How to Use evacuation in a Sentence

evacuation

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • As of Day 4, the school is under an evacuation warning, but its little cabins tucked in the hillside are still standing.
    — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The documents also detailed how the grandparents fled for their lives and called 911 and how fear of a bomb blast prompted the evacuation of nearby homes.
    — CBS News, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The flames, which officials say could be caused by low humidity and high winds, did prompt evacuations of about 170 homes.
    — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Across town, a bomb threat briefly forced the evacuation of the Palace of Justice, Belgian federal police confirmed.
    — Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The alarm prompted an evacuation of a House office building.
    — Lindsay Whitehurst, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Her 16-year-old has created an evacuation to-do list on her cellphone.
    — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 5 June 2024

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