How to Use occupancy in a Sentence

occupancy

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  • Those two events on the same weekend puts the local hotel occupancy rate to 94%, the firm said.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The shift follows last month’s full opening of 22.5 miles of high-occupancy toll lanes from the Beltway to Gainesville.
    — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2022
  • The city and Rafiq have been squaring off over the single-room occupancy hotel for more than a decade.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Maui charges some of the highest hotel and resort rates and occupancies in Hawaii.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 10 Aug. 2023
  • As has been the case in every new hospital built in San Diego over the past decade, Rady plans to make rooms single occupancy.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2023
  • Alone in a single-room-occupancy apartment, a man builds a stage from milk crates and cardboard.
    — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Plus, thanks to the higher occupancy, this would make for the perfect getaway for a group of friends or family.
    — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 11 Apr. 2024
  • But even if money is no object, low supply and high occupancy rates mean rentals are hard to find in the Cincinnati area.
    — The Enquirer, 16 July 2023
  • Cruise ships can sail at over 100% occupancy when more than two people stay in staterooms.
    — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The city can contest the existence of a housing structure but cannot challenge the occupancy of the structure.
    — Kristi Tanner, Detroit Free Press, 26 July 2022
  • That would place Mission Viejo as the fourth-highest transient occupancy tax in the county.
    — Annika Bahnsen, Orange County Register, 19 June 2024
  • Last week’s data showed that Friday was the lowest day of occupancy and Tuesday was the highest.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 3 Feb. 2023
  • In June, Chicago reported record-breaking hotel occupancy over the weekend the Eras Tour came to the city.
    — Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Wood said there are a few vacancies there, but the property is close to full occupancy.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Oct. 2022
  • For him, the costs of financing and construction wipe out the upside of high occupancy rates and rising rents.
    — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Office occupancy rates will foretell whether the work-from-home movement sticks or not.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2023
  • In March, as the occupancy rate stood at about 79 percent, Donald pledged to raise it 10 percentage points by the end of September.
    — Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Not all cruise lines are discounting fares to pump up occupancy.
    — Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Now, though, hotel occupancy is expected at more than 90% for the weeks of the tournament.
    — Rory Jones, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Last month, a case in Texas made headlines after a pregnant woman was pulled over for driving alone in a high-occupancy lane.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2022
  • While the resort won’t open until 2025, many of the private residences are now complete and ready for occupancy.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 25 Mar. 2024
  • There are only 43 rooms, meaning even at full occupancy, there are under 90 guests at all times.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 20 June 2024
  • Be sure to stay up to date on the rent and occupancy levels and get second opinions on the stability of interest rates.
    — Lee Kiser, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The rental towers have been in a negative cash-flow situation since last year, the report says, with an occupancy rate of 89% as of March.
    — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The house was still being built, and our occupancy date was early June, giving us just a few weeks to settle in before the baby arrived.
    — Christina Dugan Ramirez, PEOPLE.com, 22 July 2022
  • The occupancy rate -- down to 41 percent at the end of last year -- will get a boost, including a short-term lease with Dobama Theatre in the former Ensemble space.
    — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 21 Nov. 2022
  • This southern city has surpassed the capital, Taipei, to boast the highest overall hotel occupancy rate in Taiwan in the past two years.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Rooms are maximum double occupancy and Cottage stays are a max of six adults.
    — Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The office stated that, with remnants of the unfinished project still left on site, Beg was using the premises without a valid occupancy certificate.
    — Tamia Fowlkes, Journal Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Ye’s first show coincided with the first day of the Mid-Autumn festival holiday, and the average hotel occupancy rate in Haikou jumped by about a half to 83%, year on year, on the same holiday a year earlier.
    — Chris Lau, CNN, 12 Oct. 2024

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