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Example sentences for: vacant

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The position of British poet laureate, made vacant last year by the death of Ted Hughes, has still not been filled but, as the Daily Telegraph of London reported Wednesday, Tony Harrison, one of the leading contenders, excluded himself as a candidate with a poem published this week:
Edmund Ross was a little-known newspaperman with no political experience when the governor of Kansas named him to fill a vacant Senate seat in July 1866.
It first happened outside in 1960, and now, frets Reba White Williams, former head of the New York City Art Commission, "it seems as though wherever there is a vacant spot, anybody can _______________ without any consideration of how it looks."
In the hot, humid summer months it can feel as if the entire population of Tokyo and Yokohama is here, searching in vain for a vacant patch of sand.
Meanwhile, a four-member McKinsey "engagement team" set up shop in a vacant law school office.