How to Use vacant lot in a Sentence

vacant lot

noun

• In 1947, Short's naked corpse was found in a vacant lot.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 6 June 2023
• Buying a vacant lot offers the chance to build a home on your own terms.
  — Margaret Roach, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
• Buying a vacant lot offers the chance to build a home on your own terms.
  — Michael Kolomatsky, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• When she was asked to list a vacant lot, Jones discovered the property wasn’t easy to find in the first place.
  — David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 6 June 2024
• His body was found two weeks later on March 6 in a vacant lot, rolled up in a carpet and wrapped in plastic.
  — Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2023
• His body was found two weeks later on March 6 in a vacant lot, rolled up in a carpet and wrapped in plastic. Ga.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 27 Mar. 2023
• What was once a vacant lot with an old-school gas station in midtown Wauwatosa is now an ice cream shop.
  — Sophia Vento, Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2023
• The court ruled for a couple who were blocked from building a home on a soggy vacant lot next to scenic Priest Lake in Idaho.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
• That search led them to exactly the middle of nowhere, to this vacant lot, and to Costello, who was unfazed by the challenge.
  — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
• The plan was to purchase a vacant lot and build a house on it, but land is expensive in Japan and their budget wouldn’t allow it.
  — Tim Hornyak, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• There is no direct access to the beach, so swimmers have to trek down a slippery footpath on a vacant lot to get there.
  — Mohamad El Chamaa, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
• The next night, Eberhart and I were parked between a hamburger joint and a vacant lot prowled by feral cats.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
• The vehicle left the road and traveled through a vacant lot before coming to a stop on Murray Road.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 13 Sep. 2023
• The average vacant lot in Detroit pays about $30 a lot but under the plan, the average would reach $67 per lot.
  — Detroit Free Press, 31 Aug. 2023
• That vacant lot now covers one of the more prominent pieces of undeveloped land in the area.
  — Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 26 Jan. 2024
• The historic Deauville Hotel, built in 1957 in the Miami Modern style, has already been torn down and is now a vacant lot.
  — Conor Devlin, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2023
• The deal included three nearby houses and a vacant lot.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 5 June 2023
• One of those properties was a vacant lot in the Child’s Park neighborhood of south St. Petersburg.
  — Ben Wieder, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
• Four days later, her body was found in a vacant lot in the nearby city of Longueuil, Quebec, according to a police statement.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 25 May 2023
• The business would close after 6pm making the vacant lot a perfect choice for a pop-up food operation.
  — Kyle Russell, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2024
• On a recent morning, a bulldozer moved earth around a vacant lot at the corner of North Charles Avenue and 20th Street across the street from a senior center.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 15 Sep. 2023
• The Chicago Fire Department responded to a car fire in a vacant lot about 15 minutes after the murder.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 10 May 2023
• The property backed up to a vacant lot that has since become Crispus Attucks Park, a grassy acre landscaped with flowers, benches and shade trees.
  — Omari Daniels, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• Neighboring vacant lot owners can also submit an application and split the cost and the lot.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 2 Sep. 2023
• Silverstein Properties has some very grand plans for a vacant lot on Manhattan’s far West Side.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 28 July 2023
• Remnants of the violent shooting littered the overgrown, vacant lot.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2023
• Get the data Tony Atwater had been hoping to keep a vacant lot that had been in his family for generations.
  — Ben Wieder, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
• In 1968, when the building was just a vacant lot in the fast-gentrifying South End, King spearheaded protests to demand affordable housing.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2023
• In addition to its Black Joy farm, the organization turned a vacant lot into a healing space, both of which the organization bought from the city.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2024
• Mayer led the investigation, which culminated with the arrest of Brian Potter, who lived in a house across from the vacant lot, and Joseph Renick, who had been staying with him.
  — Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 29 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 23 Aug 2024