How to Use vacancy in a Sentence

vacancy

noun

• There were no vacancies at the hotel.
• School administrators are trying to fill vacancies before the beginning of the school year.
• That would place the deadline to fill the vacancy at Aug. 27.
  — Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 4 Aug. 2022
• At the end of last year, warehouse vacancy rates stood at a low 3.2%.
  — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• Note: There are four vacancies in the House as of Friday.
  — Kevin Uhrmacher, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
• The problem with this plan is that there is no vacancy.
  — Leonard Greene, Orlando Sentinel, 23 Nov. 2024
• The judge ordered Dean to vacate the office and ordered a runoff to fill the vacancy.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 20 May 2022
• But Democrats are then going to have a new vacancy of their own next month.
  — Carl Hulse, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2024
• Sometimes a ship doesn’t sail, or there are last-minute vacancies that must be filled.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2023
• The only reason the 2022 vote did not pass, Cahill said, is because there was a board member vacancy at the time of the vote.
  — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2022
• Office vacancies in North Texas are at a more than 20-year high.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2023
• The number of vacancies is 18 higher than at this time last year.
  — Matt Hubbard, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2024
• The vacancy rate for staff who care for residents has grown.
  — Ben Botkin, oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2023
• Bolick was appointed to the seat in 2023 to fill a vacancy and is running for a full term.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
• So many Gen Zers have made the move to the Big Apple that the city saw its lowest vacancy rate and biggest housing crunch in the past 50 years.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2024
• The appointment comes after the city failed at its third attempt to fill the vacancy.
  — Alex Hulvalchick, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2022
• The board settled into factions, and couldn’t break its 3-3 tie to appoint a new trustee to fill a vacancy.
  — Henry Krausse, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Mar. 2023
• The guys also talk Dwayne Casey's move to the front office and the potential candidates to fill the head coach vacancy.
  — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 11 Apr. 2023
• The date for when that vacancy will begin is to be determined.
  — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2022
• Rents are rising statewide, and apartment vacancy rates are among the lowest in the country.
  — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2023
• When a school board vacancy arises, by state law, the local school board may send my office up to three names.
  — Nick Sullivan, The Arizona Republic, 10 July 2024
• His name had been on a secret list that McCarthy provided to the clerk in January in the event of a vacancy.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2023
• For the first time in over two years, vacancies didn’t rise during the second quarter, holding steady at 7.8%.
  — Paulina Likos, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2024
• As a sign that past promotions worked, Johnson said the business park has a vacancy rate of 1%.
  — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 17 Oct. 2022
• There are more than 1,300 teacher vacancies, the district added.
  — Jenny Vrentas, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• Meanwhile, a vacancy for the Fed’s No. 2 job could tee up a testy confirmation fight in the Senate.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023
• The high demand for rentals is keeping vacancy rates near all-time lows, pushing up rent prices.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 13 May 2022
• In 2023, there were two million more vacancies than there were workers.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2024
• Politics will inevitably play a role, as all parties jockey to fill the court’s three current vacancies with friendly judges.
  — Victor Cha, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2024
• All the three vacancies were slots to be filled by the National Assembly, although they were formally appointed by the president.
  — Jin Yu Young, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Jan 2025