occupy

US forces now occupy a part of the country.

Alexandretta had been occupied by the French in 1918 after the defeat of Turkey.

Students occupied the college buildings.

You think occupy Wall Street was a big deal?

Hence, because oil and water do not mix, water remains fastened to the quartz or carbonate grains, while oil occupies the central parts of the larger openings in the porous sandstone or limestone.

The first community that occupies a disturbed area therefore may be composed of specie with the highest rate of invasion, whereas the community of the subsequent stage may consist or plants with similar survival rates but lower invasion rates.

Alexander’s actions had several important consequences for the region occupied by the empire.

Bentley compares the seed production of six plants that grew where there were no ants with that of seventeen plants that were occupied by ants.

Unprotected plants bore only 45 seeds per plant, but plants occupied by ants bore 211 seeds per plant.

How do you occupy your time?

The building occupies a prominent position in Greenhill Road.

Bookshelves occupied most of the living-room walls.

It will be so large that it will occupy the whole space that used to be the Earth's orbit and so brilliant that it would be able to be seen with the naked eye thousands of light-years away.

Furthermore, a species-rich ecosystem is more likely to have species with similar ecological functions, so that if a species is lost from an ecosystem, another species, probably a competitor, is likely to flourish and occupy its functional role.

And although regarded as microorganisms, filaments from a single fungus can fan out to occupy many square meters or even several square kilometers of forest floor.

On the basis of these experiments and of field observations, the so-called law of competitive exclusion was formulated, according to which no two species can occupy the same niche.

Numerous seeming exceptions to this law have since been found, but they can usually be explained as cases in which the two species, even though competing for a major joint resource, did not really occupy exactly the same niche.

The physical structure of species competing for resources in the same ecological niche tends to gradually evolve in ways that allow them to occupy different niches.

The deserts, which already occupy approximately a fourth of the Earth's land surface, have in recent decades been increasing at an alarming pace.

Now, as you remember from your reading, the Maya were an ancient civilization which occupied in area corresponding to parts of modern-day Mexico and Central America.

There were over 40 tenants, all occupying one wing of the hospital.

They occupy neighbouring offices.

Houses occupied by the elderly need central heating.

The high plant biomass of the tropics leads to a greater spatial complexity in the environment, and this leads to a higher potential for diversity in the living things that can occupy a region.

Numerous insects occupy the marsh, feeding on living or dead cordgrass tissue, and redwing blackbirds, sparrows, rodents, rabbits, and deer feed directly on the cordgrass.

Men still occupy more positions of power than women.

We believe that we're going to occupy a unique position in the marketplace.

As a result, pastoralists, like carnivores in general, occupy a higher position on the food chain.

The species of moa that are currently recognized occupied ecological niches customarily filled elsewhere by large mammalian browsing herbivores.

Her parliamentary career has occupied all of her time.

I would deserve to be pitied if I couldn't occupy myself.

They occupied themselves with the television.

He took the cases and occupied himself with packing the car.