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.
  • Residents are urged to follow updates and be prepared to evacuate if the orders are issued.
    Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Denys signed up straight away, but convinced Ievheniia to first evacuate his relatives from Kyiv to western Ukraine.
    Sasha Dovzhyk, CNN, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Tens of thousands of Israelis who were evacuated from the border months ago are pressuring their government in order to go home.
    Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 25 Nov. 2024
  • According to Reuters, all 89 passengers and six crew members were safely evacuated from the plane, per the ministry.
    Becca Longmire, People.com, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The school also received a bomb threat on Wednesday, prompting officials to evacuate three campus buildings, officials said.
    Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Dec. 2022
  • That day, the State Department ordered staff at the consulate in Wuhan and their families to evacuate China.
    Shane Harris, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The flames had escaped one of the firefighters’ containment lines, and more than sixty-five households in the village of Greenwood Lake were evacuated.
    M. R. O’Connor, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy chose to stay and fight with his people instead of accepting the West’s offers to evacuate him.
    Fox News, 22 Dec. 2022
  • This forms the centerpiece of the film, as Jack and Baba and the kids evacuate and face one bureaucratic absurdity after another.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 26 Dec. 2022
  • 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 team that evacuated him from the eastern front to Dnipro treated him on the way.
    Alice Martins, Washington Post, 13 May 2023
  • The whole city had to evacuate; the Russians were coming.
    Hazlitt, 22 Mar. 2023
  • People evacuating from the coast may have to move further to get out of the path of danger.
    Umair Irfan, Vox, 14 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • The deputy noticed a strong smell coming from the bathroom and told the students and staff to evacuate the portable.
    oregonlive, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Police said the suspect appears to have fled the mall, adding that it was evacuated.
    Adam Sabes, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The entire building was forced to evacuate, and no one was injured.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 1 May 2023
  • Then came the attacks in October, and the order to evacuate.
    Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
  • Many hundreds of people had to evacuate from their homes.
    Kendra Pierre-Louis, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Residents of the towns of Smithfield and Rodney were asked to evacuate.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
  • The infants who were evacuated to Egypt on Monday were received by a fleet of medics.
    Hajar Harb, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
  • In a twist of fate, a prestigious art school had also been evacuated to that city.
    Penelope Green, New York Times, 2 June 2023
  • Two adults living in the adjoining unit were able to evacuate.
    Austindedios, oregonlive, 5 Apr. 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
  • As scary as things were for a few seconds, Aguilar noted that no one evacuated from the restaurant next store.
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
  • 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

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