Examples of unoccupied in a Sentence
About half of the seats were unoccupied when the concert started.
A third of the beds at the hospital were unoccupied.
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The once-thriving Roman city of Pompeii resembles an eerie time capsule, seemingly unoccupied since a catastrophic volcanic eruption in AD 79, with the remains of its inhabitants forever frozen under a blanket of ash.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025
Shots were fired into occupied residences, some with juveniles inside, damaging five homes and four unoccupied vehicles.
—Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 14 Aug. 2025
Instead, Lowe bounced a full-count breaking ball through the four-hole and into an unoccupied part of right field.
—Chandler Rome, New York Times, 29 July 2025
The driver then rammed an unoccupied NYPD van parked next to the crosswalk on the east side of the Bowery before stopping in the street.
—Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 20 July 2025
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Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025
Shots were fired into occupied residences, some with juveniles inside, damaging five homes and four unoccupied vehicles.
—Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 14 Aug. 2025
Instead, Lowe bounced a full-count breaking ball through the four-hole and into an unoccupied part of right field.
—Chandler Rome, New York Times, 29 July 2025
The driver then rammed an unoccupied NYPD van parked next to the crosswalk on the east side of the Bowery before stopping in the street.
—Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 20 July 2025
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“Unoccupied.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unoccupied. Accessed 23 Aug. 2025.
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unoccupied
adjective
un·oc·cu·pied
ˌən-ˈäk-yə-ˌpīd 
ˈən-
1
: not busy : unemployed
2
: not occupied : empty
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