Sample Sentences for
occupant
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  • Each occupant of the car had to wear a seat belt.
    occupant = person inside
  • I looked over to the Radley Place, expecting to see its phantom occupant sunning himself in the swing.  (source)
    occupant = person who lives in a place
  • The former occupant of these premises, the Faun Tumnus, is under arrest and awaiting his trial on a charge of High Treason  (source)
    occupant = person who resided
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  • The rafts baked along with their occupants, emitting a bitter smell.†  (source)
  • This is Fred Clement, former occupant of the Thomas Hardy chair at Cambridge in the years before it became an Atomic Engineering School.  (source)
    occupant = someone who held a position
  • I took a correspondence course, got a degree to teach the subject in buildings with a legal occupancy of less than one hundred.†  (source)
  • A few drawings by the occupants completed the cheerful atmosphere.†  (source)
  • Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk.  (source)
    occupant = person
  • That would come in three more years, when the camp's occupancy maxed out.†  (source)
  • They searched farmhouses and barns, questioned the occupants, making their way south to Port Conway.†  (source)
  • This used to be shared by Mr. Kugler and Mr. van Daan, but now Mr. Kugler is its only occupant.†  (source)
  • The official occupancy of ten thousand fans will not be sufficient for the grand encounter of the little titans of the baseball world.†  (source)
  • The mandated list of occupants clings to its front door.†  (source)
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