How to Use vacant in a Sentence

vacant

adjective
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  • The seat was left vacant when the secretary resigned.
  • He had a vacant expression on his face.
  • These lockers are all vacant.
  • The rise in rents has eased, and more apartments are vacant.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • Nine district and three vacant at-large slots were on the ballot.
    — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
  • All 12 school board seats — nine district and three vacant at-large slots — were on the ballot.
    — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
  • But those stores closed years ago and the strip mall has sat mostly vacant ever since.
    — Dustin Wyatt, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Cohen is less certain about the vacant 8,000-square-foot storefront on the ground floor.
    — Paul Schwartzman, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
  • City staff declared the structure to be unsafe/vacant in 2008.
    — Joseph Flaherty, arkansasonline.com, 11 Dec. 2023
  • On the other is the Hickory Ridge Mall, once home to 100 stores but now nearly vacant.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Some say the building stood vacant for far too long after closing in 2008.
    — Pilar Arias, Fox News, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Sanchez and Jensen agreed with residents who said the building was too crowded for the vacant site, which is about one-third of an acre.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2024
  • At the current pace, Blinken said, top postings as crucial as those in Israel and Egypt may sit vacant by the end of the summer.
    — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2023
  • The 1,300-acre property includes vacant land and farm fields that were left dry and abandoned years ago.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2023
  • In July 2001, Harold was killed in the line of duty, and another of Presley's uncles filled the vacant seat.
    — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Phoenix also made the list of metro areas with the most vacant land for development.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The building, located on Essex Court in the middle of the complex, is vacant, Schounce said.
    — Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The bar nearly closed before the pandemic, and sat vacant for two years before the brothers took it on.
    — Jordan Michelman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • For most of this past season, with the Heat hard up against the punitive luxury tax, the 15th and final roster spot was left vacant.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2023
  • In the end, then-Gov. Rick Scott appointed her to the vacant seat instead of leaving it open for several months.
    — Lori Rozsa, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Nearly a quarter of jobs in the state hospital system are vacant — a rate that has more than doubled over the last decade.
    — Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
  • By now, the waste has piled up high enough to consume a quarter of the vacant houses and a seven-story hospital.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • People’s Park emerged in 1969, two years after the university bought it for dorm space and then left it vacant.
    — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The venue will be part of the Star Uptown redevelopment of the Carraway site, which has sat vacant and crumbling for 15 years.
    — Joseph D. Bryant | Jbryant@al.com, al, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Chula Vista has filled vacant City Council seats through appointments three times over the past two decades.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2023
  • When the 200 activists and farm workers got there, the ranch was vacant, overgrown with weeds, and the farm headquarters empty, except for a stray cow.
    — Jack Nicas Maria Magdalena Arréllaga, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The rent is expected fall further in many cities when new rental units hit the market, putting pressure on landlords to fill vacant units.
    — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • For the second time in a week, Democrats in a southwest Valley legislative district have chosen three people to fill a vacant seat in the House.
    — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
  • There are a lot of people, Lawson said, that don’t want to see the buildings sit vacant or, worse yet, see the massive collection of books taken out of town.
    — Ed Lavandera, CNN, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Martinez was the president of the board of trustees at the Castle for the last 16 months, when eight out of nine board of directors positions became vacant.
    — Yannick Peterhans, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023

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