VACANCY in a Sentence

Learn VACANCY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
26 example sentences for VACANCY, such as:
1. Tom lifted his lip and showed the vacancy.
2. Each week a single vacancy will be advertised.
3. George's the best person to fill this vacancy.
4. There are still two vacancies on the school board.
5. Lucy is the best person to fill this secretary vacancy.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of VACANCY
vacancy
 n.  being unoccupied
 n.  an empty area or space
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  For a while she sat motionless, as if reflecting, her arms stretched along the arms of her chair, her eyes fixed on vacancy.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  There was a considerable vacancy between the boat and the ship, and down between this was the sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
3  At the crotch or junction, these flukes slightly overlap, then sideways recede from each other like wings, leaving a wide vacancy between.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
4  They dance in monotonous measure, round after round, hour after hour, with eyes fixed upon vacancy, as if they were only half conscious, in a constantly growing stupor.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
5  Then there appeared upon the glazed vacancy of his eyes a diamond point of intelligence.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
6  There was a vast vacancy between her, the singing villagers and the piping child.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
7  Yet still in his face one saw the watchful look, the slight vacancy of a cripple.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
8  Getting a vacancy did not seem to be such a very easy matter, after all.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
9  Suppose that some one turned up in your place who wrote a completely different hand from that in which you had applied for the vacancy, of course the game would have been up.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. The Adventure of The Stockbroker's Clerk
10  Tom lifted his lip and showed the vacancy.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
11  For a year he had held this rank, and expected promotion on the first vacancy.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September.
12  The eye of the invalid still retained that vacancy of expression which prevented his son from obtaining any knowledge of the feelings which were passing in his mind; he listened, nothing more.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort.
13  Nay, the surly father even began to agitate with the authorities on Chichikov's behalf, and so enabled our hero, on a vacancy occurring, to attain the stool of a Chief Clerk.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
14  A vacancy in the heart does not accommodate itself to a stop-gap.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES...
15  "I ought, but I don't," thought Amy, as her eye went from the bright page to May's discontented face behind the big vases, that could not hide the vacancies her pretty work had once filled.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY
Example Sentence:
1  The company uses the agency when a vacancy needs to be filled on an interim basis.
2  His resignation left a vacancy on the board of directors.
3  Her going on maternity leave will create a temporary vacancy.
4  Lucy is the best person to fill this secretary vacancy.
5  George's the best person to fill this vacancy.
6  Each week a single vacancy will be advertised.
7  The agency will let you know if they have any suitable vacancies.
8  There are still two vacancies on the school board.
9  When vacancies occur, the office puts out feelers to the universities.