Sentence examples for place is occupied from inspiring English sources

A special place is occupied by illustrator Gustave Doré, who published little Töpfferian albums as a youth and then in a style of his own farcical travel tales that culminated in his tremendous Histoire…de la Sainte Russie… (1854).

The central part of the peristil, the semi-open space usually located at the entrance of the ounfò, where public rituals actually take place, is occupied by a potomitan ("pillar in the middle").

A special ecological place is occupied by the polar bear, which is at home in the sea, on the sea ice, and on land but which is essentially an aquatic animal.

A couple from Kingsbridge in the Bronx might move into the family's old apartment, and then the Kingsbridge place is occupied by someone from a slightly poorer neighborhood, and the chain reaction continues, affecting poorer and poorer people at each step.

In Britain, that place is occupied by royals, sucking the air from potential celebrities lacking royal birth.

Today the place is occupied by 20 families of squatters, a series of tin-roof shacks and small plots of corn and beans hemmed in by barbed wire.

At least if a place was occupied, they knew it was livable.

A special place was occupied by Sohrab Sepehri, whose mystical evocations of nature are much beloved by Iranian readers.

From Frederick's death to the days of Wilhelm II, the place was occupied mostly by second-string royalty.

In the early part of that period the little time which could be spared by the legislature from the excitement of political strife, the struggle for political power and place, was occupied with the stirring events attendant on the long and continued wars in which we were engaged, and the principles of commercial and industrial legislation attracted little of its attention.

And in 1935, when Gov. A. Harry Moore resigned to take an appointment to the United States Senate, his place was occupied for five days by Clifford R. Powell, and then by Horace G. Prall, who lasted from the 8th to the 15th, when Harold G , Hoffman the elected governor, took office to serve the three years that governors were allotted in those days.