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How can you use “vacations” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The topic of a fast-track trade bill is technical--it's a guarantee that Congress will act quickly to vote up or down any new trade accord rather than lay on amendments--and it's non-pressing--it's something that the Clinton administration has tried to secure since 1995 and won't actively be pursuing for several more weeks until after the president and Congress return from their summer vacations.
The point of the piece is for the author to rue the state of contemporary politics from the perspective of one suddenly removed from it by an election loss, but what he mostly communicates instead is that he loves his newfound ability to: take more and better vacations, to be a star panelist (on "losers") at a Rennaissance Weekend, and to fly first class and buy a Japanese motorcycle and take free trips from corporations without having to explain himself.
When I was young, we took family vacations near Lake Huron, where pronunciation was subject to the same lack of certainty, providing the potential for some proverbial southwestern Ontario jocularity.
"This agreement sacrifices tomorrow's hopes for today's headlines," Gephardt says in USAT . The deal is expected to be voted into law this week so that members of Congress can start their August vacations right on time.
Do you think there's any real counter-argument to the notion that none of us have any moral right to buy expensive clothes or eat at restaurants or go on fancy vacations?