Sentence examples for own occupant from inspiring English sources

Standing on the threshold, she announces, "I'm my own occupant!" Like Ann Marie, young women seized one-bedrooms near First and Second Avenues, which became known for singles bars and "stew zoos"—buildings packed with female flight attendants.

If it goes the other, it collides with a semi, killing its own occupants.

They are also more dangerous for their own occupants because of their increased rollover risk.

Some automakers have already taken steps to make S.U.V.'s safer, for other drivers and for their own occupants.

The traffic safety agency is also seeking ways to make S.U.V.'s and other light trucks safer for their own occupants.

Big pickups tend to be safer for their own occupants than small pickups, but when used as family vehicles they are less safe than minivans and station wagons.

Rollovers, they say, are a sort of traffic cancer -- uncommon but deadly -- that make S.U.V.'s slightly more dangerous for their own occupants than passenger cars.

Sport utilities are also no more safe than cars for their own occupants, traffic statistics show, because advantages they get from their bulk are offset by a greater propensity to roll over.

Marc Ross, a University of Michigan physicist, and Tom Wenzel, a researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, published a study last year that formulated a combined risk for different vehicles, based on the deaths they inflicted both on their own occupants and on others.

It has also had considerable safety implications; light trucks have a higher death rate for their own occupants because of their tendency to roll over, and they pose increased dangers when they collide with passenger cars.

S.U.V.'s and large pickups are also generally less safe than cars for their own occupants because, statistics show, they are more likely to roll over, a particularly deadly accident.