Examples of evacuee in a Sentence
One hundred evacuees spent the night at a school during the storm.
the report said the evacuees would be placed in temporary shelters
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The attack had immediate human costs and has sweeping political implications, including changes to federal asylum and immigration reviews for thousands of Afghan evacuees who arrived under Operation Allies Welcome.
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Associate News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
World Relief is one of the refugee resettlement agencies that assisted in the relocation of Afghan evacuees.
—Kiki Intarasuwan, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
The Urals, Siberia, the middle Volga, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan eventually received sixteen million evacuees, perhaps the most ever moved across land by a single directive.
—Joan Silber, New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2025
On the second night after the blaze, dozens of evacuees set up mattresses in a nearby mall, many saying official evacuation centres should be saved for those in greater need.
—Joyce Zhou, USA Today, 28 Nov. 2025
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Associate News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
World Relief is one of the refugee resettlement agencies that assisted in the relocation of Afghan evacuees.
—Kiki Intarasuwan, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
The Urals, Siberia, the middle Volga, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan eventually received sixteen million evacuees, perhaps the most ever moved across land by a single directive.
—Joan Silber, New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2025
On the second night after the blaze, dozens of evacuees set up mattresses in a nearby mall, many saying official evacuation centres should be saved for those in greater need.
—Joyce Zhou, USA Today, 28 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for evacuee
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“Evacuee.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evacuee. Accessed 8 Dec. 2025.
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evacuee
noun
evac·u·ee
i-ˌvak-yə-ˈwē 
: an evacuated person
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