How to Use evacuation in a Sentence

evacuation

noun

• The scene was still active and evacuations had taken place around the home.
  — Eshaan Sarup, The Arizona Republic, 12 Jan. 2024
• Some evacuations were ordered as the flames spread, but fire crews were quickly able to slow the blaze.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2023
• At 2:30, with the fire’s progress stopped, the evacuation zone was reduced and a 6-mile stretch of Mount Rose Highway was reopened.
  — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
• For some, there was a sense of déjà vu given their evacuation from Ukraine a year-and-a-half earlier.
  — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 21 Oct. 2023
• Four years later, the Witch fire prompted an evacuation, but no homes were lost.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
• Schools have been closed for the rest of the week, and some residents haven’t been home since the initial evacuation orders Friday.
  — Michelle Watson, CNN, 7 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Honea called in law enforcement from throughout the region to help with the evacuation.
  — Christopher Cox Spencer Lowell, New York Times, 22 June 2023
• As of Sunday afternoon, Oct. 20, the fire had been held to 15 acres and the evacuation order had been lifted for all but a small area, shown as a red tint on the map.
  — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2024
• The United States has yet to announce plans for an evacuation, but some of its citizens have left with the help of the Europeans.
  — Sam Mednick, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Aug. 2023
• The concerns about the concrete have been known for years, and schools had been told to prepare if evacuations were necessary at some point.
  — Megan Specia, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2023
• The family’s home, around 35 miles east of Tampa, wasn’t even in an evacuation zone.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 13 Oct. 2024
• His family refused to move back at the time of evacuations, even as their neighbors left.
  — Jesse McKinley Lauren Petracca, New York Times, 12 June 2023
• The road closures and the evacuation order and warning were lifted about an hour later.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2023
• The Al Jazeera crew showed the city's central square abandoned and strewn with empty chairs, used by people waiting for evacuation.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023
• The scene led to the deaths of four people as well as the evacuation of Congress and the vice president himself, who was whisked to an undisclosed location.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
• The evacuation order came so quickly that Christy Hood and her husband, Richard, only had time to grab their two children and two dogs.
  — CBS News, 19 June 2024
• In the Los Angeles area, an evacuation order remained in place for some residents of a canyon area that was scarred by a 2022 fire.
  — John Antczak, Christopher Weber, Julie Watson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Feb. 2024
• In the Cannon House Office Building across the street, a fire alarm sounded, prompting an evacuation.
  — Annie Karni, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• Floor plans for some schools in the files include arrows from each classroom showing evacuation routes that students and staff should take.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 11 Jan. 2024
• At the Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah, south of the evacuation line, several bodies wrapped in white shrouds were lined up outside on the ground.
  — TIME, 22 Oct. 2023
• The flames, which officials say could be caused by low humidity and high winds, did prompt evacuations of about 170 homes.
  — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
• Across town, a bomb threat briefly forced the evacuation of the Palace of Justice, Belgian federal police confirmed.
  — Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2024
• The alarm prompted an evacuation of a House office building.
  — Lindsay Whitehurst, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2023
• Her 16-year-old has created an evacuation to-do list on her cellphone.
  — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 5 June 2024
• Ukraine’s military accused Russian troops of stealing cars and looting goods from the front-line areas under the guise of the evacuation.
  — Leo Sands, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
• The evacuation, which Israel says was voluntary, left behind only Israeli forces and a skeleton crew to care for those too sick to move.
  — Najib Jobain, Bassem Mroue, and Samy Magdy, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Nov. 2023
• Since the fire and evacuation, Good Samaritan has been handling all the health center’s births, and some from Brockton Hospital as well.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Feb. 2023
• With an evacuation underway, his colleague went to look for a clear staircase.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 17 Mar. 2024
• The airstrikes followed a series of sweeping evacuation warnings on Sunday by the Israeli military for the area, known as the Dahiya — more warnings than in any other day this month.
  — Euan Ward, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024