Word Finder - occupied

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Reserved, engaged.

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The stall on the left is occupied.

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Busy, unavailable.

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She is occupied at the moment.

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Subjugated, under the control of a foreign military presence.

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My father travelled to occupied Japan in December 1945.

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(of time) To take or use.

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To take or use space.

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To have sexual intercourse with.

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To do business in; to busy oneself with.

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To use; to expend; to make use of.

All her skills were occupied simply keeping all four wheels on the ground.

Other things occupied my mind, I guess.

Two occupied stalls and he couldn't figure out where to put the water.

Was he ignoring her, or was his mind completely occupied with grief at the moment?

Because her hands were otherwise occupied, she left it there.

But before she reached the chair, a guest discovered and occupied it.

It was the mystery surrounding the family that kept her mind occupied – and Yancey.

She was pretty certain Xander would be too occupied with Toni to notice her.

A fireplace with a native stone hearth occupied most of one wall.

Had he eaten supper, or had he been too occupied with taking care of her?

The arrangements for Natasha's marriage occupied him for a while.

When she was not occupied, she wandered restlessly about the house, making strange though rarely unpleasant sounds.

The room was occupied, but not by Jude Bryce.

Edith Shipton moved down the hall, causing Dean to think her destination was his and Cynthia's quarters but she stopped in front the small room occupied by Donald Ryland.

It's too late now when Vienna is occupied by the French army!

Two were occupied, and on the third they placed Prince Andrew.

A bucket, quickly smelling of excrement, occupied another corner.

Talal paused in an open doorway leading to a large, green field behind the dwelling occupied by hundreds, perhaps thousands, of warriors organized into sparring groups of four and five.

Sirian paced a small underground cell beside the one Taran had occupied his first night in the city.

The large industrial population of the town is occupied in the manufacture of lace, which extended hither from Nottingham; there are also railway carriage works.

The south pavilion of the present house is the original brick building, one and a half storeys high, first occupied by Jefferson in 1770.

She stared in the space he'd occupied and looked at the phone.

The site of the church of St Peter has long been occupied by a parish church (there was one in the 12th century, if not earlier), but the existing building dates only from 1870.

All around the quarters occupied by the French were other regions still unexplored and unoccupied where, they thought, yet greater riches might be found.

The second floor contained six, five rooms for guests, the sixth occupied by Fred O'Connor.

There were numerous other tents in the area, many occupied and others with campers sitting outside enjoying the setting sun.

She gazed around, realizing that she and the two members of her guard occupied a cage filled with the bloated corpses of a half dozen other men, what was left of her guard.

From this date till the battle of Flodden, in September 1513, he appears to have been occupied with his ecclesiastical duties and literary work.

The site was occupied in very early times, as the discoveries since 1882 show.

The temple occupied a most important position.

Prince Vasili, who still occupied his former important posts, formed a connecting link between these two circles.

The cares of preparation and giving orders, for which everyone came to her, occupied her all day.

Alpatych also knew that on the previous day another peasant had even brought from the village of Visloukhovo, which was occupied by the French, a proclamation by a French general that no harm would be done to the inhabitants, and if they remained they would be paid for anything taken from them.

When her carriage drove out of the house, he mounted and accompanied her eight miles from Bogucharovo to where the road was occupied by our troops.

He was not occupied with the question of what to sacrifice for; the fact of sacrificing in itself afforded him a new and joyous sensation.

In Petersburg she had enjoyed the special protection of a grandee who occupied one of the highest posts in the Empire.

It was around him that the people chiefly crowded, expecting answers from him to the questions that occupied all their minds.

Most diverse thoughts and images occupied him simultaneously.

At Tarutino Kutuzov received what was almost a reprimand from the Emperor for having moved his army along the Ryazan road, and the Emperor's letter indicated to him the very position he had already occupied near Kaluga.

As before he was absent-minded and seemed occupied not with what was before his eyes but with something special of his own.

Willarski was married to a Russian heiress who had a large estate in Orel province, and he occupied a temporary post in the commissariat department in that town.

At home Natasha placed herself in the position of a slave to her husband, and the whole household went on tiptoe when he was occupied--that is, was reading or writing in his study.

Between my studies and work, I have enough to keep my mind occupied.

The other two were too occupied by whatever happened to do more than glance at the newcomer.

There was a small room beneath the stairs on the main floor, rented in the past but occupied by Martha since her January arrival.

I want to try something—I need him to be occupied.

The galley was occupied by three hulking men at a table.

She trailed the two couples up shallow stairs and took the seat beside Evelyn not occupied by Romas.

The raised tent where she had feasted earlier was still occupied by Romas's immediate family.

He took his time with his weapons, needing to keep his hands occupied so he didn't take her up on her offer.