make vacant

Example Sentences

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Other landlords are allowing their empty windows to be filled with artwork — efforts that generate good will and make vacant spaces look less bleak.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2022

Having thus far hurried forward the matter, it was not in the nature of the woman to wait patiently for death to make vacant the throne of the aged Servius.

From Roman Women by Brittain, Alfred

Then, he liked not her parentage; she was a constant reminder of one who had been like to make vacant the throne of France, and to destroy, root and branch, the proud house of Orleans.

From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart

“The Danube empties into the Black Sea:” say, flows; to empty means to make vacant; no river can properly be called empty, until it is entirely dried up.

From Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected by Anonymous