VACANT in a Sentence

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88 example sentences for VACANT, such as:

1. The seat next to him was vacant.
2. The hospital has no vacant beds.
3. Half way down the coach was a vacant seat.
4. A seat became vacant and he sat down in it.
5. The vacant lots were full of tall dead weeds.

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 Meanings and Examples of VACANT
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vacant
 a.  void of thought or knowledge; without an occupant or incumbent
Classic Sentence: (74 in 5 pages)
1  The stores and the new war buildings were farther apart now, with vacant lots between.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  Pack them over the horse as best you can and take them to that vacant lot behind Belle's--the one between her house and the railroad tracks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
3  Archie's carrying him to the vacant lot near Belle's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
4  Frank and Tommy, pistols in cold hands, lay stiffening among the dead weeds in a vacant lot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
5  And Mrs. Dorset leaned back against her travelling cushions with a smile which made Lily wish there had been no vacant seat beside her own.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
6  It had an unobstructed view of a vacant lot and Nat Hicks's tailor shop.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
7  He had saved money, had quit Elder's planing-mill and started a dairy on a vacant lot near his shack.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
8  The others had looked vacant at the mention of a country so far away as Russia.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
9  The vacant lots were full of tall dead weeds.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
10  The next day was exceedingly still and sultry, and with nothing special to engage them, the Pequod's crew could hardly resist the spell of sleep induced by such a vacant sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
11  They seemed especially interested in children and vacant lots.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII
12  The dancing pavilion was put up near the Danish laundry, on a vacant lot surrounded by tall, arched cottonwood trees.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII
13  That vacant lot soon became the most cheerful place in town.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII
14  He observed by the vacant expression of the Indian's countenance, that his eye, accustomed to the open air had not yet been able to penetrate the dusky light which pervaded the depth of the cavern.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9
15  Rich plumes nodded above his head; wampum, gorgets, bracelets, and medals, adorned his person in profusion; though his dull eye and vacant lineaments too strongly contradicted the idle tale of pride they would convey.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
Example Sentence:
1  Half way down the coach was a vacant seat.
2  A job fell vacant in the accounting department.
3  They may headhunt her for the vacant position of Executive Producer.
4  The vacant seat of the financial minister is hotly contested among politicians.
5  The hospital has no vacant beds.
6  Sometimes this means police officers help neighborhood members clear out vacant lots and rusting cars.
7  The seat next to him was vacant.
8  A seat became vacant and he sat down in it.
9  Brittany, the blond cheerleader, has a vacant stare and huge eyelashes.
10  “There has been an increase in vacant homes, so choices are many," Zhan says, "especially for a first-time home buyer.”
11  They saw a weed-grown, floorless room, an ancient fireplace, vacant windows, and a ruinous staircase.
12  They saw a weed-grown, floorless room, unplastered, an ancient fireplace, vacant windows, a ruinous staircase; and here, there, and everywhere hung ragged and abandoned cobwebs.
13  To my left were the windows; a great looking-glass between them repeated the vacant majesty of the bed and room.
14  He found himself transfixed by the look, the dazed or vacant stare, of those who knew they were about to die.