Below you will find example sentences with "occupied territories". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Occupied Territories in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: occupied
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 12
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 23.9 words

Words in this phrase

occupied territories

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • occupied can mean: Reserved; engaged. Frequent word
  • territories can mean: plural of territory Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 0 start, 11 middle, 9 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

and the occupied territories face dozens 1× country s occupied territories to the 1× fleeing russian occupied territories 1× from israeli occupied territories by prohibiting 1× from russian occupied territories by bus 1× grain from occupied territories 1× in the occupied territories 1× in the occupied territories as hostile 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

acknowledging that i 1× claims by israel 1× general staff russia 1× in areas still 1× israel has escalated 1× israeli forces today 1×

Common sentence endings:

the occupied territories 3× are considered occupied 1× been a joke 1× british intelligence services 1× bus in march 1× discriminate against them 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

israeli 5× israel 5× services 3× palestinian 3× russia 3× ukrainian 3× russian 3× children 3× ukraine 3× country 3× goods 2× settlements 2×

Related phrases

occupied west northwest territories palestinian territories overseas territories occupied east occupied territory northern occupied

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around occupied:

occupied west 20× occupied east 7× occupied territory 7× northern occupied 5×

Just before it in the phrase index:

occupied east occupational therapy occasioning actual obtain license obtain energy obama white

Just after it in the phrase index:

occupied territory occupied west occurred last ocean city ocean floor oct file

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

occupied west occupied east occupied territory

Same ending:

northwest territories palestinian territories overseas territories

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "occupied territories" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 23.9 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as and the occupied territories face dozens, country s occupied territories to the, israeli, israel and services stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with occupied west, northwest territories, palestinian territories, occupied west, occupied east and occupied territory, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with occupied territories

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

General Staff: Russia continues to steal Ukrainian grain from occupied territories. (11 words)

Resistance fighters based in Gaza also fired several rockets toward the occupied territories. (13 words)

The group said it would leave some of the occupied territories before Jan. (13 words)

Longer example sentences

It is certainly in the interest of both Ukraine and the Western countries to continue to stick to this goal, so that Ukraine can liberate all occupied territories, and to provide as much support as possible. (36 words)

The Bill aims to prohibit Ireland from trading in goods and services from Israeli-occupied territories by prohibiting “the import and sales of goods, services and natural resources originating in illegal settlements in occupied territories”. (35 words)

Acknowledging that I could have emphasized this connection does not invalidate the rest of the report; nothing about this connection gives legitimacy or enables what Israel is doing in the occupied territories. (32 words)

Example sentences (20)

The Bill aims to prohibit Ireland from trading in goods and services from Israeli-occupied territories by prohibiting “the import and sales of goods, services and natural resources originating in illegal settlements in occupied territories”.

The court confirmed on Friday that it considers the Palestinian territories a territorial unit, despite the fragmentation resulting from Israel’s policies, including the annexation of parts of the occupied territories.

It will lead to a freezing of the conflict, nothing more: Occupied territories are considered occupied.

Acknowledging that I could have emphasized this connection does not invalidate the rest of the report; nothing about this connection gives legitimacy or enables what Israel is doing in the occupied territories.

Claims by Israel that the status of the occupied territories is still negotiable, apart from the enlarged city limits of East Jerusalem, have been a joke.

General Staff: Russia continues to steal Ukrainian grain from occupied territories.

In areas still controlled by Russian forces, residents, including children, are being forcefully relocated to other occupied territories or to Russia.

Israel has escalated its military raids in the West Bank in recent months, killing at least 177 Palestinians in the occupied territories this year so far.

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Israeli forces today detained 12 Palestinians, including a woman journalist, from various parts of the occupied territories, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).

It is certainly in the interest of both Ukraine and the Western countries to continue to stick to this goal, so that Ukraine can liberate all occupied territories, and to provide as much support as possible.

Joe Sacco’s Palestine, a nine-issue collection of comic strips depicting the artist-journalist’s two-month stay in the Occupied Territories (his words), has recently been rushed into reprint.

Liberate another significant patch of occupied territories and discover another mass grave, I thought.

Many on the Israeli right view the country’s judiciary, which in reality has the very existence and expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, as hostile to the settler movement.

Mothers and children returning to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, from Russian-occupied territories by bus in March.

Numerous studies have shown that Palestinian residents of both Israel and the Occupied Territories face dozens of Israeli laws that discriminate against them.

Resistance fighters based in Gaza also fired several rockets toward the occupied territories.

Russia has further expanded its defence installations in the occupied territories in Ukraine, according to information from British intelligence services.

She co-ordinates a Canadian-funded counselling service in Uzhhorod, a small resort town near the border with Slovakia, where people arrived by the thousands after fleeing Russian-occupied territories.

She has organised the transfer of hundreds of Ukrainian children from their country’s occupied territories to the very country that is waging war on their homeland.

The group said it would leave some of the occupied territories before Jan.

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