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
• Lay out the evacuation plan, both from the house (in case of a fire) and the area (in case of a natural disaster).
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Dec. 2024
• Column: The nightmare of evacuations for the elderly and disabled in the path of the fires.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Crews stopped the fire’s progress around 4 p.m., and the evacuation orders and warnings were lifted.
  — La Jolla Light, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Still, there were sights to make an evacuation expert cringe.
  — Ingfei Chen, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2022
• 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
• In an evacuation zone was Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s club and home, built about a quarter-mile inland.
  — Terry Spencer and Freida Frisaro, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Nov. 2022
• 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
• An evacuation warning had been issued, and the air around them was stifling.
  — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Aigul Ahmed, 45, filled 10 bags and had already boarded up her home, which also sits in an evacuation zone.
  — Jared Leone, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2022
• Alex Sorey said his deputies have made five arrests within evacuation zones since the fire started.
  — Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Sep. 2022
• 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 fires, which engulfed tens of thousands of acres in the Los Angeles area and forced mass evacuations, prompted schedule changes for many sports teams and leagues.
  — Alex Andrejev, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
• 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
• Airboats, water rescue boats, ATVs, drones and the temporary bridge all were used in the evacuation process.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 29 Nov. 2022
• In the Cannon House Office Building across the street, a fire alarm sounded, prompting an evacuation.
  — Annie Karni, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• To receive updates for your evacuation zones, please visit Genasys Project.
  — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 13 Mar 2025