evacuation
noun
Examples of evacuation in a Sentence
Jennifer Peltz, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2024
That earthquake left cracks in the Washington Monument, spurred the evacuation of the White House and Capitol and rattled New Yorkers three weeks before the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
—Lucia Suarez Sang, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2024
The attack permitted rioters to overwhelm the final police line defending a staircase on the southwest side of the Capitol and to breach the building immediately afterward, forcing the evacuation of the Capitol.
—Spencer Hsu, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
The airport, in an area of Port-au-Prince where families like Charles’ once found safety, has been shut down by armed groups, further complicating evacuation efforts.
—Char Adams, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2024
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—Q Hamirani, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
But if the arrival of a multinational security mission seems far off, any hopes for an American intervention appear to be the stuff of history books; US operations in Haiti have so far focused on evacuation flights for American citizens, an undertaking that only started Wednesday.
—Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
Two of those key differences included that the military had advised that the U.S. keep at least 2,500 service members in Afghanistan to maintain stability and a concern that the State Department was not moving fast enough to get an evacuation started.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 20 Mar. 2024
Republican politicians and private companies have also organized their own evacuations.
—Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 20 Mar. 2024
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14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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