How to Use evacuee in a Sentence

evacuee

noun

• One hundred evacuees spent the night at a school during the storm.
• The total is now five among the evacuees brought to the base from the Grand Princess cruise ship.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 21 Mar. 2020
• When the evacuees drive up, all the volunteers cheer and clap.
  — TIME, 16 Oct. 2023
• The first group of evacuees brought to the U.S. in 2021 were set to lose their parole status in July.
  — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 1 May 2023
• The email in question came the same day the evacuees arrived from Wuhan, China.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 21 Feb. 2020
• The county set up shelters where evacuees could spend the night.
  — TIME, 5 Feb. 2024
• More evacuees will likely land on US soil in the near future.
  — Steve Mollman, Quartz, 2 Feb. 2020
• Among the congregants at St. Sophia’s: a few evacuees from Ukraine.
  — Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 7 Mar. 2023
• When one evacuee came in looking for a ballcap and couldn’t find one, word spread.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Dec. 2020
• The Red Cross said 575 evacuees were spread across five shelters on Monday.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2023
• Even a Red Cross shelter that had been set up for evacuees had lost its power.
  — Time, 15 Aug. 2023
• The evacuees were seeking shelter in a U.N. school and at a hospital.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2023
• The latest wave of evacuees arrived from Freeport and waited at the Port of Palm Beach for their relatives and friends.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2019
• In Chico, residents and evacuees watched noon turn dark.
  — Tessa Love, Longreads, 8 Nov. 2019
• The Israeli army’s maps do not indicate clear safe zones or areas for evacuees to head to.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2023
• Many of these evacuees are being housed and fed in hotels in the north and south — at government expense.
  — Itay Stern, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2023
• The fact that four Japanese evacuees were asymptomatic is a case in point.
  — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 5 Feb. 2020
• An evacuee in her 20s began teaching kids at the hotel how to skateboard.
  — Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022
• Germany and Italy each have set time limits of no more than two weeks for U.S. processing of any one evacuee on their soil.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2021
• The area of Kaanapali, where many fire evacuees have been sheltering at hotels, is set to reopen in phase two.
  — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 9 Oct. 2023
• Bay Area chefs rally to feed fire evacuees and first responders.
  — Jason W. Lloren, SFChronicle.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• The vast majority of Afghan evacuees have been left in limbo.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2023
• The evacuees knew little to nothing about Italy, its language or its culture.
  — Nariman El-Mofty Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
• Most European evacuations took place out of a site on the outskirts of Khartoum, and evacuees had to make their way across the city to reach it.
  — Jack Jeffery and Noha Elhennawy, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2023
• And every evacuee who comes into the U.S. also goes through health screening.
  — Aamer Madhani, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Sep. 2021
• There are 40 bunkers underground, said one evacuee who worked at the plant, five of which are equipped with basic supplies and triple bunk beds to host civilians.
  — Vivian Salama, WSJ, 17 May 2022
• On behalf of evacuees, can’t thank you enough for taking this beautiful huge risk.
  — Norma Young, Quartz Africa, 14 Mar. 2020
• Hundreds of thousands of those evacuees are living in sprawling tent camps.
  — TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
• While 21 shelters were opened for evacuees, many families chose to stay with friends and family or sleep in cars or RVs.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Nov. 2019
• Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians fled their homes that day, many traveling west to Lviv, and the roads were jammed with the cars of evacuees, Didula recalled.
  — Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024