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vacant
adjective as in empty; unoccupied
adjective as in absent-minded; expressionless
Example Sentences
In 2016, the city agreed to purchase a downtown high-rise, but it now sits vacant, because of asbestos violations, costing taxpayers about $18,000 a day.
For weeks, city leaders have been reeling over the hundreds of millions of dollars it could take to fix or walk away from the downtown high rise that has for months sat vacant.
Meanwhile, on the windward side, the mover may have exposed a formerly interior penguin to the boundary by leaving his old spot vacant.
There’s a lot of vacant industrial space that could easily house tens of thousands of units.
There are of course plenty of theories as to why so many storefronts in New York are vacant.
Set among the vacant houses of suburban New Mexico, the film offers a bleak perspective on the possibility of growth and renewal.
This is a tremendous find, not just because he discovered all these first veterans of our first war in a vacant lot.
They are often set in quasi-rural areas, with vast parking lots and vacant land surrounding them.
There he unlocked a door and pointed dramatically to a vacant bed, looking beautifully white, wide and deep.
It takes a lot of hard work to appear that vacant, but Pedrad had been perfecting Kim since long before she landed on SNL.
He deposited it on the vacant seat, clambered up behind the wheel, and started.
About seven months ago the governor presented Juan de Miranda for a ración that was vacant.
I didn't like to be done; the man urged me to occupy one place that was yet vacant; my evil genius prompted me to do so.
Goodell lighted another cigarette and nonchalantly seated himself in the vacant chair.
As soon as any become vacant, I shall take care to provide for them as speedily as possible, as your Majesty so piously orders me.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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