evacuee

noun

evac·u·ee i-ˌva-kyə-ˈwē

-kyü-ˈē-

Synonyms of evacuee next

: an evacuated person

Examples of evacuee in a Sentence

One hundred evacuees spent the night at a school during the storm. the report said the evacuees would be placed in temporary shelters

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The closures are part of ongoing efforts to keep evacuees safe as the fire continues to spread along the Malibu coastline. —

Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024 CalFire said that the Pacific Coast Highway is closed between Carbon Canyon and Corral Canyon Road to evacuees only. —

David Chiu, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024 The campgrounds hosted evacuees during previous hurricanes including Irma in 2017, Florence in 2018 and Idalia last year, the speedway said. —

Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 8 Oct. 2024 This 5-year-old from Gaza is learning to live with one leg and untold loss: In Qatar’s capital, a compound housing Palestinian medical evacuees from Gaza is a living catalog of what war does to the human body. —

Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for evacuee