Sentence examples for occupy familiar from inspiring English sources

The stories attached to these broken bodies occupy familiar spaces in the collective memory of Black America.

There's Phil's wife, Miss Kay, and Willie's wife, Korie, who also occupy familiar sitcom roles: They're women who show endless patience as they deal with their men's folly and who not-so-secretly wield great power within the family.

Dafoe occupied familiar dastardly territory in Sam Raimi's 2002 superhero film.

In other ways, Ms. Best's staging occupies familiar ground, and those anticipating the shuddery depths communicated by Kenneth Branagh in his recent occupancy of the same part — seen in June in Manchester and due in New York next summer — may be frustrated by a comparative conventionality.

There's comfort in seeing even the second-generation cheerleader occupy a familiar role in a well-worn tale: the underdog story, the rivals-finding-common-ground story, the good-girl-wins-out story.

Now yet another cast has come in to occupy this familiar territory: Georgina Lukács as the diva, Richard Leech as Cavaradossi, Carlo Guelfi as Scarpia, and the eminent Julius Rudel in the pit.

Danny Willett, 27, would occupy the familiar golf term "leader in the clubhouse," for several overnight hours.

The opening section feels like Maliphant in default mode, its slow, stretchy sculptural movement occupying familiar terrain.

In choice situations, gravid females strongly preferred to join familiar conspecific groups and deposited their eggs in prey patches occupied by familiar females.

The rest of the programme occupies more familiar ground.

This paper will propose a theoretical framework which acknowledges the possibility of a real world space for the researcher to occupy, alongside the familiar Swalesian 'research space'.