhaps five minutes in saying something in regard to it. [7]
While I had not proposed to myself on this occasion to say much on that subject, yet as the question was asked me I thought I would occupy perhaps five minutes in saying something in regard to it. [7]
And the Russians, not having time to begin a general engagement, withdrew their left wing from the position they had intended to occupy and took up a new position which had not been foreseen and was not fortified. [2]
If they should not be able to effect this, they will at least occupy a portion of the enemy's forces, and prevent them from reinforcing Vicksburg. [7]
It is precisely no other than the putting of that most unphilosophical proposition, that two bodies can occupy the same space at the same time. [7]
Our garcon had never heard of the prisoner; but he knew about the gendarmes who now occupy the castle. [4]
It will take me some little time to read it, but I believe I will occupy the time that way. [7]
We have so many light and playful talks over the teacups that some readers may be surprised to find us taking up the most serious and solemn subject which can occupy a human intelligence. [6]
Attend to me--the maniple will occupy the castle and shoot down on the heathen from hence; when they come carry me into the tower. [10]
He at once made him acquainted with Gay Lussac, the famous Parisian chemist, and Liebig was thus placed on the road to the lofty position which he was afterwards to occupy in all the departments of science. [10]
But it no longer stood in the old place--the owner of the house, a rich matron, who had been compelled to occupy an attic-room, while strangers were quartered in her residence, had taken charge of the pale orphan and the boxes after Florette's death. [10]
With her the least worldly of men would occupy a most brilliant position in society. [2]
When she at last offered him her hand for a firm alliance, his brain was fevered, and it seemed a great honour when she asked eagerly what would occupy him in the immediate future. [10]
I can not keep from talking about my horses, because I have a very long and tedious journey before me, and they naturally occupy my thoughts about as much as matters of apparently much greater importance. [5]
The great object is to occupy the enemy to prevent his making large detachments or distant raids, and to injure him all you can with the least injury to yourself. [7]
Now the marquise is to occupy it, because country air would benefit her. [10]
Only one who is free from such giddiness dare to occupy such a place. [10]
Successive invaders, as in Rome, overrun and occupy the town. [4]
On the voyage I had many sober thoughts of my own to occupy me of the terrible fate, from which, by Divine inter position, I had been rescued; of the home I had left behind. [9]
When I see how unerringly they did select and occupy the eligible places, I think they were moved by a sort of inspiration. [4]
His rifle, his horse, his boots, his blanket, the commissariat, a dry bit of ground to sleep on--these are the things which occupy his mind. [11]
It was Mr. Henderson, and there was at least pretense enough of business to occupy us, with Mr. Morgan, the greater part of the day. [4]
Yes, it would have been delightful to see them grow up and occupy the throne, but serious, decisive doubts soon blended even with an idea so rich in joy. [10]
A man who has passed his eighth decade feels as if he were already in the antechamber of the apartments which he may be called to occupy in the house of many mansions. [6]
If our people had the arranging of it, we should charge extra for securing the place, and then the road would suffer no loss if the purchaser did not occupy it. [5]
But now he had other and nearer things to occupy him, for in the fierce struggle towards the shore Lacey found himself failing, and falling down the stream. [11]
Some books which had been my father's were stored in shelves in the room I used to occupy when at Cambridge. [6]
The party who had arrived by water were not allowed to occupy the tents which had been pitched for them not far from his, because he desired to be alone, quite alone, with his anguish of spirit. [10]
R. W. Gilder had arranged for them to occupy, for the summer, a cottage on his place at Tyringham, in the Berkshire Hills. [5]
But into the Government's calculations had not entered the possibility of a single-barrelled speech which should occupy the entire time-limit of the setting, and also get itself delivered in spite of all the noise. [5]
Already I have given you discretion to occupy Mount Jackson instead, if, on full consideration, you think best. [7]
The house is full of these impossible things; they occupy the mantelpieces, they stand about on the tottering little tables, they are ingenious, they are made for wants yet undiscovered, they tarnish, they break, they will not "work," and pretty soon they look "second-hand. [4]
This whole region, full of swift streams, is without a bridge, and, as a consequence, getting over rivers and brooks and the dangers of ferries occupy a prominent place in the thoughts of the inhabitants. [4]
He determined that from henceforth she should not only occupy Phaedime's place, but should be to him what Kassandane had been to his father Cyrus. [10]
Eglington appeared to forget the other's presence, and to occupy himself with thoughts that glimmered in the fire. [11]
You occupy a filial relation towards your Church--I do not. [10]
Here is a fact correctly stated; and yet it is phrased with such ingenious infelicity that it can be depended upon to convey misinformation every time it is uncarefully unread: By the Salic law no woman or descendant of a woman could occupy the throne. [5]
Many critics were discontented with it because it did not occupy the whole square. [4]
The entire "inspection" did not occupy thirteen seconds. [5]
But this intrigue did not now occupy the old man's mind. [2]
The Dred Scott decision covers the whole ground, and while it occupies it, there is no room even for the shadow of a starved pigeon to occupy the same ground. [7]
I can not conceive how those immense blocks of stone were ever hauled from the quarries, or how they were ever raised to the dizzy heights they occupy in the temples. [5]
The spectators occupy chairs on the platform in front of the bath-houses, or sit under tents erected on the smooth sand. [4]
But, gentlemen, the case is too plain; I occupy too much time on this head, and I pass on. [7]
The time had been when they could have found enough in the conjectural fortunes and characters of their fellow-passengers to occupy them. [8]
Ulrich might have been tempted to occupy the palace of Baron de Hierges, but passed it by, selecting as a home for his mother and himself a pretty little house on the market-place, which reminded him of his father's smithy. [10]
Sleepless, I lay awake night after night, weak and unable to occupy myself. [14]
Livy is down at the house, but I shall now go and bring her up to the Cranes to help us occupy the lounges and hammocks--whence a great panorama of distant hill and valley and city is seeable. [5]
She was amused at his attentions then; she had little to occupy her, and she felt herself superior to any man's emotions: not such as this young Seigneur could win her away from her passive but certain fealty. [11]
Misconstructions and injustices are the proverbial lot of those who occupy eminent position. [6]
Every attempt to approach the Queen or her attendants was baffled, but I learned from Charmian's clever Nubian that Cleopatra had been permitted, in Caesar's name, to choose the palace she desired to occupy, and had selected the one at Lochias. [10]
General Buell's army and the forces at Paducah occupy precisely the same position in relation to each other and to the enemy as did the armies of McDowell and Patterson before the battle of Bull Run. [7]

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