How to Use vacation in a Sentence

vacation

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• I don't have any vacation days left.
• When are you taking vacation this year?
• Family vacations were a high point in my childhood.
• We have a one-week vacation in February.
• The university will be closed for Christmas vacation.
• Employees are entitled to 120 hours of paid vacation.
• The guard on that side of the fence was out of vacation days.
  — Teju Cole, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• That same vacation for two people jumps all the way to $3,969.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 14 Feb. 2024
• Short-term vacation rentals are seeing a spike in both renters and lodgers.
  — Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2024
• Even going to a restaurant is a vacation, that’s the way my wife and I always saw it.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Mar. 2024
• Summer is nearly here—school is out, the vacations are planned, and the sun is shining.
  — Addison Aloian, womenshealthmag.com, 26 May 2023
• She’s rarely been out of her home, let alone on vacation, since the pandemic took hold.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 22 Apr. 2023
• With this unexpected free time, stars of the show might as well take a vacation!
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 15 July 2023
• Here, the lyrics seem to be just a checklist of things to do and items to pack before either going on vacation or going on the run.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 17 Jan. 2024
• Wear it with sandals to dinner on vacation or with loafers when you’re headed to the office.
  — Jake Smith, Glamour, 23 Feb. 2024
• Depending on the length of a vacation and the type of resort, the fees can add hundreds of dollars to a traveler’s tab.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Oct. 2023
• The clip comes shortly after Kelce and Swift went on a romantic vacation to the Bahamas.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 29 Mar. 2024
• Trying to plan the best beach vacation for your family?
  — Karen Cicero, Parents, 14 Sep. 2023
• Alito didn’t disclose the vacation and later ruled on a case that Singer had before the court.
  — Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 28 July 2023
• Two months after making this list, the Hook is still a rodent winter vacation spot.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2024
• Our people would go on vacation and bring back their sample shampoos and soaps and things like that from hotels.
  — David Frese, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
• But then the next [reaction] was, my wife was going by herself to Hawaii for a little vacation.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• That goes for a meal at an L.A. restaurant or a vacation on a private beach on a Caribbean island.
  — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 11 Apr. 2024
• Some questioned the timeline: Why did Lisa go on a vacation when her husband was having surgery on a brain tumor?
  — USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2024
• One of them has started coming out west to vacation at our house twice a year and now has followed us to our warm-weather winter home.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2024
• Demand for gas across the country rises around spring as more people go on vacation.
  — Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2024
• Snuggled in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, Parton’s vacation destination first opened its gates in May 1986.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
• Plus, the chunky buckle and trendy stitching add charming details that make this pair perfect for vacations of all kinds.
  — Alexandra Domrongchai, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2023
• Only a few days ago, the conventional wisdom was to book now or lose any chance of a summer vacation.
  — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2023
• Or maybe to Orlando for a family vacation at Walt Disney World?
  — Aaron Valdez, The Enquirer, 12 Apr. 2024

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• State and national parks in the U.S. had one heck of a 2020, as many of us chose to vacation in wide-open spaces.
  — Scott Bay, Travel + Leisure, 12 Mar. 2021
• The Sydow family used to vacation at a quiet beach in Cambria and for Erik the ocean is a respite.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2021
• Nothing beats the chance to vacation at a chalet-style cabin in the Adirondacks on 80 acres of private land.
  — Isis Briones, House Beautiful, 28 July 2022
• And what about the people who choose to vacation in these circumstances?
  — CNN, 21 Jan. 2023
• There are loads of short-term rentals in town, which cater to an Italian market who often vacation for the month of August.
  — Anne Roderique-Jones, Travel + Leisure, 23 July 2023
• Earlier that month, the pair vacationed in Mexico and were filmed dancing with the same group of friends.
  — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 4 Feb. 2024
• She’s a travel nurse who also wanted to vacation a bit in the Sunshine State.
  — Michael Williams, SFChronicle.com, 29 Dec. 2020
• Visitors from around the world are welcomed to vacation here.
  — CNN, 24 July 2021
• When the fires broke out, my colleague Gio Benitez had been vacationing on Maui.
  — Becky Worley, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2023
• Cindy Borgeson: Our family would vacation in the Redwoods and we'd be camped by a creek ...
  — CBS News, 16 Oct. 2021
• Women who vacation at least twice a year have a lower heart attack risk than those who do so rarely.
  — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 22 Nov. 2022
• Lindsey Schmidt, who was pregnant at the time, was driving her children to vacation Bible school when the crash occurred.
  — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2023
• Break out your Céline sandals and get ready to vacation like Europe’s elite.
  — Lilit Marcus, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2023
• The pair had vacationed in Mazatlán before and had previously sailed there from San Diego.
  — oregonlive, 21 Apr. 2023
• As early as the 1930s, the madras shirt found its way to America by way of the wealthy tourists who could afford to vacation in the Caribbean—even in the height of the Great Depression.
  — Raksha Vasudevan, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 May 2023
• Odom and his then-girlfriend Lucia chose to vacation in Utah to spend some time together.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Apr. 2021
• The couple vacationed in Greece for the actor's birthday, according to Page Six.
  — Jordyn Taylor, Men's Health, 25 Aug. 2023
• Shaquille O'Neal just got a helping hand from some vacationing children — and the sweet moment was caught on camera.
  — Lindsay Kimble, Peoplemag, 18 July 2023
• At the same time, the governor has also appealed to tourists to keep vacationing in Hawaii – while avoiding West Maui.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Aug. 2023
• Growing up in Texas, this was one of our favorite spots to vacation to escape the summer heat, and this year was no exception.
  — Jessica Dupuy, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2021
• In the fall of 2022, Brownstein’s mom and stepfather were killed in a car accident while vacationing in Italy.
  — Maria Sherman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2024
• While Americans now vacation less in every month of the year, summers have seen by far the steepest decline.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2023
• Now the middle class could vacation in Turkey or Vietnam.
  — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2022
• While vacationing in the Swamp, guests will have the chance to stay up late, swap stories, and eat like an ogre — because in the morning, Donkey’s making waffles!
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
• Corpus Christi is pretty much the gateway, gateway to the Gulf for many San Antonians who vacation along the coast.
  — Chris Quinn, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Mar. 2022
• In another room, white cages once held the expensive rugs that wealthy East Siders used to store here before heading to vacation out of town.
  — Matthew Healey, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2022
• This is the second family today vacationing from Australia that brought their kid in to meet me.
  — Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• Both ends of the funny, dark film are about imbalances of power and who gets to wield them, and audiences might never vacation the same way again.
  — The Editors, Town & Country, 30 Sep. 2022
• People who pay taxes that contribute directly to the quality of the parks should be able to get first dibs in vacationing to those parks.
  — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 22 Mar. 2024
• Middle-class Russians had gotten used to vacationing in Europe.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024