How to Use evacuation in a Sentence

evacuation

noun
  • An evacuation can cost as much as a house.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Come up with an evacuation plan and make sure your car has a full tank of gas.
    — Kelly McCarthy, ABC News, 19 June 2026
  • This slows the evacuation and puts lives at risk.
    — Zach Wichter, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
  • That’s too late for evacuations in many places.
    — Rick Thoman, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2025
  • This was not our first evacuation rodeo.
    — Sarah Mlynowski, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
  • An evacuation map can be found here.
    — Austin Turner, CBS News, 19 May 2026
  • An evacuation map can be found here.
    — Austin Turner, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Stay out of the evacuation zone.
    — Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2026
  • Updates on evacuation zones and routes can be found here.
    — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Still, there were sights to make an evacuation expert cringe.
    — Ingfei Chen, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The spill did not prompt an evacuation order.
    — Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The scene was still active and evacuations had taken place around the home.
    — Eshaan Sarup, The Arizona Republic, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Know your evacuation zones and routes in advance.
    — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 1 June 2026
  • 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
  • The flames first prompted the evacuation of hikers and campers.
    — Lillian Boyd, The Arizona Republic, 12 June 2022
  • As a result, there were mass evacuations.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 26 Apr. 2026
  • But there are no evacuation orders, even for the people living in homes along these rivers and creeks.
    — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 19 May 2025
  • If water supplies are cut, that would force the mass evacuation of entire cities.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The evacuation zone was extended to six miles, then, later that day, to twelve miles.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
  • An evacuation warning had been issued, and the air around them was stifling.
    — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Four years later, the Witch fire prompted an evacuation, but no homes were lost.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Israel’s evacuation orders have hit most of the south.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Above all else, avoid the stupid mistakes that lead to injury, illness, and evacuation from the game.
    — Kristen Geil, Outside, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Any area under an evacuation order is closed to the public.
    — Kevin Sablan, Daily News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The map above shows the evacuation area in red and the approximate fire perimeter as a black line.
    — Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The map above shows the evacuation zone in red and the approximate fire perimeter as a black line.
    — Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Any area under an evacuation order is closed to the public.
    — Kevin Sablan, Oc Register, 26 May 2026
  • Those shelters may not be the closest and could be subject to an evacuation order.
    — Betsy Klein, CNN, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Residents in the flood zone have been urged to prepare for evacuation in case of dam failure.
    — CBS News, 18 Apr. 2026
  • If water reaches within an inch of the dam's top, that is when an evacuation order will go out.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026

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