VACATION in a Sentence

Learn VACATION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
59 example sentences for VACATION, such as:
1. He did not idle away his entire vacation.
2. His vacation of a good position was unwise.
3. They're on vacation for the next two weeks.
4. We'll take a vacation sometime in September.
5. The travel agent booked our vacation cruise.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of VACATION
vacation
 n.  the act of making something legally void
 v.  spend or take a vacation
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  Most of the students went home to spend their vacation.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV.
2  In those days very few students were permitted to remain at the school during vacation.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV.
3  With this disappointment I gave up all hope of getting out of the town of Hampton for my vacation work.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV.
4  Before the end of the vacation she gave me some work, and this, together with work in a coal-mine at some distance from my home, enabled me to earn a little money.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV.
5  While she was at her Ohio home on her vacation, the worst epidemic of yellow fever broke out in Memphis, Tenn.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII.
6  During this first Christmas vacation I went some distance from the town to visit the people on one of the large plantations.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX.
7  In nineteen years of continuous work I have taken but one vacation.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV.
8  It seemed mean and selfish in me to be taking a vacation while others were at work, and while there was so much that needed to be done.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVI.
9  The fact was that I did not know how to take a vacation.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVI.
10  I did not go home for my first summer vacation, but stayed in Lincoln, working off a year's Greek, which had been my only condition on entering the freshman class.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: I
11  Before I entered the Law School I went home for the summer vacation.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I
12  He was spending his summer vacation, as he always did, with his mother at Grand Isle.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In II
13  He had nearly three hundred dollars in the bank, and might have considered himself entitled to a vacation; but he had an easy job, and force of habit kept him at it.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
14  But the Christmas vacation was very far away: but one time it would come because the earth moved round always.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
15  First came the vacation and then the next term and then vacation again and then again another term and then again the vacation.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  The travel agent booked our vacation cruise.
2  He kept in touch with us while he was on vacation.
3  In this job you get four weeks holiday / vacation a year.
4  Every year my father would call a family powwow to discuss where we were going on vacation.
5  He did not idle away his entire vacation.
6  No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
7  They're on vacation for the next two weeks.
8  His vacation of a good position was unwise.
9  It is possible to vacation at some of the more expensive resorts if you go in the off-season.
10  I worked in a small beachside restaurant during the college vacation.
11  She thought a lot about how to spend this winter vacation.
12  All summer vacation long they just bummed around.
13  We'll take a vacation sometime in September.
14  We must decide between going home and staying at school during this winter vacation.
15  Every summer we rent a bungalow on Cape Cod for our vacation home.