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Vacant in sentence

173 examples of Vacant in a sentence

As men left for the battlefield, women filled the vacant civilian jobs – including farming.
Lebanon’s presidency was vacant for more than two years until October 2016, and Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s resignation announcement in Saudi Arabia in 2017 shocked the country’s financial markets and triggered capital outflows.
Investors can’t determine from whom they can obtain vacant land, neighbors can’t agree on property lines, and siblings squabble over inheritances.
In rushing to fill the vacant seat with a conservative hardliner, Senate Republicans are not even pretending to preserve any consistency with the positions they took in 2016, when they flat-out refused to consider President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, citing that year’s coming presidential election.
As usual, after the inquiry as to what priced rooms they desired, it turned out that there was not a single good room vacant: one good room was occupied by a railway inspector, another by a lawyer from Moscow, a third by the Princess Astafyeva from the country.
Having found a vacant place at the balustrade, Levin leant over and began to look and listen.
Levin took one of the vacant chairs which were standing round the table, and in a whisper asked a student who was sitting there what was being read.
'That's Yashvin,' said Vronsky in reply to Turovtsin's question, as he took a vacant chair beside them.
'Oh, by the way!' said Oblonsky, 'I wanted to ask you to take an opportunity, when you see Pomorsky, to put in a word for me, and to tell him that I should very much like to get the vacant post of Member of the Committee of the Joint Agency of the Mutual Credit Balance of Southern Railways.'
He had taken ambush in a vacant space, behind a paling opposite an obscure grocery shop, situated at the corner of a lane.
The noise grew louder, but nothing could yet be seen; along the vacant road the wind of a tempest seemed to be blowing, like those sudden gusts which precede great storms.
Above, the pit-bank was vacant; no shadow was any longer visible against the wild flight of clouds.
where are you hurt?"His eyes were vacant, and his mouth was slavered with bloody foam.
I ask Monsieur le Marquis for the Verrieres lottery office, which cannot fail to be vacant soon in one way or another, the present holder being seriously ill, and besides voting the wrong way at the elections; etc.DE CHOLINOn the margin of this petition was an endorsement signed de Moirod, which began with the words:'I had the honour yesterday to mention the respectable person who makes this request,' and so forth.
He went to inspect the vacant house.
There were two places vacant.
Amid a crowd of great noblemen who remained silent, and of intriguers, mostly disreputable, but all of them clever fellows, who arrived one after another that evening, in M. de La Mole's drawing-room (people were speaking of him for a vacant Ministry), young Tanbeau was winning his spurs.
..'As it is hard to do two things well at the same time, the Marquis answered Mathilde with a vacant air, and as though repeating a lesson:'Who does not know poor Altamira?' and he told her the story of the absurd, abortive conspiracy.
He almost fainted when, on reaching the coach office, he was informed that, by mere chance, there was a place vacant next day in the Toulouse mail.
The children of the town steal round to watch them, wondering; and brawny country wenches, laughing, draw near to bandy ale- house jest and jibe with the swaggering troopers, so unlike the village swains, who, now despised, stand apart behind, with vacant grins upon their broad, peering faces.
"Very sorry, sir," again repeated the landlord: "but we really haven't got a bed vacant in the whole house.
Frances silently led the way into a vacant parlor, opposite to the one in which the family were assembled, and turning to the soldier frankly, placing both her hands in his own, exclaimed,-"Ah, Dunwoodie!
As he spoke he dropped the article he was packing from his hand, and seated himself on a chest, with a look of vacant misery.
Sometimes the cart itself was her shop; at others the soldiers made her a rude shelter of such materials as offered; but on the present occasion she had seized on a vacant building, and, by dint of stuffing the dirty breeches and half-dried linen of the troopers into the broken windows, to exclude the cold, which had now become severe, she formed what she herself had pronounced to be "most illigant lodgings."
"'Tis a fearful place to prepare for the last change in," said Harvey, gazing around his little prison with a vacant eye.
"There are few who have not done so," said the peddler, turning his vacant gaze once more on his companion.
When surprise and the smoke allowed Dunwoodie to look again on the rock where he had stood, the spot was vacant.
The surgeon turned a vacant eye on his companion as he uttered this soliloquy, while the penetrating looks of the trooper had already discovered another pile of rocks, which, jutting forward, nearly obstructed the highway that wound directly around its base.
Katy Haynes was accordingly directed to summon the black to the vacant parlor, and thither Miss Peyton and the surgeon repaired, to give their several instructions.
Miss Peyton and her niece flew, with a rapture that was blessed with a momentary forgetfulness of all but her preservation, to receive Sarah from the trooper; but the vacant eye and flushed cheek restored them instantly to their recollection.
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