Sentence examples for the occupying from inspiring English sources

The phrase "the occupying" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is usually used to refer to an occupying force, such as a military presence that has taken control of an area, or a group of people that has taken up a place or space. For example, "The occupying forces of the country have been in the region for more than two years."

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the occupying

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To take or use time. transitive

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Nannie resented the occupying Federal troops.

They are the occupying power.

But now the occupying enemy was the Romans.

The unlikely publisher was the occupying American Third Army.

But, almost a decade after the war, the occupying powers showed few signs of clearing out.

The last landing in the Solomons, by the Americans in 1942, drove out the occupying Japanese.

This time it is expelling the Hamas MPs for disloyalty to the occupying state.

In 1944 the occupying Nazis evacuated most of the Estonian Swedes.

This was richly humorous [to the occupying soldiers]." There is a solution.

The occupying Iowans consistently said they planned to continue their tradition of attending the real caucuses.

During World War II, in 1945, Yugoslav Partisans expelled the occupying Germans there.

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