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
• 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
• Puckett issued a command to leave him behind and evacuate the area.
  — John Parkinson, ABC News, 29 Apr. 2024
• In March, Russia announced plans to evacuate 9,000 children from the city to parts of Russia less impacted by the war.
  — Anna Gordon, TIME, 13 May 2024
• Then the sirens went off in the building to evacuate, and a bunch of us recovered to an apartment really nearby.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 May 2023
• Residents of Kharkiv evacuated as the reserve troops arrived in the city to stage a defense.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 10 May 2024
• When a fire broke out in the Hotel Congress in downtown Tucson in 1934, guests were evacuated.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2024
• Though Aceh had virtually no time to evacuate, people in places further afield might have been saved had the alarm been raised.
  — WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
• Finally, the door is opening and we’re evacuated to the football field.
  — Emma Bowman, NPR, 7 Sep. 2024
• Residents are urged to follow updates and be prepared to evacuate if the orders are issued.
  — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024