What is "occupies"

Usage examples of "occupies".

I wish for monsieur to give up one or two of the apartments he occupies, which would diminish his expenses and ease my conscience.

It is also the seat of the archbishop, so the bureaucracy of the Church occupies a significant share of the buildings around the cathedral.

He thinks that he occupies an advanced station of observation, from which his telescope can sweep the horizon for anything new.

It was a nebulous but suggestive remark that the newspaper occupies the borderland between literature and common sense.

Before going further, and in order to avoid misunderstanding, it is proper to say that I have the firmest belief in the ultimate development of all mankind into a higher plane than it occupies now.

Men cannot be happy unless they are good, and they cannot be good unless the care of the soul occupies the first place in their thoughts.

The chart-house occupies the place of the old boiler-room ventilator, and abuts on the fore-deck.

The ocean has an area twice as great as that of the dry land, and it occupies a space thirteen times as great as that occupied by the land above sea-level.

The library forms part of the Museum, which occupies a ground-floor wing of the castle.

It was that uncertain longing of the heart which occupies exclusively a young girl of fifteen.