Synonyms
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
Recent Examples on the Web
Event attendee Scoops took to social media to celebrate the second year of being an evacuee.
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Detroit Free Press, 7 Apr. 2024
The next day, their names were added to the list of evacuees who could cross the border into Egypt and then fly to Qatar for medical treatment.
—Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024
Demand for his tutelage soared after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021, ushering in a fresh wave of Afghan evacuees to the United States, including Modesto.
—Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
Many of the infections in 2022 resulted from low immunity among the thousands of evacuees airlifted from Afghanistan that year, prompting a mass vaccination campaign to curb further spread.
—Alexander Tin, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2024
To leave the enclave through the Rafah border crossing, Palestinians can try and get their names added to a list of evacuees, but their travel needs to be approved by both Israeli and Egyptian authorities, according to Steve Sosebee, founder of the nonprofit organization HEAL Palestine.
—Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2024
The evacuees were taken to a French Navy vessel off the coast of Haiti to be transported to Fort-de-France in the Caribbean island of Martinique.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
The evacuees knew little to nothing about Italy, its language or its culture.
—Nariman El-Mofty Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
Hundreds of thousands of those evacuees are living in sprawling tent camps.
—TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
Detroit Free Press, 7 Apr. 2024
The next day, their names were added to the list of evacuees who could cross the border into Egypt and then fly to Qatar for medical treatment.
—Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024
Demand for his tutelage soared after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021, ushering in a fresh wave of Afghan evacuees to the United States, including Modesto.
—Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
Many of the infections in 2022 resulted from low immunity among the thousands of evacuees airlifted from Afghanistan that year, prompting a mass vaccination campaign to curb further spread.
—Alexander Tin, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2024
To leave the enclave through the Rafah border crossing, Palestinians can try and get their names added to a list of evacuees, but their travel needs to be approved by both Israeli and Egyptian authorities, according to Steve Sosebee, founder of the nonprofit organization HEAL Palestine.
—Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2024
The evacuees were taken to a French Navy vessel off the coast of Haiti to be transported to Fort-de-France in the Caribbean island of Martinique.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
The evacuees knew little to nothing about Italy, its language or its culture.
—Nariman El-Mofty Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
Hundreds of thousands of those evacuees are living in sprawling tent camps.
—TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
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First Known Use
1918, in the meaning defined above
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evacuee
noun
evac·u·ee
i-ˌvak-yə-ˈwē 
: an evacuated person
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