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How to use vacancy in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun

Vacancy means an unoccupied position or job. Example: “Jobseekers are entitled to personalised jobsearch planning and job-matching, with direct access to vacancies.”

Examples of vacancy by meaning

nounAn unoccupied position or job.

  • Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.1965, Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution

More sentences with vacancy

  • Jobseekers are entitled to personalised jobsearch planning and job-matching, with direct access to vacancies.From the entry jobsearch
  • Some vacancies have opened up due to retirements.From the entry open up
  • It is tempting to see these vacancies through the feature-not-a-bug lens of the Republican Party’s antigovernment politics.2023 October 31, Nicole Hemmer, “Opinion: Hard-right Republicans say they hate government, but they sure love the power”, in CNN. From the entry antigovernment
  • Vacancies were becoming more and more rare as rejuvenators plied their controversial trade, turning good citizens into multicentenarian eloi.2014, Greg Bear, Queen of Angels, →ISBN. From the entry multicentenarian
  • Amazingly, twenty men applied to fill the vacancy.1959, Albert Lansing, Endurance, page 25. From the entry pay off
  • But the vacancy on the court is a reminder that the next president will have great influence over the future of reproductive rights.2016 March 3, “What the Election Means for Reproductive Rights”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry reproductive right
  • Our results identify and classify dependencies of the work function on several parameters including specific surface termination, surface reconstructions, oxygen vacancies, and heterostructuring..2016, Zhicheng Zhong, Philipp Hansmann, “Tuning the work function in transition metal oxides and their heterostructures”, in arXiv. From the entry heterostructuring
  • Hence, the oxygen vacancy loses some of its “negative charge” and takes on a “positive character” that counterattracts the leakage of negative charge.1967: the Chemical Society of Great Britain and the University of Nottingham, The alkali metals: an International Symposium held at…. From the entry counterattracts
  • Individuals can oppose one another full-force on subjects like Obamacare, or a border wall, or the best person to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, in concert with this project.2017 January 20, Conor Friedersdorf, “The American People's Burden on Inauguration Day”, in The Atlantic. From the entry politick
  • Harper announced Friday he will not appoint senators to a red chamber that already has 22 vacancies as long as the government can continue passing legislation.2015 July 24, Jason Fekete, “Stephen Harper says he will not appoint any more senators to ‘unaccountable’ upper house”, in National Post…. From the entry red chamber
  • Brian J Dunn points out an aspect of the Rapture I hadn't considered: thousands, even millions, of new housing vacancies coming onto an already oversaturated market.2011 May 21, Megan McArdle, “The Housing Market is Not Rapture Ready”, in The Atlantic. From the entry rapture
  • All at once something rose through the vacancy, the frightening void that was like the dead leg some kids had been adept at giving in the playground.2011, Roger Garfitt, Horseman's Word: A Memoir, →ISBN, page 306. From the entry dead leg
  • In ordered structures, vacancies in the PbO blocks have the form of a square (in symesite), or a double square (butterfly-like vacancies in kombatite and sahlinite).2011, S V Krivovichev, Minerals as Advanced Materials II, page 322. From the entry kombatite
  • The semivacancies are separated by a variable number of Ge adatoms in metastable T₄ positions and can diffuse or eventually merge back into a single vacancy.2008, Edmund G. Seebauer, Meredith C. Kratzer, Charged Semiconductor Defects: Structure, Thermodynamics and Diffusion, page 219. From the entry semivacancy
  • Also, the high energy set of coimplantations exhibit superior activation which is likely the result of an increased number of As vacancies available for the carbon atoms to occupy.2000, Richard Morton, Gallium arsenide integrated circuit technology. From the entry coimplantation
  • If the disqualifications leave a vacancy for the full complement of finalists, swim-offs shall be continued among the disqualified swimmers until a full complement of finalists is assured.1973, Aquatics Guide, with Official Rules and Swimming and Diving Standards. From the entry finalist
  • He says that there is a vacancy in Percy's household, owing to one of his esquires being made a knight, and a page has been promoted to an esquireship.1903, George Alfred Henty, Both sides the border: a tale of Hotspur and Glendower, page 32. From the entry esquireship
  • To my understanding–and this, the reason for the amount of overtime that this casually employed individual was receiving was because of the "enormacy" of the vacancy in that particular branch.2010, Fourth Session - Thirty-Ninth Legislature of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: Debates And Proceedings, Official Report…. From the entry enormacy

Meaning of vacancy

  1. noun An unoccupied position or job.
  2. noun An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc.
  3. noun Empty space.

Full definition of vacancy

Questions about vacancy in a sentence

How do you use vacancy in a sentence?
Vacancy is used as a noun. For example: “Jobseekers are entitled to personalised jobsearch planning and job-matching, with direct access to vacancies.”
What is a short sentence with vacancy?
“Amazingly, twenty men applied to fill the vacancy.”
What does vacancy mean?
Vacancy means an unoccupied position or job.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vacancy (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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