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173 examples of Vacant in a sentence

There's this fabulous opportunity we have across the U.S. now: about 21 percent of vacant commercial and industrial space.
We're finding that people can share the same spaces, do stuff with vacant space.
And all these years, all y'all been doing is strangling the life out of my bank statement, leaving my pockets as vacant as parking lots.
How can we share more of our hopes for our vacant storefronts, so our communities can reflect our needs and dreams today?
They give off a lot of heat into the atmosphere, and for some of you may understand the heat island effect in cities, where the urban areas are much more warm than the adjacent rural areas, but we also have problems that, when we lose power, we can't open a window here, and so the buildings are uninhabitable and have to be made vacant until that air conditioning system can start up again.
This is South Central: liquor stores, fast food, vacant lots.
Liquor stores, fast food, vacant lots.
L.A. leads the United States in vacant lots that the city actually owns.
They own 26 square miles of vacant lots.
Citywide, there are 80,000 vacant homes.
They can also see vacant property.
Citywide, there are about 100,000 vacant parcels.
So if we take all of that vacant and abandoned property and we smush it together, it looks like about 20 square miles, and that's roughly equivalent to the size of the island we're sitting on today, Manhattan, at 22 square miles.
Now some of our audience members also tell us about some of the positive things that are happening in their communities, and many of them are banding together to take control of some of the vacant lots, and they're starting community gardens, which are creating a great sense of community stewardship, but they're very, very clear to tell us that this is not enough, that they want to see their neighborhoods return to the way that their grandparents had found them.
Now there's been a lot of speculation since 2010 about what to do with the vacant property, and a lot of that speculation has been around community gardening, or what we call urban agriculture.
So many people would say to us, "What if you just take all that vacant land and you could make it farmland?
These folks see that same vacant land and those same abandoned homes as opportunity for new, entrepreneurial ideas and profit, so much so that former models can move to Detroit, buy property, start successful businesses and restaurants, and become successful community activists in their neighborhood, bringing about very positive change.
Secondly, there had to be an acceptance that we were not going to be able to use all of this vacant land in the way that we had before and maybe for some time to come.
To some I was Martin, a vacant shell, the vegetable, deserving of harsh words, dismissal and even abuse.
Food production might move to vertical farms and skyscrapers, rooftop gardens, or vacant lots in city centers, while power will increasingly come from multiple sources of renewable energy.
But it just so happened, two days later, I had to travel up the road to Harlem, where I found myself sitting in an urban farm that had once been a vacant lot, listening to a man named Tony tell me of the kids that showed up there every day.
Rather than a path, Paul wrote, "I saw instead only a harsh, vacant, gleaming white desert.
Louisville has used this not just for their city but in a community-wide effort bringing resources together to address vacant and abandoned properties.
It allows you to draw all the stakeholders in your community that care about homelessness or crime-fighting or education or vacant and abandoned properties, and bring those people to the table so you can work together to address your common goal.
They further go on to say that 40 square miles of the city is vacant.
They're powerful because I'm showing you how we're creating a new society left vacant in the places and the spaces that was disintegration from the old.
'Tuscan Sun' may be the most vacant piece of cinema of the last decade, despite its admittedly well-lensed panoramas of Italy.
That vacant stare of Ms. Ball is suppose to convince us she is emoting but there is no chemistry between her and Bruce Davidson, Robert Preston or Bea Arthur at all.
It has some events that seem forced and unlikely, like when Cal (Crudup once again as the 'lost, vacant, and kind of dull' male) and Julianne Moore find a map of the US in kind of an unbelievable place.
I just finished watching Disappearances at AFI FEST 2006 with about 30 other people in a mostly vacant 1000 seat auditorium.
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