How to Use vacate in a Sentence

vacate

verb

• Students must vacate their rooms at the end of the semester.
• The court vacated the conviction.
• The police told everyone to vacate the premises.
• She refused to vacate her post even under increased pressure.
• The election will fill the congressional seat vacated by the retiring senator.
• The notices to vacate are just the first step in the eviction process.
  — Randy Tucker, The Enquirer, 1 Mar. 2023
• By now, the puffins had vacated the area, and gulls swarmed the sea caves.
  — Kayla Becker, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2023
• The woman isn’t facing any charges and agreed to vacate the sign.
  — Brie Stimson, Fox News, 10 May 2024
• But the group hasn’t taken the threat of a motion to vacate for Johnson off the table.
  — Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2024
• The holiday hits have vacated the top of the Billboard charts to reveal the first Top 10 hits of the new year.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 8 Jan. 2024
• Gaetz’s action Monday marked the first time that the motion to vacate has been used to try to oust a speaker.
  — WSJ, 4 Oct. 2023
• The suit seeks an order vacating the FTC’s click-to-cancel rule.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 24 Oct. 2024
• Conley ran a good route — a 15-yard out route to the sideline amid the space vacated by the Packers’ zone defense.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2024
• The Justice Department filed a brief with the Supreme Court to vacate the injunction by the appeals court.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2022
• Harry and Meghan are asked to vacate their home in England, in a further royal rift.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• About two dozen Sedamsville renters have been asked to vacate their homes and apartments without warning.
  — Randy Tucker, The Enquirer, 1 Mar. 2023
• Moore and the other lawyer eventually moved to vacate the space late last year, the person said.
  — Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2023
• The lower court then quickly scheduled a hearing on the state's motion to vacate.
  — CBS News, 28 Mar. 2023
• The lower court then quickly scheduled a hearing on the state’s motion to vacate.
  — Brian Witte, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2023
• The tavern, which took over the space vacated by Scarlet Lane Brewing, is their first sports bar.
  — Arika Herron, Axios, 30 Oct. 2024
• When the invasion started, my friends and colleagues asked me to vacate.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 9 Oct. 2022
• Shortly after the snake got out, an alarm went off to alert visitors to vacate the premises.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2022
• Month-to-month renters have been given a minimum of 60 days notice to vacate.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 26 July 2022
• The board does not have the legal authority to force a member to vacate his or her office.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2023
• The group agreed in late February to vacate the home in 30 days and left only recently.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
• In 2021, when Trump was no longer in office, the Supreme Court ordered the lower court to vacate a ruling against Trump and dismiss it as moot.
  — Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 15 Mar. 2024
• Three of the new laws are temporarily blocked by an injunction that the state has asked the Montana Supreme Court to vacate.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 21 July 2022
• The motion to vacate has only been used once before -- more than a century ago -- and failed.
  — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2023
• The council appointed Young to fill the District 7 seat vacated this month by Amy Fowler.
  — Blake Apgar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 July 2023
• These vacate the water rapidly as the action moves closer the shoreline.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 16 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024