How to Use vacant lot in a Sentence

vacant lot

noun
  • The men took the boys to a vacant lot, robbed them and shot them to death.
    — Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 26 July 2024
  • Or what's going on with that vacant lot?
    — Journal Staff, The Providence Journal, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Or what's going on with that vacant lot?
    — Journal Staff, The Providence Journal, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Couches on the side of the road, pipes in a vacant lot, tires in a city park.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 17 June 2024
  • Buying a vacant lot offers the chance to build a home on your own terms.
    — Michael Kolomatsky, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Buying a vacant lot offers the chance to build a home on your own terms.
    — Margaret Roach, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Never built, the project would have added a new garage and guesthouse on the vacant lot.
    — Darrell Hofheinz, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The property is now a vacant lot by a streetcar stop.
    — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 1 May 2026
  • An online video shows the chopper nose-dive into a vacant lot and explode in a ball of flames.
    — Steve Fisher, USA TODAY, 29 June 2024
  • What was once a vacant lot with an old-school gas station in midtown Wauwatosa is now an ice cream shop.
    — Sophia Vento, Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2023
  • The apartments would be on the large vacant lot at the site, and not within the Sears building itself.
    — Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Police found James, who had been shot multiple times, dead in a nearby vacant lot.
    — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2025
  • There is no direct access to the beach, so swimmers have to trek down a slippery footpath on a vacant lot to get there.
    — Mohamad El Chamaa, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
  • His body was found two weeks later on March 6 in a vacant lot, rolled up in a carpet and wrapped in plastic.
    — Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2023
  • That vacant lot now covers one of the more prominent pieces of undeveloped land in the area.
    — Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 26 Jan. 2024
  • When she was asked to list a vacant lot, Jones discovered the property wasn’t easy to find in the first place.
    — David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 6 June 2024
  • Police said the woman had been found inside the tent, which was set up against the southern wall of a vacant lot between two viaducts.
    — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2025
  • The best solution to building on the vacant lot down the street will not be found in land-use law and litigation.
    — Tim Keane, Scientific American, 15 Feb. 2024
  • It could be seen in its entirety from across a vacant lot on the northwest corner of the intersection.
    — Jeremy Duda, Axios, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The sedan came to a stop against the wall of a nearby apartment building, while the truck went through a fence surrounding a nearby vacant lot.
    — Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The plan was to purchase a vacant lot and build a house on it, but land is expensive in Japan and their budget wouldn’t allow it.
    — Tim Hornyak, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The city acquired the inn along with an adjacent vacant lot for future development.
    — Karen Bartunek, The Arizona Republic, 9 Nov. 2024
  • The business would close after 6pm making the vacant lot a perfect choice for a pop-up food operation.
    — Kyle Russell, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The next night, Eberhart and I were parked between a hamburger joint and a vacant lot prowled by feral cats.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The home and adjacent vacant lot total 250 feet of panoramic Gulf views.
    — Jason Dill september 5, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
  • That search led them to exactly the middle of nowhere, to this vacant lot, and to Costello, who was unfazed by the challenge.
    — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Neighboring vacant lot owners can also submit an application and split the cost and the lot.
    — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 2 Sep. 2023
  • One of his early projects involved helping turn a vacant lot into a community garden.
    — Kathleen Toner, CNN Money, 7 Dec. 2025
  • The vehicle left the road and traveled through a vacant lot before coming to a stop on Murray Road.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Behind that parcel is a vacant lot Straz said could fit another restaurant, but no plans are underway.
    — Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2026

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