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 cruise ship will bring the evacuees to West Palm Beach, Florida.
    CBS News, 7 Sep. 2019
  • These evacuees would, no doubt, like to return to their homes.
    Dennis Ross, Foreign Affairs, 13 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Among the evacuees was Lady Gaga, who had to leave her home in Malibu.
    Suzannah Weiss, Teen Vogue, 14 Nov. 2018
  • As the hour approached in Yemen, Al Samawi was at the dock, but had been told his name did not appear on the list of evacuees.
    Karen Berkowitz, chicagotribune.com, 8 May 2018
  • The number of evacuees in the three shelters on the island has nearly doubled in the last few days to 409.
    Heidi Chang, latimes.com, 1 June 2018
  • The Red Cross has also opened shelters to help evacuees.
    Amanda Mitchell, Marie Claire, 12 Nov. 2018
  • The figure rose as many evacuees prepared for the eruption to last for weeks or even months.
    Fox News, 6 May 2018
  • 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 cruise ship brought evacuees to West Palm Beach, Florida.
    CBS News, 8 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • Hundreds of evacuees have been forced from their homes for nearly three weeks.
    CBS News, 22 May 2018
  • Right now, the City of Chico is trying to restore a sense of normalcy for evacuees.
    Umair Irfan, Vox, 17 Nov. 2018
  • 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
  • Carhart said a number of evacuees who lost their homes in the Camp fire were being forced to evacuate once more.
    Melody Gutierrez, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2024
  • In Chico, residents and evacuees watched noon turn dark.
    Tessa Love, Longreads, 8 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • Elijah spoke with evacuees from the Abaco Islands and Freeport.
    Hal Boedeker, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Sep. 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
  • Advertisement At the market, the evacuees sat on fold-out chairs outside a camper.
    Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
  • While in Orlando, the actress found time to sing songs for evacuees at a nearby hurricane shelter.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2024

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