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verb

occupy

CEFR B1

to keep someone busy; to fill a period of time or someone's attention

In a sentence

Six example sentences with occupy, each labelled with its topic.

  • Long exposures of the night sky occupy him for entire weekends, one frame stacking slowly onto the next.

    Photography

  • Nurses occupy restless children with sticker books while the anesthetist explains what the morning will feel like.

    Medicine

  • She occupies her students with charcoal studies of folded cloth until they stop rushing toward finished portraits.

    Art

  • A deck of cards and a map puzzle occupy the children for most of the ten hour flight home.

    Travel

  • Scales and arpeggios occupy the first twenty minutes of every lesson before the student touches a real piece.

    Music

  • Shooting drills occupy the reserves while the starters walk through the game plan at the other end of the court.

    Basketball

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