How to Use evacuate in a Sentence

evacuate

verb
  • People who live along the coast are being evacuated as the hurricane approaches.
  • Residents were ordered to evacuate the building.
  • Residents have been ordered to evacuate.
  • During World War II, children were evacuated from London to the country.
  • Some of those closer to the water had a rough night — from their homes flooding and the calls to evacuate.
    Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The phone call that forced officials to close the cemetery and evacuate the grounds came in at 7:40 a.m., a spokesperson said.
    Omari Daniels, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Police said the suspect appears to have fled the mall, adding that it was evacuated.
    Adam Sabes, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The infants who were evacuated to Egypt on Monday were received by a fleet of medics.
    Hajar Harb, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
  • It – it – and it was put in place, but only at the time that Kabul was falling and the embassy was starting to be evacuated.
    CBS News, 24 Mar. 2024
  • For Katya Lee and her crew, that meant splitting camp to conserve food and water, and sending a group of 20 on foot in an attempt to evacuate.
    Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • But the hundreds of thousands who evacuated from northern Gaza to the south were warned not to return in leaflets dropped by Israel.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 25 Nov. 2023
  • When a fire broke out in the Hotel Congress in downtown Tucson in 1934, guests were evacuated.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The United States offers to evacuate him and his family.
    Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Two days after the crash, residents were evacuated over fears the tankers could explode.
    Mark Osborne, ABC News, 9 Apr. 2024
  • After evacuating nearby homes and locking down the school, firefighters were summoned to shut off the gas supply to the home.
    Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The Sheriff's Department evacuated a nearby park that was at risk due to the gunfire.
    The Arizona Republic, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The mall is being evacuated, the Ocala Police Department said while urging people to avoid the area.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Some area schools were evacuated while others were ordered to shelter in place.
    Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The miners were evacuated above ground and no one was injured, DTEK said, adding that coal production would resume once the mines had been repaired.
    Andrew Carey, CNN, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Because the park is located on an island, first responders had to evacuate the campers by boat.
    Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 6 July 2023
  • Downstream, in the city of Kherson, the flooding forced thousands of people and animals to evacuate, many of them under Russian fire.
    Jędrzej Nowicki, The Atlantic, 31 July 2023
  • One of Jeff’s first questions for the group goes to Bruce, who hit his head and sustained a concussion mere minutes into the first challenge last season and had to be evacuated from the game.
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The decision to destroy the homes came after the High Court of Justice struck down an appeal by the settler residents of Ofra to evacuate the homes but not destroy them.
    Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Sanchez said deputies arrived quickly and helped evacuate the buildings.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The mall has been evacuated and will likely remain on lockdown for at least another 12 hours, Balken said.
    Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The police said the faculty of arts building, located in Prague’s Old Town, had been evacuated.
    Jenny Gross, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Before Gallagher could hit the stage for his headlining performance, the venue was evacuated in response to a bomb threat.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 10 July 2023
  • One minute later, at 2:25 p.m., Pence was evacuated by the Secret Service to a secure location in the complex.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The Indigenous Aleuts were forcibly evacuated by the government and shipped to internment camps.
    Susan Portnoy, Travel + Leisure, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Tens of thousands of Israelis have evacuated from communities near the volatile borders with Gaza and Lebanon.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2023

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