| 单词 | occupy |
| 例句 | As for contacts of New World peoples with Europe, the sole early ones involved the Norse who occupied Greenland in very small numbers between A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thomas wondered again about his inexplicable feeling of connection with her, though it had faded a little—but that could have been because of everything else occupying his thoughts. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z There's a cluster of houses off in the distance, but there's no telling how big they are or if they're even occupied. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z His family grew and grew, and after his days continued to grow, until Brandy Hall occupied the whole of the low hill, and had three large front-doors, many side-doors, and about a hundred windows. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He had no problem finding other people and other things to occupy him—men were always climbing the stairs asking for him, and he was happy to accompany them, leaving her alone. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked at Ben and, seeing him fully occupied with Asta, said quietly, “I wish I knew when he’d stop changing and settle.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Meeks was already repeating them to himself, staring at the blank space she had occupied mere moments before. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The curtained bed occupied a dais in the center of the chamber. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Two of the seats were already occupied by guys in suits, who stood as the Porter family entered. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Weeks later, they returned to Jerusalem to find their house “occupied”—filled with other people—Jewish soldiers with guns. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Gradually this Zeus displaced the others, until he occupied the whole scene. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Blacks occupied the largest area of Africa even as of A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And anyway I was too occupied to think about it all. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I won’t say I became obsessed by all this, but it did occupy my thoughts a great deal in the months while I waited for spring to come. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The top two floors of the house are occupied by their landlords, the Montgomerys, a Harvard sociology professor and his wife. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And with what important matters did Thyon Nero occupy his mind? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But an idle mind tends to sink, so the mind should be kept occupied with whatever light distraction may suggest itself. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Two men stand at the door to forestall the sisters and keep them occupied if they chance to come along. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The defeated men are killed, and their territory may be occupied by the victors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She held the tablet closer, scanning it over the pages, mouth-filled wings occupying the screen. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Once a lonely outpost, Sing Sing now occupies fifty-five acres of prime real estate in suburban Westchester, one of the priciest counties in the United States. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “True. And these last two compartments are occupied by men.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z I look around the tiny space that I’ve occupied with my parents for what feels like forever. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The Rad Lab occupied a special place among the Manhattan District labs for other reasons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Officially, four occupying powers divided the city into Soviet, American, British, and French sectors. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Only one table is occupied and the waitress looks surprised to see us. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Sam’s mind was occupied mostly with his master, hardly noticing the dark cloud that had fallen on his own heart. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The thesis concerned the adoption of Spanish culture by the Pima Indians, who occupy a 372,000-acre reservation south of Phoenix. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I found a long strong stick to protect myself as I sat playing with leaves on the ground to avoid bringing up thoughts that occupied my mind. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z And with Mrs. McCracken occupied in the garden, and her husband playing with sharp objects in the garage, I’ll have just the window I need. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z In these occupied territories, many black youth automatically “assume the position” when a patrol car pulls up, knowing full well that they will be detained and frisked no matter what. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z To occupy himself, he worked on some puzzles in his head. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Only a couple of tables were occupied, but it wasn’t noon yet. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z A war correspondent triumphantly announced that the lodgment area from which the Allied Armies would soon launch their major offensive into the heart of occupied France was now adequate and secure. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z From his own observations he noted the ramparts sur Brahe wrote: “I have been occupied in alchemy, as much as by the celestial studies, from my 23rd year.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On an overlooking hill was the turreted mansion occupied by the company general superintendent, a man sent down by our owners in Ohio to keep an eye on their assets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z To keep his mind occupied, he thought of other holes in other stomachs. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z “What if the Smoke’s still occupied?” she asked. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The point was to allow white, his opponent, to occupy the center squares, making the pieces a clear target that would be vulnerable to Bobby’s attack. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z His smile pulls at the piercings in his lips, making the holes they occupy wider, and I wince. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He would be in a home full of women, with nothing to occupy himself. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She was flat chested, insisted on wearing glasses and no makeup, refused to grow out her hair, and commonly occupied spaces—like Insomnia Con—that seemed to be implicitly reserved for men. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z If the partition is then removed, the molecules will tend to spread out and occupy both halves of the box. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A little frown occupied her forehead, and her eyes were narrowed. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The thing about Churchill was that, like the stopped clock that’s right twice a day, he occupied one position and waited for the world to come to him. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z It had been overlooked at the time when the house was first occupied. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Soon, I came to an area occupied by white tents. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Now, I followed Weylin up the stairs to a bedroom—not the same one Rufus had occupied on my last trip. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Most popular in Japan is the view that the Japanese gradually evolved from ancient Ice Age people who occupied Japan long before 20,000 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They had cooks and drivers, and guards who occupied a gatehouse, armed with machetes. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The bad news was that the rest of the living room was occupied by Mrs. O’Leary. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Sometimes inmates would intentionally spill something on a seat they did not wish to occupy or tell the officer that a friend in line was coming to take it “in just a second.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So I manage to occupy myself for the next half hour. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z But to the south lay 2,000 miles of country thinly occupied by Khoisan hunter-gatherers, lacking iron and crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I quickly turn away, occupy myself again with throwing pebbles. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “Give them the dwelling that had been occupied by Felix and his wife. They have moved down to St. Augustine.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he was climbing into his single bed—to find it occupied! Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Miep asked him to remove his coat, so the yellow star couldn’t be seen, and brought him to the private office, where Mr. Kleiman kept him occupied until the cleaning lady had gone. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “Our task is to occupy the city. We’ll let the Highlanders hunt them down. Tell the men to take over the barracks and prepare Washington’s headquarters for Major General Robertson.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘He has been much occupied. Our orders came from Treebeard, who has taken over the management of Isengard. He commanded me to welcome the Lord of Rohan with fitting words. I have done my best.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “Hasn’t Ninth Mile Road been occupied on and off?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But beneath the starry sky, the field that stretches out below his tree is empty, as though nothing has ever occupied the space but grass and leaves and fog. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The Calvinists aboard the Mayflower believed that the epidemic was evidence of God’s grace and goodness, because it had greatly reduced the population of the area the Plymouth Colony would occupy. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The National Guard had been called out to occupy the campus. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The Royal & General occupied a tall, antique-looking building with a Union Jack fluttering from a pole about fifteen floors up. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z To Burnham it now seemed inevitable that something would occupy the island. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Peeping out of the handbag, I could see in the very centre of the room two long tables that were not yet occupied. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Harry and Ron walked through the mass of occupied chintz chairs and poufs that cluttered the room, and sat down at the same small circular table. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z By the time they had reached the other side of the marquee, most of the tables were occupied: The emptiest was the one where Luna sat alone. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The guest room I occupied was supplied with writing paper, ink, and a pen. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Some would be occupied by people with great Talents, others would not. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Even though the town did not resist being occupied, the Nazis had a list of prominent citizens, both non-Jewish and Jewish, and immediately arrested them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z A glass chandelier shaped like a grapevine occupied most of the ceiling, spitting seeds of diamond fire onto the windows along the far side of the room. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Every muscle in his body seized as it reached them, and he was so occupied by the very presence of it that he didn’t even notice Koffi hadn’t said a word. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Miss Preston occupies the chair behind the desk while Miss Anderson sits in the chair in front of the desk. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Often, too, he thought how different his life had been before the penguins had come to keep him occupied. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z The nurse’s face seems to occupy multiple distances, a mask atop a mask atop a mask. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It is the first time I’ve ever written to the person whose life I’ve occupied, and it feels both strange and comfortable, knowing that Rhiannon will be the reader of these words. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Buck trotted up to the place Spitz would have occupied as leader; but François, not noticing him, brought Sol-leks to the coveted position. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z During John Glenn’s test, he found pencil and paper and wrote 18 pages to keep himself occupied. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z “Korea was divided before the war. I’ve told you about when Korea was occupied by Japan and we almost lost our culture and our language.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The week after my father’s funeral Lelia slept in the room Mitt occupied his last summer, when he decided he was old enough to live by himself in the big house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Halleck occupied Corinth the next day, it was true, but there was an empty ring to his boast that this was a “victory as brilliant and important as any recorded in history.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z An empty house would be safest for us, but blacked out like this, there was no way to tell which houses were occupied and which weren’t. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I hadn’t thought much of the Collective actually occupying the planet. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Further, as a precautionary measure for those in the occupied territories, everyone living within a zone of twenty miles from the coast was warned to prepare for bombardments. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She asked him to go out and keep the younger ones occupied, but he flatly refused. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z The house in which she has lived for the past twenty-seven years, which she has occupied longer than any other in her life, has been recently sold, a Realtor’s sign stuck into the lawn. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z How many angels could dance on the head of a pin, and with what matters did God occupy himself in all the infinite aeons before the Creadon? Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It was a large room bright with sunshine and yellow paint, and containing twenty beds, all occupied. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Matter, as far as Descartes was concerned, had only one fundamental characteristic, that it occupied space; it followed that there could be no vacuum, as this would be space with nothing occupying it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But the story that occupied my mind for the longest time, the story that I retold over and over, was about a baby elephant named Boo. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Here everyone was, speaking English out of consideration for him, and he was too occupied to listen. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Early upon the morning following those hours passed in Arobin’s society, Edna set about securing her new abode and hurrying her arrangements for occupying it. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z A mound of thick gauze, cross- hatched by shiny white tape, occupied the center of his piggish face. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The office was occupied by one man with a fringe of hair around his shiny head who was dozing with his feet up on a wooden desk. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I immediately found myself more than occupied replenishing the guests with tea and coffee. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Before Austronesians arrived, most of Indonesia was thinly occupied by hunter-gatherers lacking even polished stone tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Inside the keep women occupied themselves with spinning, weaving, and embroidery. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Peeping through, he could see that the height was still occupied, and whoever it was up there had a spear at the ready. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Only the goblin seemed untouched by the suddenly festive atmosphere, and after a while he slunk back to the bedroom he now occupied alone. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Maize was a high-status food there even though Andean cultures had developed their own agricultural system, with potatoes occupying the central role. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I occupied my mind with other things and tried not to twitch at the nahlrout- dulled jabs of the needle. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Behind the hands and the needle, an engraving of the sun in splendor occupied the center of the dial. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The computers occupied the usual place of honor in the center of the living room, with an array of tangled cables, boxes for hard drives and webcams spread across the floor. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The second was occupied by Gregory Pitts and his friends swatting their arms through a cloud of body spray that smelled like cinnamon if cinnamon smelled like garlic. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z One of those was occupied by a dwarf. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Count and Countess Andrenyi occupied compartments No. 12 and 13 adjoining. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z But never once did we openly say that we occupied none but subordinate positions in the building. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z While he is so occupied, I will tell you, reader, what they are: and first, I must premise that they are nothing wonderful. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z But there’s only one way to make sure the throne remains ready for him while he learns everything he needs to know—and that’s if someone else occupies it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The amount of information in human DNA, if written out in ordinary language, would occupy a hundred thick volumes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Up to now, most scientists have been too occupied with the development of new theories that describe what the universe is to ask the question why. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Evacuate now! The federals have entered Nsukka! We are evacuating now! Right now! I am going to all the houses still occupied. Evacuate now!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They are people whom all of us can reach in only a few steps because, for one reason or another, they manage to occupy many different worlds and subcultures and niches. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t so much live with us as occupy space. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z In the end they decide on a shingled two-story colonial in a recently built development, a house previously occupied by no one, erected on a quarter acre of land. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She wouldn’t leave a room for long while Char occupied it. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Grace knew they were trying to keep her occupied, keep her from feeling completely left out from friends who never called anymore. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The fair occupied over one square mile and filled more than two hundred buildings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Along the way, contrary to my initial impression, they have managed to learn a great deal about Calakmul, the landscape it occupied, and the collapse that led to the forest’s return. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Ultima’s cure and the golden carp occupied my thoughts the rest of the summer. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z That the space which these things occupied was itself an expectation. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z A large table occupies that space, covered with tools and scraps of metal and gears and old computer parts and wires. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The space occupied by the stars is heaven, the habitation of God, the angels and the elect. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Instead, I found an old man sitting in the chair Danny had once occupied, staring nearsightedly at the pages of a scholarly journal. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Only a few people occupied the vast lawn. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Painted Rock Cave was occupied at roughly the same time that the Clovis culture was thriving to the north. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They do not go outside—we have activities in our house that keep them occupied. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The women who know teach the men who don’t, my thirteen are occupied, and Siunek is a surprise prodigy, able to finish a sleeve in just a couple of hours. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He almost completely occupies it; he’s large and barrel-shaped with a stately, pockmarked face, gray hair, big eyebrows, and a firm handshake. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z A huge television screen, blank but glowing softly, occupies one wall. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He'd sought an audience within an hour of his arrival, only to be told that the king was occupied. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Clara also brought the saving idea of writing in her mind, without paper or pencil, to keep her thoughts occupied and to escape from the doghouse and live. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There was never any place to plug in the vacuum, as every outlet was occupied by some member of the computer family. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Their thoughts were occupied by weightier names: world-record holder Indian Broom; speed demon Special Agent; and above them all, the magnificent Rosemont, king of the East and conqueror of 1935 Triple Crown winner Omaha. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’ve got something to occupy yourself with, right?” she says before heading back to the kitchen. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z At least they kept her hands occupied and gave her an excuse for not meeting that implacable gaze. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The drab workmen scuttle all around, occupying the same universe but seemingly on a different dimension. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Even though General de Wet and General Kemp had led a force of twelve thousand and occupied towns and caused many deaths, they were both released soon after their convictions for high treason. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Once the cellblock was occupied, whippings were administered in an area of the ground floor called the Flogging Post. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Darcy took up a book; Miss Bingley did the same; and Mrs. Hurst, principally occupied in playing with her bracelets and rings, joined now and then in her brother’s conversation with Miss Bennet. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z The assistant director’s office occupies a dusty third-floor corner that overlooks the gardens: walnut-paneled, overheated, decorated with pinned butterflies and beetles in alternating frames. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z After their first meeting, Descartes wrote of him: “I could not believe that a single mind could occupy itself with so many things, and equip itself so well in all of them.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The fear of this occupied my mind for hours at a time. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Or maybe something else entirely occupied his mind. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The remaining flat in the house was occupied by a Polish dock walloper, his wife and their four kids. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As the enemy marched through the occupied streets, a few desperate Loyalists fired upon them from gables, then slid down roofs on their bellies, and fled. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z By this time, the rooms were vastly different from what I had found them, and I enjoyed the honour of occupying a few prominent pages in the books of a neighbouring upholsterer. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z By Loeb’s reckoning, Livingston was a personality type destined to occupy an uneasy limbo within this continuum. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was messy, but at least it kept her occupied licking it off, and the wound was getting cleaner all the time. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, he was relegated to the sidelines as a marginal player while Johnny-come-latelies like Hamilton and Madison occupied center stage. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Passengers got off, and Carol and Martin moved to occupy two folding seats located beside the door. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The other chairs were all occupied except two—a stark reminder that Zart and Gaily had been taken by the Grievers. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Whether it’s wife or nation they occupy, their mistake is the same: they stand still, and their stake moves underneath them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Gonzales got word that there would be a search of a house down the road, occupied by at least four suspects presumed to have been looting and dealing drugs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z But we didn’t find a movie until Room 32, occupied by a couple of guys from Mississippi named Joe and Marcus. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Mass rallies were held; land reserved for whites was occupied and picketed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The next time she called 911, she was going to request cops who wouldn't send her alone into an occupied building. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z But the second couple would actually occupy the second rung in this after-school hierarchy. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z His eyes, almost hidden in the shadow cast by the brim of his bowler hat, are fixed on the space in the center of the circle that the illusionist occupied only moments before. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z During the Great War, the German soldiers who occupied Poland were usually considerate of Poles, regardless of their faith. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z He was still occupied with thoughts of Susan, half hoping she would not call again and half hoping she would, when Kainene came home. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Followed by Dr. Constantine, Poirot made his way to the next coach and the compartment occupied by the murdered man. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z It was good being back at school with friends and lots of work to occupy my mind. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Yes,” I call after, “but while the toxin is effective, no human will be able to occupy the planet for quite some time.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The Rupp property is on a rise, an exposed plateau, from which he could see the harvested, glowing land of River Valley Farm—scenery that occupied him for perhaps an hour. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z After the war, Hess returned to Princeton and the preoccupations of teaching, but the mysteries of the seafloor continued to occupy a space in his thoughts. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z There is little to occupy us upon the Crepuscule, now that we have witnessed the death. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I wished that I could see the backyards so I could occupy myself with imagining the lives behind the hanging clothes and fruit trees and swings. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z So we ran west toward parts of Germany not yet occupied. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Within a year, Oliver and I discovered that under the Urban Areas Act we were not permitted to occupy business premises in the city without ministerial consent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The township was desperately overcrowded; every square foot was occupied either by a ramshackle house or a tin-roofed shack. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A fountain warbled near the main entrance, surrounded by low stone benches that were occupied soon after sunup and remained popular well into the night. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Though they were nice, my immigrant neighbors could see no connection between their personal habits and the armies of mice and roaches aggressively occupying the building. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Something else occupied my mind even more along the march: Uri. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z It was two-thirty and though many tables were occupied the meal was almost over. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The whole structure seemed to occupy its own space, one of solitude and oblivion, protected from the vices of time and the habits of the birds. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I stared at it as if trying to read through the cover, unable to comprehend how it had come to occupy my now-trembling hands. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z What thoughts occupied the dark devious mind of Cluny the Scourge? Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z But he saw at once that though all the chairs were occupied, Antonapoulos was not there. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The distance is unacceptable; as is the room, when I get to see it: no microwave, no fridge, hardly any space not occupied by the bed. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He tells her about how he and Sonia occupied the kitchen on Pemberton Road for a day, stuffing a turkey and rolling out dough for pies, things his mother did not particularly like to do. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I think about the deadly jungle, the occupied beach. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I occupy my mind thinking of all the painful moves I can inflict on Henry once we reach the bug-out. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Jean Louise was not to occupy her head thinking about those folks. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Corporate decision makers, and even some two-bit entrepreneurs like my boss at The Maids, occupy an economic position miles above that of the underpaid people whose labor they depend on. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We have already witnessed the early-sixteenth-century shift in the position occupied by the principal melody in a piece of four- or three-part vocal music, moving from the middle of the texture to the top. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z We placed the smoked meat and the gallon of water by the door of the room we occupied. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The little girl occupied herself by buttoning and unbuttoning a pinafore on the doll’s plastic body. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Before that day, I had never seen people being together and yet not together, occupying the same space yet choosing not to associate with each other in any way. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z A single thought occupied the minds of everyone in racing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It screws up the laws of physics for her to occupy the same room as the first wife. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z He wastes no more time on chat and shows me what is to occupy me for the next four hours. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “Don’t spend more than five bucks and don’t buy anything except for ground beef. And keep the kids occupied as long as you can. I’ll meet you back here.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z He would read about the Russians moving into Korea and grumble that if the Americans occupied Japan there’d be another war within ten years, maybe five. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z For years, he and Madame Lavoisier occupied themselves with extremely exacting studies requiring the finest measurements. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Sassur’s spirit would occupy itself with counting the pebbles and would not follow us home. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z To our ears, it sounds so obvious because we occupy the future location that Washington envisioned. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The neighborhood behind his house was fully occupied now. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Above that were the storerooms, which occupied a layer at least twenty feet high. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She had wanted him to make her feel justified, solidify her right to self-pity, encourage her to occupy a larger portion of the moral high ground. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z After we had finished eating, my uncle showed me his carpentry tools and his worktable, which was outside, occupying most of the little yard. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z But in January 1919, there were many other things to occupy their attention. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Photos of black employees who “occupied positions of responsibility” at NASA, all of them involved with the space program, accompanied the text. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Having no natural controls in this new territory, they spread prodigiously, eventually occupying about 60 million acres. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Years ago Daisy had walked like that around the kitchen, silent and occupied. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z A very few approached more slowly, always occupied by elderly people—little white heads, just above the window line—who stared at us without sympathy or expression, as they would at a field of cows. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z They told me they were heading for a village called Yele in Bonthe district that they had heard was safe because it was occupied by the Sierra Leone Armed Forces. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I’d felt the derision directed at my body, the literal space I occupied in the world. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In fact, however, for the next five years nothing happened, largely because MacKaye occupied himself with refining and expanding his vision until he and it were only tangentially connected to the real world. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z These particular refuges occupy critical positions in the conservation of western waterfowl. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Then the infantry followed to occupy the territory. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Of course, in ours only one is occupied. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z But there are subtle differences in what is expected of individual rowers depending on which seat they occupy. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Reproductions from the temple at Kujaraho occupied corners of the room along with huge jade plants. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Around the occupied tables handsome waiters gathered, their black hair slicked back into bullfighters' little ponytails. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z We'd be moving into the sixth house we'd lived in since we arrived in America, while my high school friends continued to occupy their childhood homes. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The neighborhood is gray and dingy and littered with trash, but all the row homes are occupied and therefore not condemned, so our blocks look pretty healthy compared to most around here. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Two were easily ruled out—we could see the glow of the TV through the windows and curtains—but the others weren’t as obviously occupied. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I turn to Chris and notice that the room next to him, Room 21, is now occupied. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Because of this, and because of her warm, wise demeanor, Valerie had come to occupy a curious position in our lives. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Your acquaintances, on the other hand, by definition occupy a very different world than you. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In every town and village the Germans invaded, they took over and set up their own soldiers and government to occupy and replace the Soviet system. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He was taking a far greater risk than he knew; but Frodo was too much occupied with his burden and with the struggle in his mind to debate, and almost too hopeless to care. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Isobel sits in a rarely occupied armchair in the corner of Marco’s flat, a rainbow of silk ribbon twisted around her fingers as she attempts in vain to form it into a single elaborate braid. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I decided therefore to occupy myself with some further tasks in the billiard room, assuming she would after a while see the ludicrousness of her position and leave. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z There was an observation balloon tethered in a village occupied by the Germans so they could spot Soviet positions and tell their gunners where to fire. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Jack’s family apartment occupied the entire second floor of this building in Gdynia. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z I continued working and, to keep my mind occupied, began whistling rock ’n’ roll tunes and daydreaming about Peggy and the Vets. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z It curls through the tiny cracks and spaces not occupied by limbs or torso, and seeps between her fingers as they press against the glass. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I would learn to, in her words, “occupy space.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Thousands of US troops were already stationed at American bases in occupied Japan, just a short hop across the Sea of Japan from Korea. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Someone had once told him that it was from there that the Moors had come, to occupy all of Spain. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They hadn’t much to do or look at to occupy themselves, even though they very much wanted to be occupied to take their minds off their nervousness. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Once the colonists had reached the shores of Greater Australia, they spread quickly over the whole continent to occupy even its farthest reaches and most inhospitable habitats. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She told the cook that she herself would be greatly occupied during Mr. Pontellier’s absence, and she begged her to take all thought and responsibility of the larder upon her own shoulders. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Chris and I wasn’t saying too much at this point, just because Chris was way too occupied with all the texting he was doing to talk to me. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z We occupied the top floor, under the name of Glimmer & Company. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I see you are occupied. Perhaps another time.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z African-Americans have always occupied the lowest level of the Southland’s great social pyramid, but as the new century progressed the region seemed unable to decide who it despised more: blacks or poor whites. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Cots, trunks, and rickety shelving occupied the space. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z A forlorn plateau of bulletproof ice and windswept boulders 26,000 feet above sea level, it occupies a broad notch between the upper ramparts of Lhotse and Everest. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z If there is nothing decent on television she leafs through books she takes out of the library, books that occupy the space Ashoke normally does on the bed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I started to fix dinner to occupy myself. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the sole Norse site located on Newfoundland apparently represents no more than a winter camp occupied by a few dozen people for a few years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The duke of Veragua, a direct descendent of Columbus, sat in the fourteenth carriage; the duchess occupied the fifteenth with Bertha Palmer, whose diamonds radiated an almost palpable heat. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z My mind occupied, I barely hear the feather-light whisper of the girl as it drifts past my ear. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z And in theology, angels and demons occupied space, even if they did not have bodies in the conventional sense. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I planned on calling Pa before getting the food, but the booth was already occupied by a light-skinned guy with a big, floppy Afro. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “By contrast, see how humanely the Germans deal with captured agents? See how I am doing translation work, neutrally occupying myself while I await trial?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Lieutenant Dana had led his troops into Bryantown, a well-known place of Confederate intrigue, commandeered the tavern, and occupied the town. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It is identical to an office that occupied a similar space in London, and then another in Vienna, before it was moved here to Basel. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Madame asked, then strode away from the wheelchair, past the two of us and into the darkness, for all I know to occupy the space Miss Emily had been in before. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It has also been claimed that there were no scientists in the seventeenth century because there was no professional role for a scientist to occupy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z These Indian squadrons began to enter the plaza to the accompaniment of great songs, and thus entering they occupied every part of the plaza. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That would have been the summer after my father died, when I first began feeding my family, when my whole being was occupied with battling starvation. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z A large, middle- aged Negro woman sat in front of us to the left, a young Negro man occupied the seat in front of us to the right. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence was already occupied with the twenty-seven-inch cyclotron rising in the wooden Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Haiti occupies the western third of the island of Hispaniola, in the Caribbean, while the more prosperous Dominican Republic, once ruled by Spain, governs the eastern two-thirds. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Alex has personally helped with exhibitions at the Smithsonian and sleeps in a room once occupied by Ulysses S. Grant’s father-in-law, but he still loses his breath when Henry pulls him through the marble pillars. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I think about food, mostly, and occupy my mind by watching children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes, almost hidden in the shadow cast by the brim of his bowler hat, are fixed on the space in the center of the circle that the illusionist occupied only moments before. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z And then the house will be occupied by strangers, and there will be no trace that they were ever there, no house to enter, no name in the telephone directory. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Hence the Americas were probably fully occupied by hunter-gatherers within a few centuries of the arrival of the first colonists. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z An up staircase occupied part of the view. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Four large squares of poster board, covered with scores of photos documenting the whole brief span of Chris's life, have occupied the dining-room table for many days now. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The hundreds gathered to see the departure of the brigade stood about gazing at the empty space they had occupied. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He was certain Hitler was going to lose and that Russia would occupy East Prussia—and destroy everything in the process. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z If only he had not tried to cross the occupied roads, he would not be so gaunt and withdrawn now; his grief would not be burdened by failure. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The hunt might have simply been meant to occupy her time. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Aesthetics is, strictly speaking, a branch of philosophy which has occupied thinkers from Plato to the present day. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Since 1947, although the adults have occupied the nest and there is evidence of egg laying, no young eagles have been produced. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The Far Common could be seen from the window of my room, and early in June I stood at the window and watched the war moving in to occupy it. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who keep claiming they don’t want to be occupied by the British don’t realize how unfair they’re being. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “Can you think of anything else you’ve found in here that could occupy your time when you leave?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Her mind returned to Mrs. Elton’s offences, and long, very long, did they occupy her. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Tacked on the corkboard walls and occupying several computer screens are other designs of some sort. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z But that area, too, remained a cultural backwater occupied by hunter-gatherers for most of its history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Neither of the other two men was hungry, and the meal was soon eaten, but not till they were sipping their coffee did M. Bouc mention the subject that was occupying all their minds. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been occupied by a family of four screechers the year before. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Besides this, at the appropriate times of the year he should keep the populace occupied with festivals and spectacles. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z I don’t love the Commander or anything like it, but he’s of interest to me, he occupies space, he is more than a shadow. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Stewart had sat down in the same chair he occupied the last night. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Emma glared at him—or at the space I imagined him to occupy—but said nothing. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The ATC occupies a modest white house on a steep hill above the old part of town. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Doon occupied his mind by calculating how far underground he was. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The same sparse furnishings, all built by hand just like the house, had occupied the space for decades. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z It was a part of his policy always to be busy and occupied. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z This is less helpful than it might seem, however, because the palace complex occupied a large area—as Strabo states elsewhere, up to a third of the extent of the entire city. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Our neighbors seemed fairly indifferent to our reduced circumstances, as they were occupied with their own. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a single chair in the room, carefully positioned in the precise place that Dragons tone occupied off the coast of Westerns, and raised up to give a good view of the tabletop. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Even if he had asked if the seat was taken instead of asking if it was occupied, I could have told that he had a British accent. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z There are twelve rows of folding chairs, every one of them occupied. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Miles had been taking fewer and fewer of his mafia hit man jobs, and it was clear that he didn’t have enough occupying his mind. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Not in a city occupied by the Continental army. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z On Sundays he spends an hour occupied with his tins of shoe polishes and his three pairs of shoes, two black and one brown. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I met the Franks, the stubborn, charismatic father-and-son team who then more or less ran the tribe, in a cluttered office that in my recollection occupied half of a double- wide trailer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Before the British occupied New York, Sons of Liberty broke into his print shop and left it in ruins. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She was silent, occupied with some plans for the foundation which she was writing on a sheet of paper held against the undulating front section of the board. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As one of his biographers put it, his body did not just occupy space; it seemed to organize the space around it. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Everything appeared in simple black outlines, and it looked as if someone with a set of paints the size of a house and a brush as wide could stay happily occupied for years. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z About twenty or so men and women occupy a U-shaped table. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Gogol goes for runs around the lake with Gerald, arduous laps along steep hilly dirt roads, so infrequently traveled that they can occupy the dead center. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But the highlands, already occupied by dense populations of New Guineans, were not reached by Europeans until the 1930s. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And thus he has always accomplished and organized great deeds, that have always kept the minds of his subjects surprised, amazed, and occupied with their outcome. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The bums and druggies occupying the scoop benches looked me over, sometimes hissing or smacking their lips. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The overall effect, he wrote, “is thus to be in some degree of the character of a theatrical scene, to occupy the Exposition stage for a single summer.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Lee said, “I would like to see General Longstreet. My compliments, and ask him to ride with me this morning, if he is not otherwise occupied.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Every nook was occupied by a chair, a teetering pile of books, or both. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The charm of an object to occupy the many vacancies of Harriet’s mind was not to be talked away. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z When I was young, American schoolchildren were taught that North America had originally been occupied by only about one million Indians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He started at the rearmost row and moved methodically, from row to row, stopping at each chair, whether or not it was occupied, to read the name placard on its arm. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Before long, the congregation had grown so large that he moved elsewhere and refurnished the house with rows of wooden pews and a tiled fountain in the place once occupied by the family’s television set. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Had it still occupied that space, the impact would have separated it from Butler’s shoulders. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Later the “Occupied Territories” indicated Palestinian lands that were seized by Israelis, so “occupied” became a nasty word. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Where population densities are high, as in regions occupied by states or chiefdoms, the defeated still have nowhere to flee, but the victors now have two options for exploiting them while leaving them alive. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That way, Mom pointed out, potential intruders would think the house was occupied and would be fooled into believing that the people who lived there might come home any second. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z A Warm Morning Ben Franklin stove occupied the centermost floor space; a few rows of rickety wooden benches were aligned on either side of the stove. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the most complicated deceptions Washington ever put together came after Howe occupied Philadelphia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Trading and marriage relationships were undoubtedly established between those Khoisan and the Bantu farmers, each occupying different adjacent habitats, just as Pygmy hunter-gatherers and Bantu farmers still do today in equatorial Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the last year of this period only 43 nests were occupied. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z For the most part, my coworkers seem content to occupy their little niche on the sheer cliff face of class inequality. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z For the highly secretive Soviet government, a leadership merry-go-round like this was unprecedented: In the entire history of the USSR, only four men had occupied the leadership post. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “From youth on I have been occupied with the investigation of insects.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Most occupy a vast middle ground of ordinary, while others are more distinct: pleasant, even beautiful, or sometimes slippery and unaccountably wrong-feeling. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She walked down the hall until she reached her father’s study, and discovered that it was occupied. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Those occupying the chairs closest to the flaming chair abandon their seats and rush for the door, only to find that there is no longer a door to be found, only a solid wall. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z No bra, no shoes, no purse, car battery dead, Mom occupied. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Gronau estimated that one hundred people now occupied the car below. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But, as it occupied a corner, the windows facing the street outside the ghetto had to be sealed. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Their line of reasoning boils down to this: England must fight, struggle and sacrifice its sons to liberate Holland and the other occupied countries. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The river valleys of southeastern Australia remained occupied by tribal societies without agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Something to occupy your mind while you waited in the receiving room. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Song Po-po told us our extended family used to occupy two whole buildings, ten rooms all together. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The nave was occupied by a long worktable cluttered with equipment. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The demands of the job, at least, kept his mind occupied. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Her mother asked if she wanted to join the sewing class at church, to keep her occupied, and her father said that this, the unending university strike, was why young people became armed robbers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z As the Germans were pushed out of the occupied towns, the liberators discovered mass graves that told silently of the horrific holocaust suffered by Belorussia’s Jewish inhabitants. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It occupied almost the entire night for the pups. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Clerval had never sympathised in my tastes for natural science; and his literary pursuits differed wholly from those which had occupied me. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z The couches up front by the magazines and newspaper racks are usually occupied during study periods but were empty this late. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z “The Augurs are otherwise occupied”—a strange, smug smile creeps onto the Commandant’s face—“and have asked that in their stead, I give you the details of the Trials. Here.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I occupied a seat to myself not far from the back. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He shifts around a lot, looks for something in his jacket pockets as if he’s occupied with important business. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It must have been 9:00 when I was sitting in the middle of Central Park, alone, no one near me, no other bench occupied. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Whites, ranging from Egyptians and Libyans to Moroccans, occupied Africa’s north coastal zone and the northern Sahara. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I think it may be in your best interest to find something else to occupy your time,” he says when they reach the trains. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Two plush sofas occupied the middle of the room, with a canopied bed in one corner and a mahogany dining table in the other. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z It was occupied and I held on desperately. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The cage had been occupied until a few months before by a yellow canary named Porgy, who had lived in it for five years and then died of old age. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z A row of houses in Ville Rose was occupied by a group of foreigners. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Does he feel the same urge to occupy the same space, to breathe the same air that I do? Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Here, in case Lazlo might miss his meaning, was the best possible example of a scholar occupying his mind with “important matters.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The Depperts lived in the bedroom adjacent to hers, and the Millers occupied the large master bedroom at the end of the hall. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z At the start of October, however, Harry had something else to occupy him, something so enjoyable it more than made up for his unsatisfactory classes. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z A list of names and their donation amount occupied the right-hand side of the screen. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z She was occupied in knitting; a large cat sat demurely at her feet; nothing in short was wanting to complete the beau-ideal of domestic comfort. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Some of them are occupied, while other prisoners gather around a fire giving more smoke than warmth. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Tree-ear occupied his mind by identifying the birds he heard and the plants he saw. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “You did not hear, for instance, a commotion going on in the compartment next to yours? The American lady who occupies it had quite an attack of hysterics and rang for the conductor.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z No matter what the location of a site, carbon dating showed that it was occupied between 13,500 and 12,900 years ago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This, coming from a girl who just smuggled a Jewish baby through the occupied streets of Amsterdam? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z What nobody was tuning into was that there’s a big difference between keeping myself occupied and actually taking care of myself. passed. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “But Italy was occupied by the Germans and is now being occupied by us. You don’t call that doing very well, do you?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It had occupied her own parents’ mind completely for as long as she could remember them. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Even an aluminum cookset offered considerations of weight, compactness, thermal dynamics, and general utility that could occupy a mind for hours. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z When Caesar stayed with Cleopatra in Alexandria, his role had been that of a general in charge of an occupying army. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z With four generations per century, twenty-three centuries occupies almost a hundred generations of human beings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Clara’s retinue was gradually pushed into the back rooms of the house, and an invisible border arose between the parts of the house occupied by Esteban Trueba and those occupied by his wife. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They occupy a one-square-mile pit constantly shrouded by a heavy blanket of smog. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s in the exact spot once occupied by my poster. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z I occupy my mind with thoughts of revenge and massacre. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Under its regulations, each racial group could own land, occupy premises, and trade only in its own separate area. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “All of Poland was occupied, including Gdynia—which was never bombed, even though everyone had feared it would be,” said Jack. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Right after our first squad occupied that spot, shells began to hit all around us. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time the European invasions began, Indigenous peoples had occupied and made changes to every part of the Americas. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Gaines and the other Permian coaches were all too aware of the role that high school football occupied in Odessa, how it had become central to the psyche of thousands who lived there. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Until recent centuries, these areas were still occupied by hunter-gatherers—Native Americans in the first three cases and Aboriginal Australians or Native Siberians in the last two. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The front seats are mostly occupied by kids who are squirming so nervously, they must be sixth graders. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The four, five, and six seats are often called “the engine room” of the crew, and the rowers who occupy these seats are typically the biggest and strongest in the boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Would it be possible for you to create some kind of diversion while I’m getting the tapestry? Could you keep the rats occupied, Basil?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Many meetings were held in the big barn, and the pigs occupied themselves with planning out the work of the coming season. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z He’s always known part of her resents their mom for the position they occupy in the world, for not having a normal life, for taking herself away from them. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “You should find another way to occupy your time,” he said, returning to his book. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Was it simply that four men were occupying one house? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “Very simply. Around to the right. He will occupy those heights and wait to see what we are going to do. He always has. Meade is new to the command. He will not move quickly.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They quietly occupied the stores, some sitting at tables reading and working on homework assignments, until the owners shut down their establishments in the middle of the afternoon. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He had the entire tower to himself, though his chambers occupied only the upper level. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z These events will occupy tens of billions of years, or more. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “He stands at the brink of an unwanted war. He has much to occupy his time. Besides, he is forbidden to help you directly. The gods may not show such favoritism.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The ants occupy minute tunnels just beneath the bark. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z That is to say, this is a private residence; this room, made so kindly available to me tonight by the Taylors, was once occupied by their eldest son, now long grown and living in Exeter. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z That perhaps the ways of his mother and his father had occupied whole regions of his heart. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Step two,” said Twycross, “focus your determination to occupy the visualized space! Let your yearning to enter it flood from your mind to every particle of your body!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The beepers, newspapers, and magazines were distractions—we weren’t supposed to be occupied with any of that while on the job. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Though she now occupied the side of the bed left vacant by her former mistress, the dog knew she could never pass as a viable replacement. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I occupied several hours transcribing these cries, partly because they were so colorful, partly to exercise my stenography. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Scene three quickly follows, in which men and women occupy centre stage and most large animals, along with many smaller ones, are gone. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Card playing, guessing games, impersonations, listening to gramophone records, slide lectures, reading aloud—the men found ways of entertaining themselves and keeping their thoughts occupied in the long, dark winter months. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z How long would the Soviets occupy our country? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z On his black doublet, an emblazoned gold rendering of the royal wyvern occupied the entirety of the chest. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The word itself had lost little of its power to startle and had, due to my ignorance of the physical place it occupied on the globe, assumed a peculiar life of its own. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z But without students occupying those desks and their homework tacked on the wall, that empty summer classroom seemed laden with the memory of past students and past learning that took place within those walls. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z We scurry about, in and out of our flat buildings, occupied with our flat businesses and dalliances. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There are almost 700 miles of gorgeously mountainous Appalachian Trail in New England—about a third of the AT’s total trail length—enough to keep me occupied till August. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Above the machines, wrapping around the interior of the entire station, was a vast mural that occupied, in four long segments, the upper half of the station’s main walls. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The flat occupied the top floor of a large private house owned by a man named John Oker, whose daughters managed its rental. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He likes that so many students have occupied it before him. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The guy with the Eight Ball jacket occupied a chair. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z After a few minutes the platform is empty, as is the space the train had occupied. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Thus, unlike Australia and the Americas, East Asia and most Pacific islands remain occupied by East Asian and Pacific peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z To occupy ourselves we made pots and pots of tea. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “The guard was fully occupied on patrol, every man. They keep meticulous records.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z And as he passed every other occupied hospital cell the man inside stood next to his bed and yelled, "IN!" Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z When they could not pass through the region that Octavian occupied, they were forced into the hills. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z One weekend, the washing machine is occupied because Sonia is in the process of dyeing the vast majority of her clothing black. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z To occupy her mind she sang as she gathered caribou droppings and put them on her drag: Amaroq, wolf, my friend, You are my adopted father. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z For the month or so that they are visible, all that distinguishes them from the other stars in the sky is that they occupy a point of space that wasn’t filled before. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z On Tuesday morning, March 22, the benches were occupied exclusively by the all-male venire of Finney County residents from which a jury was to be selected. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Each mansion occupied an area about three times that of the yard I lived in, yet the latter was home for over twenty families. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z These self- appointed tasks would occupy her during quiet, hot days of her summer vacation, and her mother would look on in disbelief, sipping watermelon sherbet in front of the fan. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z With her occupied, I ran across the room, streaking tears, wanting to get to the bathroom, to sit down on the toilet with the light off and splash hot water on my face. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The house he could see best, right behind the Garners’ backyard, was occupied by the Sports Family. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Then he got up, drew the grey elven-cloak about him, and to keep his mind occupied, began to walk to and fro, prying and peering into every corner of his prison. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z At the town's main inn, however, I was informed all the rooms were occupied on account of a local agricultural fair. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Agriculture was also widespread in the Americas, but hunter-gatherers occupied a larger fraction of the Americas’ area than of Eurasia’s. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He walked through first class—there were only four first-class seats, three of which were occupied. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z At the time I had my own escape to keep me occupied. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. I’m ready. It will make them happy. Besides, I’m going to be very occupied. I’m going to speak to the conservation officer about getting a falconer’s license.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Duncan is still occupied with the pony drivers, most likely arguing about the fee. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “The spells that make the attic impenetrable function only if it is occupied by children. Without children, or with adults in the room, the barriers become ineffectual.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “Okay, just a minute. I think I’ve just about got it,” he says, still occupied with the tree. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z And besides the little kids trying to occupy themselves, there’s a lot of eerie silence. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Well, your mother spends a lot of time there whenever Jeffrey is asleep or occupied, so I thought you might want to also. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He told me he occupied the two front rooms of the house where his daughter’s family lived. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z After a while, I sit at a table near the front of the room, facing the flower-strewn altar that’ll soon be occupied with a fine of people reading their eulogies to my brother. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z People occupied every possible space, yet my lavatory visit went undetected. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “She says not to bother you if you are otherwise occupied.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In the early 1800s, European traders, missionaries, and whalers began to visit New Zealand, which had been occupied 600 years previously by Polynesian farmers and fishermen known as Maoris. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Sander was out of the question, being occupied with Nick's part. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The hall was at present occupied by two deplorably sober men and their highly indignant wives. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Inkatha members then proceeded to occupy the abandoned shacks and confiscate all the property. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We interpreted this as an effort by the authorities to put us out of business, and occupied our premises illegally, with threats of eviction constantly hanging over our heads. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “We occupy three beaux arts mansions that were originally private homes. The buildings are landmarked, and our donors today are philanthropists and supporters of education for girls.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The Allies occupied the city, and there they would house us until they figured out what to do with us. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z He is old enough to know that he himself will be burned, not buried, that his body will occupy no plot of earth, that no stone in this country will bear his name beyond life. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The whole of that town was occupied in making preparations to repel the assaults of rebellion. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It’s the arena, not rendered in Peeta’s precise strokes but in the rough lines of a man whose mind is occupied by other, far more complex things. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z According to Archimedes’ principle, if water were to occupy the volume of the block which is under water, that water would weigh the same as the whole block. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Quite a few of those families occupy large contiguous areas—in the case of Indo-European, the area encompassing most of Europe east through much of western Asia to India. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She had plenty to occupy her in the pages of notes she’d been building up. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I love seeing his neighborhood through his eyes, the way his memories occupy every block. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z So they decided that Hershel would continue alone to Narewka, and my father would return to Kraków and take his chances with the occupying army. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Behind the drumming pain inside his head, he had one thought: to keep them occupied with him, to keep them away from the next ridge. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, well, yes,” Dr. Cullen agreed, suddenly occupied with the papers in front of him. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z A pile of mangels and swedes occupied them for some time and they set out only when the light was beginning to fade. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And that was when Mary began to see the connection between the mulefa and the question that had occupied the past few years of her life. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Scattered across the lawn were benches and chairs, most of them occupied with patients and their visitors. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “Colonel, I have to ask your help. You see the big hill there, the wooded hill? 'Hiere’s nobody there. I think. General Warren wants that hill occupied. Could you do that?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was now Greek troops who occupied Bursa. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I had spent the day wearily over books, and, simply to keep my mind occupied, went over some of the matters I had been examining at Lincoln’s Inn. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Ugwu glanced at Baby, who was occupied with the newspaper wrapping. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The ticking of the big clock became so loud that President Washington and President Lincoln, who occupied the wall space to either side of it, exchanged a look of shared displeasure. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z It was a question that would occupy his thoughts for most of the next decade and lead to the publication in early 1917 of a paper entitled "Cosmological Considerations on the General Theory of Relativity." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Penny needs to be changed and kept occupied. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z But for now, he was sending a message on the lodestone resonator, and his attention was fully occupied with the movement of the bow and his fingers. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Gale has shown up for training every day unless occupied with other approved duties. We feel confident he can manage himself in the field,” says Coin. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I mentioned that I had recently read an article in an Afrikaans magazine about the 1914 Afrikaner Rebellion, and I mentioned how they had occupied towns in the Free State. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Chinese doing computer drawings for Japanese homes, nearly seventy years after a rapacious Japanese army occupied China, razing many homes in the process. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z People who had occupied the carriages in front were already hurrying up the stone steps into the castle. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The chamber occupied the place where hearts would go in a true body, so that was what they called it, but that was just their own term. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The top crates towered high above him, and the whole slatted, gobbling tenement occupied more space than the boarded-up station. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z The hospital was quite busy, too, and that kept her occupied. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The sum total of these chains makes a web in which every work of art occupies its own specific place. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Many of these animals,” the Society warned, “occupy only small areas and therefore might readily be completely exterminated.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He now resumed the book with which he had been occupied before tea. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z In fact, if even one white passenger wanted to sit in a row occupied by four black riders, the driver would glance up and yell, “I need those seats!” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Everyone pretended to occupy themselves with their fingernails or clothing, but they could hear every word. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z To occupy my mind and keep me from spiraling out of control, I tried to come up with an explanation for why the sluggers chose me to save the planet. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The modern United States is a European-molded society, occupying lands conquered from Native Americans and incorporating the descendants of millions of sub-Saharan black Africans brought to America as slaves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was no secret from the Germans, of course, or from the Russians, who occupied Dresden after the war, who are in Dresden still. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Africa has parasites so particular and diverse as to occupy every niche of the body: intestines small and large, the skin, the bladder, the male and female reproductive tracts, interstitial fluids, even the cornea. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We tried to pretend the other didn’t exist even though the existence of our nemeses kept us both occupied for hours. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Must not let those men occupy the high ground. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The rim arced through the sky at a height of 264 feet, as high as the topmost occupied floor in Burnham’s Masonic Temple, the city’s tallest skyscraper. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Only after exhausting all the other stories of the wedding did they broach the topic that occupied both of their minds. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Before World War II, the Japanese who occupied the Korean Peninsula and northeast China pushed tens of thousands of Korean farmers across the border to weaken China’s hold on the region. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z As explained by historian Edmund Morgan, in colonies like Virginia, the planter elite, with huge land grants, occupied a vastly superior position to workers of all colors. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z By the time night falls, the infirmary is quiet, occupied by bodies and ghosts. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Situated 11,300 feet above sea level, Namche occupies a huge, tilting bowl proportioned like a giant satellite television dish, midway up a precipitous mountainside. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z But very different peoples may have occupied much of modern black Africa until as recently as a few thousand years ago, and so-called African blacks themselves are heterogeneous. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The victorious Allies divided Germany into four occupied zones: Russian, French, British, and American. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z An hour before meeting time, when all the family seemed occupied, she slipped out of the house and set out along High Street with a hard little lump of dread crowding her ribs. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z On the way here, two stacks of solar panels occupied the whole roof. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Growing food and eating it occupied most of their time. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The young dog spent most of the day still occupied with his ceaseless foraging for food. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I shall have to resort to the scenery to keep me occupied,” she thought, turning her mind to the task. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Dana and his cronies customarily occupied the back rows and seldom bothered the kids sitting up near the driver. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Some can occupy the same space at the same moment. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z After briefly occupying the cold northern tip of Honshu, Yayoi farmers abandoned that area, presumably because rice farming just could not compete there with the Jomon hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He kept the minds of the barons of Castile occupied with this, so that, concentrating on that war, they did not consider rebellion. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z One of the chairs was occupied by a woman frantically pressing buttons as the Berg shot forward, trees disappearing below them at an increasing rate. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Tallmadge had been born on Long Island, which, like New York City, was occupied by the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He doesn’t seem to be occupying the office, the position. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The queen’s apartments, and his own, occupied the highest step. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z One rainy day, with his mother shut in her room, he occupies himself bouncing a ball against the living room wall. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The team that occupied most of the new building managed its own section of computers, like all the laboratory’s divisions now. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z If there was a spirit occupying the attic, it was cold and angry, and the incident with the haint on the trolley was still fresh in Ophie’s mind. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z A Jules Verne hi-fi, all silvery knobs and dials, occupied one corner of the solarium. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z There is no space for it to occupy, no place for it to be. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The hut they occupied was larger and far grander than any at the Night Zoo. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z When your life has had few events to occupy it, it’s amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z His fingers move through without stopping, but there is a soft resistance, the impression that there is something occupying the space, even if it is not completely solid. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The invasion, liberation and freedom will come someday; yet England, not the occupied territories, will choose the moment. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Behind them is another line of chairs, all occupied now. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z "After all, it's a pub. They can't occupy a whole pub." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Mine was the front bedroom, overlooking the street, while Gramps occupied two rooms in the back of the house. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Big Dub and Jackie Harris, one of the school’s best players, occupied the third court. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z High Blade Xenocrates sat on a plush sofa in the grandiose mansion that had, until just two days ago, been occupied by the late Scythe Goddard. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Her elbows stuck out like wings, and a huge white enameled tub occupied the space above her head, somewhat miraculously holding steady while her head moved in quick jerks to the right and left. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And keep my royal nephew occupied as well. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The translation of a few pages of German occupied an hour; then I got my palette and pencils, and fell to the more soothing, because easier occupation, of completing Rosamond Oliver’s miniature. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Mary Alice brought her jump rope to keep herself occupied, though she said jumping rope by yourself was the loneliest job in the world. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z There is nothing at all, not so much as a bent blade of grass, to indicate that anything had occupied the space hours before. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Seeing how my hands were occupied, my face sort of broke the fall, hitting the wall first, a millisecond before my foot slipped into the brimming trough. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Percy and Reyna occupied matching praetors’ chairs on the dais, which made Percy self-conscious. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Whole villages had been depopulated—indeed, the foreigners ahead now occupied one of the empty sites. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z General Russell’s office occupied a corner of a low-slung Second World War barracks that had been recently plastered with stucco in a hopeless effort to make it look new. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no stoop as a store occupied the street floor of the house. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Sonia is still living there with his mother, settled back into the room she had occupied as a girl. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “How can we recapture Enugu when the vandals have occupied it?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, the only bathroom I found was occupied…so I went back outside. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z With her fair skin and dulcet West Virginia accent, Katherine might have occupied a fluid racial middle ground, easing her acceptance at the center. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Rainfall, at any time of the day or night, stopped all other business; for as long as it fell, I held up the rain catchers and was feverishly occupied storing their catch. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I occupied myself by searching Mother’s Burda fashion magazine for the faces of girls I liked. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z The bar is beginning to fill up, small groups occupying each of the booths, people sitting on either side of them. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z No new fireworks went off, nor was there any indication given about what now occupied his mind. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Some of the rooms were occupied by sleeping old men—he peeked carefully into each one—but most were empty, rooms that belonged to members of the order still enjoying the festivities. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z For these reasons, Louis XII, King of France, quickly occupied Milan and just as quickly lost it. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z After a week of classes, practice, Mom’s endless phone calls to other parents, and paranoia occupying my every stray thought, Friday arrived. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z So if God chose temporarily to create more water he would have simultaneously to destroy the matter that currently occupied the space into which he was going to place the water. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z We passed one rundown motel after another, some occupied more than others. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The child to be born at Randalls must be a tie there even dearer than herself; and Mrs. Weston’s heart and time would be occupied by it. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Territorial empires directly occupy territories with their armies, throw out the old rulers, and annex the land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It ended only when it had run out of targets and almost every habitable Pacific island had been occupied. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The MTA, he would recollect, “occupied most of my time for the next two years. It was not a happy time.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By Ottoman law, Turks must occupy a city’s highest ground, so the convoy is high above the city now, heading down. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The library occupied an entire building on one side of Bilbollio Square. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It occupies so much space in her house she must step carefully around it in the dark. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z This topic had occupied my thinking for a while because all the adults around me were always discussing what it meant to be white, or the advantages of being light skinned among our people. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Sitting in the thin sharp light of the drugstore playing with a long spoon in a tall glass made her think of another woman occupying herself at a table pretending to drink from a cup. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a relief not to be writing out the she saids, or describing the weather or the onset of spring or her heroines face—beauty, she had discovered, occupied a narrow band. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z On the contrary, she believes they have it within their power to build a bigger, better and more beautiful world, but that they occupy themselves with superficial things, without giving a thought to true beauty. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I could also use voice commands to move around, if my hands were otherwise occupied. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z There it sat, occupying important intellectual ground, at just the time when entomology was emerging as an experimental science of considerable power, capable of solving matters of intricate detail, a paradigm of the new reductionism. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Here were two successive experiments in human development, in which the environment was identical and the sole variable was the people occupying that environment. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As for Eurasia’s head start, humans have occupied Eurasia for about a million years, far longer than they have lived in the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “But who told Odenigbo that he can make it past occupied roads? Who told him?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It was clear that the file, the new contract, occupied her mind. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He lived on the Flanders side of the Dodendraad electric fence that had been built to separate occupied Belgium from Holland. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He occupied himself by inventing the differential and integral calculus, making fundamental discoveries on the nature of light and laying the foundation for the theory of universal gravitation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you feel like occupying the middle ground at the Third Battle of Manassas. If I were you, I’d keep well out of it.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Naheed would get her own room back when Uncle Iman and Aunt Judith left the next day, but for now her little sister occupied the trundle bed right below. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z The captain sat down in the chair Horse had occupied and placed his black revolver on the table. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I can hear the thud of Finnick’s trident finding another mark and know his weapon is occupied. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z In a city occupied by the enemy, away from the protection of family in Narewka, she nearly broke down. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z While her dog occupied himself by staring out the window at a bird, Hyacinth took out sewing supplies and sheets of red and green felt. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z His home occupied the two top floors and overlooked the town square. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z It was the third week of June and the field had already been occupied several times. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Rusty hoops on the swaying poles represented the permanent recreational equipment, although bats and balls could be borrowed from the P. E. teacher if the borrower was qualified and if the diamond wasn’t occupied. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Cheating practice” occupied the Mysterious Benedict Society for two full hours that night. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z He said, “We were a long way from Svalbard, and the bears were occupied with their own affairs.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It occupied the top floor of a white town house and had windows that looked out onto trees. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Still, looking at the recliner, which was occupied, I felt the pre-concert buzz that had carried me over to Delaney’s evaporate. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z At the end of the paved road they turned left down a rutted dirt lane; only the last house seemed to be occupied. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z A framed black-and-white photograph of the nation’s thirty-third president occupies a wall just inside the front entrance. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He needed to occupy his mind with something. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Every table, including Hannah’s in the far back corner, is occupied. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z The way they run things on Six North has become clear to me: it’s all about keeping people occupied and passing the time. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The pleasant weather—and the warnings of the coming Indiana winter, which scared those who’d never seen snow—kept them occupied. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z To her left, a fireplace occupied most of the wall, and as Chaol led her farther into the room, Celaena tried not to stare at the thing. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Around fifteen thousand years ago, they began to occupy seven areas. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Some of the seats were occupied by men studying Talmud, reading from the Book of Psalms, or talking among themselves in Yiddish. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The temperature had dropped even more in the last hour, but he’d been so occupied that he’d not had a chance to think about it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I lay on my stomach, crossing my ankles in the air, flipping through the different novels in the book, trying to decide which would occupy my mind the most thoroughly. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z My father stands and pulls out the one chair at the table that isn’t occupied. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z If only he was better occupied, if only he had something to do in which the moments of grief that sneaked up on him could be immersed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In order to occupy Eliot she supplied him with the comics section of the newspaper, and crackers spread with peanut butter, and sometimes a Popsicle, or carrot sticks sculpted with her blade. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Mothers and soldiers are enemies of freedom. I am doubly occupied.” Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Every cot was occupied with injured women and children, many on straw mats on the floor. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He looks through me like the physical space I occupy is empty. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z He’s going to play with the twins, to keep them occupied while Mrs. Hameed finishes packing her Thanksgiving catering orders and Sara and I come up with a new recipe. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z In this book on human population movements since the end of the Ice Ages, the Austronesian expansion occupies a central place, as one of the most important phenomena to be explained. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Everyone on deck is occupied in their own particular obsession. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The two women had lived together 'on the far side of the campus in “The Cottage” a shingled bower that occupied a place in school mythology akin to Lincoln’s log cabin in national legend. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The French occupied land in the Mississippi Valley called Louisiana and much of the land north of the Saint Lawrence River. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The benches that had been filled by Walter's supporters the previous day were now mostly occupied by older white people. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Every task we were assigned was just glorified busywork to keep our hands moving, our bodies occupied, and our minds dead with boredom. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z It was the same sort of speaker that occupied a place in every dwelling, but one thing about it was different. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Annex: “Don’t you remember Goebbels saying that if the Germans have to go, they’ll slam the doors to all the occupied territories behind them?” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z There were accommodations for plenty of people, but only a few chairs were occupied at this midnight hour. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z And in his lucid moments, death occupied him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I know not how she occupied herself before breakfast, but after that meal she divided her time into regular portions, and each hour had its allotted task. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The employees spread out from one side of the room to the other, from foreground to background, a mass occupying the enormous space like gas filling a hot air balloon. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Pax watched for a while longer to be certain the war-sick were occupied, then crossed over the remaining span of rushing water along a fallen tree. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Glancing at the bookcases, I thought I could distinguish the two volumes of Bewick’s British Birds occupying their old place on the third shelf, and Gulliver’s Travels and the Arabian Nights ranged just above. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The family lets Amélie do most of the talking when the Nazis occupy their kitchen—she appears to have a head full of feathers but utterly charms the visitors with her fluent Alsatian German. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z An equal number, she said, occupied the surrounding countryside. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Less than one in five were occupied, thin tendrils of woodsmoke curling up from their chimneys. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The room is empty of everything but the bed in which I lie, a small table, and a plain wooden chair occupied by a dozing Helene. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She turned her chair around to face the table and occupied herself with her water glass, twisting the stem around, making damp links on the white cloth. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z From the time I leave Addie’s house Tuesday night until eleven in the a.m. on Thursday, all that occupies my mind is the mess I have gotten myself into by agreeing to give this speech. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z The regime he imposed was draconian: He subtracted the labor that kept Pennsylvania’s inmates occupied during the day in their cells, as well as the opportunity they had for daily exercise. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The freedom to inspect the road and trees kept him occupied for a while, but then he tired of this constant inspection and slithered between Anya and Ivan. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Now that they were married, they needed a bigger, nicer place than what they currently occupied in the castle. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They would have thrived, increased in numbers, and gradually spread south to occupy the whole hemisphere. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “By reducing its half-life, you will be able to occupy the planet far sooner,” I go on, hoping she won’t be able to resist. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Dussel looked very sullen, didn't speak to me for two days and made sure he occupied the table from five to five-thirty—all very childish, of course. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The fifth seat at the table was occupied by Percy Weasley. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It has been occupied for longer than any other continent except Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As if merely subsisting according to his self-imposed rules weren’t strenuous enough, Rosellini also exercised compulsively whenever he wasn’t occupied with foraging. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “To begin with, I should like a plan of the Istanbul-Calais coach, with a note of the people who occupied the several compartments, and I should also like to see their passports and their tickets.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z He came from somewhere outside the small world Bobby Gene and I occupied. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I visited the rooms that had been occupied by my Uncle Mendel’s family. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The question occupied much of the second half of his career, but he never came anywhere near getting it right. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The courthouse is an imposing, old, pillared brick building occupying a full city block, but the entrance is off to the side, down a set of steps. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Kainene will come back. One woman from Umudioka went on afia attack and the vandals occupied that sector so she was cut off for four months. She came back to her family yesterday.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “The basic principle of physical science is this: two bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Do you understand that?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z In Grandfather’s town, the house with the upstairs balcony, where he had watched the Nazis arrive six years earlier, was also occupied by strangers. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z One half of the chamber’s interior was occupied by a hollow semicircular electrode shaped like the letter D and known forever more as a “dee.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They were far too occupied with one another to notice the awful tension that had settled over our group. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z In these theories the basic objects are not particles, which occupy a single point of space, but things that have a length but no other dimension, like an infinitely thin piece of string. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I said the attackers could easily be found because they were now occupying the shacks of the people they had killed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And finally the thirteen colonies, spread along the eastern seaboard and stretching inward to the Alleghenies and beyond into unexplored forests occupied by hostile Indian tribes, had no history of enduring cooperation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Each band of a few dozen hunters occupies a large territory, within which they can acquire most of the resources essential to them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The huge high bed Auntie Venus had occupied for so long without complaint had gone, and so had the carved trousseau chest and the green silk sofa. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Like our home, this is a place that he has no right, but ultimately every right, to occupy. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z As he does his rounds, he makes sure everyone is occupied with their particular trivial pursuits. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The ground floor of the Wailing Tower was given over to storerooms and granaries, and two floors above housed part of the garrison, but the upper stories had not been occupied for eighty years. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I was so occupied with one of my new books that I missed the whole idea of what we were supposed to do with them. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z We contacted the occupying German authorities, but they were uninterested because she was not a soldier. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Anyone who tries to occupy this ‘best of both worlds’ position needs to face up to a further challenge, that of fleshing out the notion that nature pushes back. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Chief Rain-in-the-Face, the Sioux chief who had killed Custer’s brother and now occupied Sitting Bull’s cabin in the Midway, wore green paint that streamed down his face. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Many of the rebel houses that were occupied by the British army had burned to the ground. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The party occupies an entire hallway, the doors of the individual rooms all open. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, as well as particles, which occupy a single point of space, and strings, which are lines, there were found to be other objects called p-branes, which occupied two- dimensional or higher-dimensional volumes in space. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There were six cots in the room, all occupied. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Every nook was occupied by a chair, a teetering pile of books, or both. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Jane’s curiosity did not appear of that absorbing nature as wholly to occupy her. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z On one side of the room sat half a dozen women, all in white; they were much occupied with a beautiful baby, who seemed to belong to the youngest of the women. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Himmelstoss put these two so that one occupied the upper and the other the lower bunk. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Subjects are special: all verbs have one, and it sits outside the verb phrase, occupying one of the two major branches of the clause, the other being the predicate. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Holly, bearing it as well as he could, growled and scuffled, and Silver cast about for something to occupy his attention. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z To keep the crowd occupied while this happens, the band plays a concert and the clowns, including Walter, tour the stands, handing out candy and chucking tots’ chins. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I was occupied so entirely by each day, I felt detached from anything so large as a month or a year. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z So he occupies himself with theoretical stratagems: what would he do if he were in their place, the place of the men with pillowcase heads? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z We associate with the people who occupy the same small, physical spaces that we do. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Big Dub saw it as a way to keep his players’ grades up and Siobhan occupied after school. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She returned home in the Emperor’s open carriage with her cousin and the young keeper, and none of them spoke a word on the way, each occupied by their own thoughts. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Silence can say more than noise, in the same way that a person’s absence can occupy even more space than their presence did. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Being an American is hard enough; being a Nisei among these occupying forces is sometimes agony. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Out in the forsaken city, every other structure, it seems, is burning or collapsing, but here in front of him is the inverse in miniature: the city remains, but the house he occupies is gone. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I don’t know how to occupy my mind without my whole self being busy. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “Tennessee occupies a pivotal position and the eyes of all America are upon us,” he said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z They don’t want to believe that the place I occupied for eighteen months was anything less than a dreamy waiting room. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Black and brown people in ghetto communities must no longer be viewed as the designated enemy, and ghetto communities must no longer be treated like occupied zones. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Yet he cannot picture his family occupying a house like this, playing board games on rainy afternoons, watching shooting stars at night, all their relatives gathered neatly on a small strip of sand. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Originally, though, the smaller Canteen Creek alone occupied that channel. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z All but seven of the pods are already occupied. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z A dry rag, for buffing surfaces, occupies the right-hand pocket of your slacks. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The second man, Inspector Guthrie, seemed content to occupy the sidelines. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z This room doesn't feel occupied; the bed is piled with a half-finished sewing project. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The graduating students occupied Room 8 of the Ember School. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In Soweto the police were an occupying army. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z This was evidently the portion of the castle occupied by the ladies in bygone days, for the furniture had more air of comfort than any I had seen. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The famous Java Homo erectus fossils prove that humans have occupied at least western Indonesia for a million years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She still occupied rooms in a nearby boardinghouse. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As we sat in silence, the man whose hut we had occupied came in. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z All work on the Hyperatomic Drive through all the space volume occupied by the Stations of the Twenty-Seventh Asteroidal Grouping came to a halt. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The city hanging there so empty and silent looked new-made, waiting to be occupied; or asleep, waiting to be woken. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z You began to cry, and I wanted to turn around and tell you it was all just a bad dream, but I was fully occupied with keeping Basta’s knife away from me with Capricorn’s sword. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Francisco Pizarro, now governor of Peru, was learning that to avoid outbreaks of feckless violence he needed to keep his men occupied at all times. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The rest of the men occupied themselves the best they could. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I try to occupy the hall with my voice, but I can't fill my belly with enough breath. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z We were occupied in the usual manner on the day of the eighth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z THE district offices were located in a converted church structure, the main floor of which was occupied by a pawn shop, its window crammed with loot that gleamed dully in the darkened street. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z They occupy a massive acropolis with fifteen giant columns atop the only high ground, overlooking the pond. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As a boy I was occupied with the gods and sacrifices, as a youth with asceticism, with thinking and meditation. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z But, over time, the middle ground that people like Sprat and Bentley had sought to occupy between superstition and rationalism became increasingly embattled, and the pendulum began to swing the other way. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And when you are taking a bath, or brushing your teeth, or otherwise occupied, you will play the victrolas.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Only her perfume lingers in the space she occupied moments before. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A particle occupies one point of space at each instant of time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z All winter the Opel roves occupied territories, cities that Jutta recorded in their radio log coming to life—Prague, Minsk, Ljubljana. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They occupied the town; and we, yards from the shore, heard tales of skirmish and indignity. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z They occupied the secondary schools and university campuses. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The Señora occupied all but the tiniest sliver of the seat. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z There were six men to occupy four bunks. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Of course I won’t. I am occupied at the moment with an especially succinct passage.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A side door jutted forward, breaking some kind of seal with a pressurized hiss, then slid aside giving them a view of plush leather seats occupied by two almost familiar people. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The booths on the second floor have no numbers, only lights indicating whether they are occupied. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Bookcases line the walls on either side of me, but they seem to be decorative more than anything, because computers occupy the tables in the center of the room, and no one is reading. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Similar limitations on the resources accessible to existing human technology prevail in the regions of the world recently occupied by other bands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A string, on the other hand, occupies a line in space at each moment of time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Refugees from the now occupied blocks are streaming toward the Capitol’s center. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z His farm, like about two-thirds of the farms in the state, occupied less than ten acres—unviably small by the standards of developed nations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But that was our principal’s seat, and already occupied. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But the Doctrine of Discovery, which was ingrained in the mind-set of European colonizers, assured Christians that whatever land they saw was theirs to occupy and use. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Straddling the border of France and Switzerland, it employs three thousand people and occupies a site that is measured in square miles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Eventually, he led me into a huge open room that appeared to occupy most of the 106th floor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z With Philippa occupied, Nehemia and Dorian had taken to attending her—and the prince often read aloud to her long into the night. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Instead, everyone had to be wary of the soldiers occupying their town. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z A large one in the center of town occupied four streets, and another smaller one extended over several alleyways on the outskirts of town. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Greta and Captain Cook always occupied the chairs nearest the open windows. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z A fair-minded examination of the counterevidence can then occupy as much space as it needs, because its bulk will reflect its importance within that section. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It was the last continent to be occupied by Europeans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Until recently, researchers would have said the highlands in 1000 a.d. were occupied by scattered small villages and one or two big towns with some nice stonework. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z During the six months that he occupied a desk in our office, I had never heard him shooting off his mouth on subjects about which he knew nothing. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z All this occupied what had been the royal palace before the current queen’s grandfather built a finer one straddling the Eder and gifted this one to the Scholars’ Guild. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Gardner "Gus" Hathaway had only recently become director of counterintelligence, having taken over the post once occupied by the notoriously paranoid James Jesus Angleton. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The weaver glanced over, her hands still occupied. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He soon gravitated to the twenty-seven- inch cyclotron, which occupied the ramshackle old Rad Lab next door to Lewis’s domain, Gilman Hall. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The nearby gym was occupied by fellows either practicing basketball or boxing calisthenics and the walls echoed with thuddings, bouncings and whistles blowing, like a grotesque sound track. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They made their way throughout Germany and occupied Europe. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z How did an unattached white woman occupy herself in South Carolina? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Bull and Lillian occupied the fourth row above the scorer’s table. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Downstairs, I snag the game bag off the chair, bouncing it along the floor until I remember it’s occupied. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It's possible that some of the rooms were occupied by regular people, down on their luck, but my wing was full of the broken, and I was at home among them. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z His mind had been occupied with Chuck and now Teresa. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z It was not until i960 that money was somehow found to pay the expenses of one field assistant — to do work that could easily have occupied the time of four men. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A thorough reconnaissance will clearly occupy us for centuries. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He appears to be lost in thought and whatever has got his brain cells occupied is having a strange effect on his facial muscles. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z I look over at the adults, occupied with plans and forms. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “Nonsense. If nothing else, it will keep your mind occupied,” said Wednesday, unlocking the car. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Under the window, and occupying nearly a quarter of the room, was an enormous bed with the mattress still on it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “When Stalin occupied Lithuania, my family fled,” I said. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z But no sooner was he in Milan than he did the opposite, providing assistance to Pope Alexander so that he could occupy the Romagna. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The man occupied us all in life and is still holding on to his claim. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The top eighteen floors were occupied by the College of Emotional Engineering. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z When that was going on, it definitely was not guilt that occupied my mind. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z If there had been any irons aboard, they would have been occupied by the fumbling landlubber or scurvy swab who forgot his duties and made Dad miss the mooring. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Shady occupied himself by scrubbing down the bar top. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Now it’s not just the Jews, but Holland and all of occupied Europe. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z In place of Miss Trixie, a brown paper bag filled with old pieces of material, and a ball of twine occupied the chair. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally he got up and went into the main house to dust the furniture, something mild and mindless that would keep him occupied. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Folks—friends!” he calls across the crowd of about thirty people who take up the space usually occupied by Marlena’s horses. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z In order to deny the Klansmen seats one evening, Ann’s group arrived at the meeting early and occupied all the empty chairs. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Some of the doorways were occupied by fascinated teachers in their empty classrooms. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Where population densities are moderate, as in regions occupied by food-producing tribes, no large vacant areas remain to which survivors of a defeated band can flee. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They dragged it out beyond the patience of the people who were standing waiting to occupy their seats. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I dodge my way through the chaos to the bedroom and drag my sack from beneath the bed, bringing it out to the kitchen while everyone is occupied. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The Gathering Hall occupied one entire side of Harken Square, which was the city’s central plaza. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In the course of that expansion, Austronesians came to occupy all habitable areas of those islands, from the seacoast to the interior, and from the lowlands to the mountains. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The First Cohort stood closest to the onager - a little too close for Nico’s comfort - but they seemed occupied by a couple of officers parading in front of them, shouting orders. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Called "On the Constitutions of Atoms and Molecules," the paper explained how electrons could keep from falling into the nucleus by suggesting that they could occupy only certain well-defined orbits. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Even though the people are spread out, it’s the most occupied I’ve seen this level of the ship. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Everyone else in the company was occupied with some task. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Others are released again, only to find themselves in precisely the circumstances they occupied before, unable to cope with the stigma of the prison label and their permanent pariah status. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, an empty seat, also in the front row, which Fischer was to have occupied, remained conspicuously vacant. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Trusting to the fact that Hagrid wouldn’t miss him, with the attractions of four dragons and Madame Maxime to occupy him, he turned silently and began to walk away, back to the castle. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “Places where Crazy Horse and our ancestors also walked. We occupied the same space they did, saw the same kinds of plants, heard the same kinds of birds. The only thing separating us is time.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Before the British occupied the city, Stansbury taunted Patriots by singing “God Save the King,” urging them to join him in the chorus. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z That first week we began the work that would occupy us for the next few months. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1918, when Germany was defeated, the occupying troops withdrew and returned to their homeland. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The Great Masters of Meereen occupied the red and orange benches. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We were all Jews being shipped around occupied Poland like coal or meat. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Brother Luke brought him food, kept him washed, and changed his clothes, but he was too much occupied with other things to stay with Robin for very long at a time. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z We occupied the land, the forests, the rivers; we extracted the mineral wealth beneath the soil and all the riches of this beautiful country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The dog was small, curly-haired, and it occupied her lap rather than sat in it. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z One wall was crowded with tacked-up plans and schematics; another was piled high with tinkerer junk; the bench TimeStar occupied was littered with snipped wires, and tools, and computer equipment. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z We went to a furnished room occupied by one of his friends, who understood the situation immediately and got his coat and left us alone. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In the newly occupied countries, Jews were forced to sew yellow Stars of David on their clothes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z A soldier led us to Yele, a village that was occupied by the military. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I occupied myself with memorizing the room; the striped pattern of the couches, tan, peach, cream, dull gold, and tan again. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z She tried to think of something to occupy herself. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z She looks at Mother, her eyes hopeful, filled with the something that occupied Claire’s just a moment ago. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The private area of the White House occupies about twenty thousand square feet on the top two stories of the main historical structure—the one you’d recognize from photos with its iconic white pillars. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z An army tank led me into urban battle once; a swimming pool turned me into myth; I’ve left my body in order to occupy others—and all this happened before I turned sixteen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Holmes believed he and Chamberlin would be meeting alone, one on one, but when Holmes arrived at the office, he found it occupied by two dozen creditors and their attorneys and one police detective. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And if we are a speck in the immensity of space, we also occupy an instant in the expanse of ages. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered, riding in the passenger seat of my mom’s car one afternoon, whether there would ever be a break in the silence that now seemed to occupy all of my family’s time together. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z You say little of your daily life; I have no idea how you occupy yourself. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He seemed taller lying down, occupying the length of the mattress, and I remembered what he had said about simply reaching out to pluck icheku from the tree, in his youth. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I would be better occupied in learning the stonecutter’s trade as well as I can. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I looked at An Yi to see if she would like to join me, but while I was hesitating, the board became fully occupied. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I observed you with General Lee. I would imagine that there are weighty technical matters that occupy your mind.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Apparently, however, for all his mysterious powers Helenus was not aware that Sicily, at least the southern part, was now occupied by the Cyclopes, for he did not warn the Trojans against landing there. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z If the dish were occupied, where would they go? The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z For all her exposure to ideology she had no interest in politics and no idea of the schemes that occupied her husband night and day. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “During the first weeks she boarded at a distance, but later, from about the 1st of March until the 15th of May, 1893, she occupied rooms in the same building and adjoining my offices.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Your friends, after all, occupy the same world that you do. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She had her own thoughts to occupy her in any case. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Rose Park occupies a whole block, and a tall chain-link fence surrounds it. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Jewish artists and intellectuals of all kinds fled Nazism, and music by Jews, Communists and Blacks was banned in the Third Reich and its occupied territories. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “No, I’m not. I counted them. I got started counting, so I kept on—just to keep my mind occupied.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z He sniffed around the lodge, found no scents to say the house was occupied by people, and squeezed under the porch. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Furthermore, only about one-third of its area falls within the sub-Saharan zone north of the equator that was occupied by farmers and herders before 1000 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The room inside looked just like in my dream, except this time the throne of Hades was occupied. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z It had a large number of fairly well dressed young men hanging around out front, not drinking or gambling, not visibly occupied with anything except paying close attention to passing cars. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Every bed was occupied, and new cases were left on the stretchers and laid between the beds to take advantage of the transfusion stands. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z As Riefenstahl’s influence continued to grow, Goebbels increasingly struggled to comprehend how a woman could occupy such a situation, much as he struggled to understand why his wife objected so strenuously to his many affairs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Now the town was occupied by an enemy force, and everyone was uneasy. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z But it didn’t last long, and I had other things to occupy my attention. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z From then on, Elizebeth sometimes had a chance to deal with new kinds of traffic, including messages from occupied China. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In June 1940, France, having suffered devastating losses in battle, signed an armistice that allowed the German army to occupy much of Northern and Western France. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Now that a lot of the adults have “jobs,” most of them are occupied during the day. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I lived in north London, in Finsbury Park, in a house occupied entirely by penniless Bengali bachelors like myself, at least a dozen and sometimes more, all struggling to educate and establish ourselves abroad. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Like the rest of the world, most of the present Austronesian realm—Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, and many Pacific islands—was originally occupied by hunter-gatherers lacking pottery, polished stone tools, domestic animals, and crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At the inn on our first night, she informed me I had taken the space in their carriage that would otherwise have been occupied by their maid. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I told the crowd that we one day would occupy these buildings as the first democratically elected government of South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She quickly occupied herself with tossing the chopped cucumber into the pitcher of salted, watered- down yogurt. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Like Ashoke, busy with his teaching and research and dissertation seven days a week, she, too, now has something to occupy her fully, to demand her utmost devotion, her last ounce of strength. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The couches up front were occupied by students reading their paperbacks of Hemingway and Faulkner with highlighters in hand. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z “No,” he says, picking up a notebook to occupy his hands. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Those postulated rates of spread and of population increase are very low compared with actual known rates for peoples occupying previously uninhabited or sparsely inhabited lands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z So we walked into the living room, where one side of the couch was occupied. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Three or four Ayorthaians at a time occupy the stage in turn and sing long, sad ballads or happy tunes or funny ones, joined by the whole throng in the choruses. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He was drunk; I could see it in the way he was sitting, not in an inebriated manner per se but as if a different person—a sluggish, sullen one—had occupied his body. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z But the nations of Europe that were occupied by the Germans were still fully under their military control. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The Beats had scrambled to their posts, which wasn’t easy, since the train car was occupied. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z It wasn’t just slaughterhouses and meatpacking factories that occupied the Yards’ four hundred acres. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z When Germany annexed Austria in March of 1938 and occupied the Sudentenland area of Czechoslovakia six months later, discrimination against Jews increased there as well. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Each chunk, no matter how much information is packed inside it, occupies a single slot in working memory. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The British army could occupy Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, and it did. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Her hands are occupied with steadying a rough crutch made from a broken branch. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The inside of the sukkah was occupied mostly by a wooden table and chairs. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Then they’d forcibly remove people from illegally occupying some white area and drop them off in the middle of nowhere with some pallets of plywood and corrugated iron. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Washington could slow down Howe, but his ragged army had little chance of keeping the British from sending troops from New York to occupy Philadelphia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Mark did, desperate to get his mind occupied with something other than imagining every horrible scenario possible. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Her change in status has left Justice a little off balance, seeing the world from two vantage points at the same time: the one she grew up in and the one she occupies now. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z While American blacks of African descent originated mainly from Africa’s west coastal zone, similar peoples traditionally occupied East Africa as well, north to the Sudan and south to the southeast coast of South Africa itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Outside, in the space the garden formerly occupied beyond the terrace, the area has been excavated to sit a level deeper, sunken into the earth. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They could occupy the entirety of the space, free from the signs constricting their physical movements and the double consciousness that throttled their souls. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Here, do come down from there and share a cup of tea with me. You’ve had a long journey, I’d imagine, and a rude shock, finding your home occupied by a stranger.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “He said he has to go and bury her. But the roads are occupied. The roads are occupied,” she said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Along the rooftops, more of them occupy nests of machine guns. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z One could walk through China, from Manchuria in the north to the Gulf of Tonkin in the south, while remaining entirely within land occupied by native speakers of Mandarin and its relatives. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Just ... I don’t know. Get him away from this door, try to keep him occupied for a bit.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z "My sister is otherwise occupied. Is this Stark's letter?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Food was scarce; in a nation at war, much of it occupied by enemy troops, it was difficult to grow and gather crops. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z And Ruth being occupied would help out with that, because what I had planned definitely wasn’t something Ruth would okay. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z So arithmetic was a warm and human thing to Francie and occupied many lonely hours of her time. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact Nils seemed to want us to talk, if only to keep her occupied while he entertained the other guests. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Hector is busy emptying all of our things out of one of the trash bags, so that should occupy him for a while. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z A mule and three horses occupied the stalls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Every single seat on the bus was occupied. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She had more than enough to occupy her thoughts at the moment. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Frozen cars occupied the road, nearly bumper to bumper, only the narrowest of gaps between them. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z While they were occupied with trying to kill each other, I loaded my canoe quick as could be. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z One table in twenty was occupied at this hour of the morning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The house had sixteen rooms on two floors, was surrounded by “superb old trees,” and occupied a long rectangle of land that stretched to the lake. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z There, round the long table, sat half a dozen farmers and half a dozen of the more eminent pigs, Napoleon himself occupying the seat of honour at the head of the table. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The huge head, its center marked by a heap of stones that may once have been an altar, occupies the highest point. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Snow still chose to dwell behind the armory, in a pair of modest rooms previously occupied by the Watch’s late blacksmith. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z As the testimony continued, much of it tedious legal maneuvering, we began to occupy ourselves with other matters. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The English, despite their bluff, are certainly no more to blame for the war than all the other countries, large and small, that are now occupied by the Germans. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The upper cabins are occupied by the privileged and the refugees have gladly taken to the mattress pads. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Within this section the office occupied the third floor, a storage area the second, and refuse the first. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond this the river is occupied only by hamlets on the bluffs at the water’s edge. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z While I talk, he tucks the gloves in his pocket and occupies himself with turning the food in the leather bag into a meal for us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z About an hour later I found myself lying upon that same nursery table my ancient sister had occupied some months before for her appendix operation. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Eye stood up at the table he was occupying, far from the window. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z |
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