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.
• 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
• The man was able to safely evacuate the home with two dogs, Joiner said.
  — Alexis Stevens, ajc, 27 Oct. 2022
• On the morning of Nov. 8, a fire chief made the call via radio to evacuate the eastern side of Paradise at 7:46 a.m.
  — Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2025
• 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
• More than 1,500 people had to evacuate the area near the U.S.-Mexico border when the fire erupted Wednesday.
  — CBS News, 2 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Sentsov was part of an effort to deliver food and supplies to them, and to evacuate them.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Aug. 2022
• The entire building was forced to evacuate, and no one was injured.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 1 May 2023
• High winds and scorching heat have fueled the fire and forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes.
  — Lorraine Taylor, Fox News, 5 Sep. 2022
• Already, the fire has forced thousands to evacuate their homes and charred 46 structures.
  — Marisa Gerber, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• Then came the attacks in October, and the order to evacuate.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
• After the order to evacuate came with a knock on the door at 5 a.m. on Friday, the 38-year-old travel agent went to work, as usual.
  — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Within 12 hours, the family of 11 was forced to evacuate again.
  — Dalia Faheid, CNN, 18 Jan. 2025
• 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
• The truth is, many of us with disabilities aren’t just another parent in the room, person on the plane, or citizen trying to evacuate a fire.
  — Rebekah Taussig, TIME, 24 Feb. 2025