What is "vacant lots"

Usage examples of "vacant lots".

We took Vermont to Slauson, then headed east, passing storefront churches and hair-straightening parlors, vacant lots and liquor stores with no names--only neon signs blinking L-I-Q-U-O-R at one in the afternoon.

Some of the money had been spent on the sister's twenty-four-hour nursing care and medical bills, but most went into real estate: Starkweather had amassed an empire of over eleven thousand California acres, primarily vacant lots in run-down neighborhoods that he never developed.

I looked at the pictures on the walls: generations of kilt-clad Spragues, Cathcarts cutting the ribbons in front of orange groves and vacant lots ripe for development.

So he turned hard left, taking a street through a wide strip of vacant lots.

There'll be another suburb pretty quick, over in Waterford, where there was nothing but a bunch of vacant lots until this year.

It was a Seiko, not terribly expensive, but in this city you didn't snooze in vacant lots without losing your stuff.

It was three or four square miles of slums and row houses and small factories and vacant lots.

I used some of it and breathed deeply for a little while and looked out over the vacant lots.

Because Moe at the Highway Commission told Joe down at Joe's Construction, and Sue who works at the front desk at Joe's told Lou at Lou's Construction and pretty soon the big Waterford land boom is on and the developments are going up in the vacant lots, and also the high rises, the con­.

He looked at the yellow boards of new houses, at the vacant lots, at the cranes and derricks, at the few towers rising in the distance.

They streaked through two vacant lots behind Ettie's building and emerged onto Ninth Avenue.

Augustus Foundation, buys the two vacant lots, torches the property on the third and builds bis garage.

Danny swallowed and glimpsed a string of vacant lots, dirt shouldered, off the right side of the street.

There were fist fights between men in the vacant lots and on street corners.

What most surprised me-what most surprises most people-is how many vacant lots there were.