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
• 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
• Honea called in law enforcement from throughout the region to help with the evacuation.
  — Christopher Cox Spencer Lowell, New York Times, 22 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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 alarm prompted an evacuation of a House office building.
  — Lindsay Whitehurst, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2023
• 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
• With an evacuation underway, his colleague went to look for a clear staircase.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 17 Mar. 2024
• Medhat Abbas, a spokesman for the ministry, confirmed the evacuation in a phone call with The Associated Press.
  — NBC News, 19 Nov. 2023
• The evacuation of the building affects not just the 40 or 45 people who attend Sunday services, but also the others in the community whom the church serves.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
• Based on that system, text alerts and evacuation notices can be sent out to homes, giving hours of advanced warning for residents to leave.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2023
• The false alarm prompted an evacuation of the building and contributed to the mayhem that day as Congress rushed to stave off a government shutdown set to begin that night.
  — Kayla Guo, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• After the evacuation order was lifted and officials said the fire was 100 percent contained, the couple returned to their home and stayed there, as would a few of their neighbors.
  — Brianna Sacks, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
• Sutter flagged the design as both an evacuation risk in case of emergency and too small for carrying cargo.
  — Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2023
• The land is continuing to move, but the evacuation order continues to be limited to these 12 homes.
  — Teddy Grant, ABC News, 10 July 2023
• France sent evacuation emails to its citizens after its embassy in Niamey was attacked over the weekend and protesters took to the streets.
  — Karen Deyoung and Dan Lamothe, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2023
• An air evacuation crew responded to fly the child to a hospital, alongside a heavy presence of first responders.
  — Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2024
• Not all have heeded the mandatory evacuation orders, including Arie Almog, who has lived the last 40 of his 74 years in Metula.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023
• Within the evacuation area, the tourist hot spot known as the Rio del Mar Esplanade is currently flooded with several inches of stormwater.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024