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
• 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
• 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
• 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.
  — Brian Witte, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2023
• The lower court then quickly scheduled a hearing on the state's motion to vacate.
  — CBS News, 28 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• As the rockets rained down, the National Guard troops vacated their barracks in the public school.
  — James Verini Paolo Pellegrin, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• That depends not only on whether the House changes the rules on the motion to vacate, but also on the size of a party’s majority.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 16 Oct. 2023
• Reporter Matt Laslo on Tuesday found a document for a motion to vacate the speaker of the House.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2023
• Once vacated, the positions will not be filled, leaving a Swiss cheese pattern of staffing.
  — Steve Brozak, STAT, 16 Aug. 2023
• McHenry was chosen from a list of names not shared with the public following the vote to vacate the speakership.
  — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2023
• This allowed Representative Matt Gaetz to call for a vote on the motion to vacate.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 16 Oct. 2023
• The first would lower the threshold for the motion to vacate the chair to just one House member, meaning that any single member could call for a vote to oust the speaker.
  — Kathryn Watson, Stefan Becket, Caroline Linton, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2023
• Someone could have very easily tried to file a motion to vacate the chair against Johnson too.
  — Leah Askarinam, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2023
• Last week, Attorney General Kris Mayes filed a motion to vacate the lawsuit while the state tries to work out an agreement with the schools.
  — The Arizona Republic, 9 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024