Several states simply designate a top legislative leader to fill a sudden gubernatorial vacancy.

The sudden vacancy in the 7th State Senate District has caused both parties to leap in with guns blazing.

"Is that why you have a sudden vacancy for a gunner?"

However, sudden vacancies may occur for a variety of reasons.

There could be a sudden vacancy.

His five years of experience made him one of the most experienced of the 25 umpires called up to fill the sudden vacancies.

I did hear there were a lot of sudden vacancies in Security's upper echelons not long after that.

Recess appointments are designed in the Constitution to let the President fill a sudden vacancy that occurs when Congress is away.

Killeen felt a sudden vacancy of a kind none of them had ever known.

She released her son's hand, and the little boy went hopping across the playground, relishing its sudden, uncommon vacancy.