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.
• At the end of last year, warehouse vacancy rates stood at a low 3.2%.
  — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Office vacancies in North Texas are at a more than 20-year high.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2023
• The vacancy rate for staff who care for residents has grown.
  — Ben Botkin, oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2023
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• In 2023, there were two million more vacancies than there were workers.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2024
• Campbell has been linked to numerous vacancies in the past but seems content in Ames.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2024
• The vacancy rate for the part-time positions is nearly 56 percent.
  — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• And New York officials would have 10 days to schedule a special election to fill the vacancy.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2023
• In various cities and states, vacancies on road crews meant cracks and potholes took longer to fix than many motorists might like.
  — David A. Lieb, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
• The motel is closed to the typical paying customer, but there are still no vacancies.
  — Omar Villafranca, CBS News, 13 Feb. 2024
• Cicilline, whose vacancy is being filled, won big in his reelection in the 2022 midterms.
  — Mike Pappano, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2023
• The vacancy rate had surpassed 20 percent in Menlo Park and Mountain View.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 6 Nov. 2023
• Average turnover rate for front-line nurse managers is around two years, and in the Northeast U.S., the current vacancy rate stands at roughly 15%.
  — Toby Bressler and Lauren Ghazal, STAT, 12 Jan. 2024
• It is expected that the vacancy will be filled by appointment.
  — Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2024
• Michigan Central Station is opening its doors in just a few months after more than 30 years of vacancy.
  — Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2024
• That’s a whole lot of rearranging the deck chairs, with Pavel Zacha and Charlie Coyle expected to get first dibs next month at filling the primo vacancies.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
• That and a decade of unfilled vacancies at the station that forced deputies to work overtime made Mayor R. Rex Parris come up with the idea for his city’s own police department.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• In a period of doom and gloom for the commercial real estate sector, hammered by remote work and high vacancy rates in cities across the U.S., the deal offers a dose of hope.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2023
• There was a vacancy for a special teams assistant with Brendan Farrell not returning to the staff.
  — Daniel Oyefusi, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2024
• Hochul has 10 days from being notified of a vacancy to announce a special election, which then has to take place within 80 days.
  — Lauren Peller, ABC News, 1 Dec. 2023
• Brennan began the discussion by stating that the ARB has had a vacancy since January.
  — cleveland, 16 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024