How to Use evacuate in a Sentence

evacuate

verb
Definition of evacuatenext
Synonyms for evacuatenext
  • 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
  • Against George’s wishes and Rita’s better judgment, George becomes one of the hundreds of thousands of children evacuated from the city during the Blitz.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
  • According to Fulton County officials, a set of five bomb threats were called in to law enforcement officials in the morning for two polling sites in Union City, leading to police evacuating the locations to sweep them.
    — Yash Roy, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024

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