How to Use evacuee in a Sentence

evacuee

noun
  • One hundred evacuees spent the night at a school during the storm.
  • Dekel was founded by many of those evacuees.
    — Larry Luxner, Sun Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2025
  • These evacuees would, no doubt, like to return to their homes.
    — Dennis Ross, Foreign Affairs, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The county set up shelters where evacuees could spend the night.
    — TIME, 5 Feb. 2024
  • When the evacuees drive up, all the volunteers cheer and clap.
    — TIME, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Hundreds of evacuees have been forced from their homes for nearly three weeks.
    — CBS News, 22 May 2018
  • When one evacuee came in looking for a ballcap and couldn’t find one, word spread.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Dec. 2020
  • The figure rose as many evacuees prepared for the eruption to last for weeks or even months.
    — Fox News, 6 May 2018
  • The state has opened its parks to evacuees and their pets, including horses.
    — Kate Payne and Heather Hollingsworth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Nearly 200 Airbnb hosts opened their homes to evacuees for free.
    — Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2017
  • More evacuees will likely land on US soil in the near future.
    — Steve Mollman, Quartz, 2 Feb. 2020
  • The total is now five among the evacuees brought to the base from the Grand Princess cruise ship.
    — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 21 Mar. 2020
  • These tasks can help ease the burden on the hosts and return a sense of normalcy for evacuees.
    — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Animal shelters in the area are stretched thin by hundreds of dogs and cats dropped off by evacuees.
    — Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Even a Red Cross shelter that had been set up for evacuees had lost its power.
    — Time, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Churches became shelters for the thousands of evacuees, who may have no place to live for months.
    — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Our photographer met evacuees in the cities, towns, and camps that have taken them in.
    — National Geographic, 17 May 2016
  • But contrary to the social media posts, evacuees didn't have to worry about toll fees.
    — Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The evacuees shared stories of their escapes and of the kindness of the strangers who have welcomed them.
    — National Geographic, 17 May 2016
  • Many of these evacuees are being housed and fed in hotels in the north and south — at government expense.
    — Itay Stern, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2023
  • The Israeli army’s maps do not indicate clear safe zones or areas for evacuees to head to.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Among the evacuees was Lady Gaga, who had to leave her home in Malibu.
    — Suzannah Weiss, Teen Vogue, 14 Nov. 2018
  • The email in question came the same day the evacuees arrived from Wuhan, China.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 21 Feb. 2020
  • Carhart said a number of evacuees who lost their homes in the Camp fire were being forced to evacuate once more.
    — Melody Gutierrez, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2024
  • Most of the elderly evacuees had been promised lodging elsewhere in the city, but had few other options.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Another notice is on the hunt for fire relief volunteers who help fire evacuees.
    — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Right now, the City of Chico is trying to restore a sense of normalcy for evacuees.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 17 Nov. 2018
  • Many East Coast evacuees drove over to the Gulf Coast seeking hotel rooms.
    — Rick Neale, USA TODAY, 21 May 2017
  • The cruise ship will bring the evacuees to West Palm Beach, Florida.
    — CBS News, 7 Sep. 2019
  • The cruise ship brought evacuees to West Palm Beach, Florida.
    — CBS News, 8 Sep. 2019

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