vacate
verb (used with object)
to give up possession or occupancy of.
was vacating
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past progressiveof vacate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Solhi last saw Smith about a year ago, when Smith told him that he was vacating the building and was going to work from home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2023
Mark Meadows, who was vacating the seat to become President Donald Trump’s chief of staff.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2023
The distance wasn’t tremendous, less than a mile, but the psychological shift was sizable; I was vacating a way station that had passed as a home, for a room of my own.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 25, 2018
A short time later, Boehner announced that he was vacating that political position of his own free will.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2015
Just as Governor Hayes was vacating the office of chief executive of Ohio, to which he had positively refused to be re-elected, he was offered and declined the Senatorship from that State.
From The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes by James Quay Howard
