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• The factory was evacuated after toxic gases escaped from a pipe.From the entry escape
• The military built a bunker to help evacuate the citizens safely from the bombings.From the entry bunker
• The house was on fire, but Alex still insisted to complete that game before evacuating. Priorities.From the entry priorities
• The evacuated flask imploded with a pop when it could no longer stand the outside air pressure.From the entry evacuated
• An evacuated bellows and mechanical linkage operates an aneroid barometer.From the entry aneroid
• In some cases you would shelter in place and in some cases you would evacuate.2004 September 22, Patricia McGinnis, quotee, “U.S. Representative John Shadegg (R-AZ) Holds Hearing on Emergency Warning Systems”, in…. From the entry calmability
• They isolate; they evacuate the area; and they call the bomb squad.1978, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures, Tagging of Explosives…. From the entry bomb squad
• Despite these precautions the city was evacuated and the Communists were able to move in unopposed.1948 July 30, Robert C. Strong, Memorandum by the Consul at Tsingtao (Strong) (FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1948, THE FAR EAST…. From the entry Lin-i
• Yet after her brother was detained and disappeared by Israeli forces at a checkpoint as he evacuated south months ago, Ms.2024 October 25, Ghada Abdulfattah and Taylor Luck, “Under deadly Israeli siege, north Gaza residents face terrifying ultimatum”, in The…. From the entry disappear
• Klavdiia Voskoboinikova, 87, who retired to the village of Korolivka, was one of those who refused to evacuate.2022 April 6, Danielle Sheridan, “‘What is this pit?’ I asked the Russians. They said: ‘This is a graveyard for you’”, in Chris Evans…. From the entry Klavdiia
• West Group, RA, under Major Crowe evacuated their HQ at Wan Chai Gap and established a new HQ at Victoria Gap.2019, Philip Cracknell, “The Japanese Advance”, in Battle for Hong Kong, December 1941, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page…. From the entry Wan Chai Gap
• Passengers evacuated at the station in Dingyuan, in Anhui province.2018 January 25, Lusha Zhang, Se Young Lee, “Chinese high-speed train fire triggers evacuation”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived…. From the entry Dingyuan
• We had not evacuated the Martiniére fifteen minutes today before it was swarming with Pandies like a nest of ants.2014, Major Octavius H. S. G. Anson, With H.M. 9th Lancers During The Indian Mutiny, →ISBN. From the entry pandy
• On outlying islands controlled by Taiwan, people started evacuating homes in case the missile tests escalate into something nastier.1996 March 9, Ian Johnson, “Taiwan tries to stand tall But residents rush to secure property; some prepare to flee”, in The Baltimore Sun…. From the entry Tungchu
• Vacuum drying cabinet for evacuating and pre-drying of the presspacks of copper coated sheets or laminates, complete with accessories.1982, India. Ministry of Finance, National Budget, page 77. From the entry presspack
• The obstensible purpose as announced by the US that this superformidable task force was intended to help evacuate the West Pakistanis.1978, Sivalenka Rama, Role of India in Bangladesh Independence Movement, Rama, page 52. From the entry superformidable
• The next day the train to Tung-kuan was stopped and evacuated several times as Japanese planes flew overhead.1975, Roderick Stewart, Bethune, General Publishing Co. Ltd., →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 122. From the entry Tung-kuan
• In Yingde, a city in Guangdong authorities have evacuated some residents to other parts of the city and advised others not to leave their homes.2022 June 22, “China: Floods in the south force evacuations, destroy property”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 22 Jun…. From the entry Yingde
• Around 50 people were evacuated from a rush-hour London Overground service on October 12, after an eight-car train overrode the buffers at Enfield Town station.2021 October 20, “Network News: Commuter train crashes into buffers at Enfield Town”, in RAIL, number 942, page 8. From the entry override
• His government had just carried out a court order to evacuate about 40 settler families at the Amona outpost, declared illegal a decade earlier.2020 June 9, David M. Halbfinger, Adam Rasgon, “Israel Court Rejects Law Legalizing Thousands of Settlement Homes”, in New York Times. From the entry Amona
• Minstrelry (making oneself up as “the other” to take the other over, to evacuate difference, to control representation) is indeed a dangerous and unethical practice.2007, Judith Miller, Ariane Mnouchkine, page 58. From the entry minstrelry
• I wondered if I had done a wise thing, staying with those few Outer Bankers who spurned the National Weather Service's advice to evacuate.1987 October, Charles E. Cobb, Jr., “North Carolina's Outer Banks”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, page 490. From the entry Outer Banker
• Civil Defense turned out, and started to evacuate the neighborhood, and to put it mildly, there was quite a brouhaha before things quieted down.1972, John Drury Clark, “Halogens and Politics and Deep Space”, in Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants, New…. From the entry brouhaha
• Their attack on Yingcheng, northern part of the province, ended in a retreat, and they announced that they would evacuate Macheng, east of Yingcheng.1940 April, Lin Yu, “The "China Incident"”, in Philippine Magazine, volume XXXVII, number 4 (384), →OCLC, page 144. From the entry Yingcheng
• “Perhaps you didn’t evacuate space completely.1937, Astounding Stories: Lost in the Dimensions, page 58. From the entry ultradimensional
• This person had evacuated with her family from Haerbin, which was under Communist control, thinking that it would be easier to repatriate from Changchun than northern Haerbin.2016 [2012], Homare Endo, “The Red Glass Bead”, in Michael Brase, transl., Chazu: Chugoku kenkoku no zanka [Japanese Girl at the Siege of…. From the entry repatriate
• The MoD said the injured men received immediate medical attention and were evacuated by air to the military hospital at Camp Bastion, but three could not be saved.2013 May 1, Nicholas Watt, Nick Hopkins, “Afghanistan bomb: UK to 'look carefully' at use of vehicles”, in The Guardian, archived from the…. From the entry life-threatening
• Subsequently, it became evident that Iitate was a hot zone with very high levels of radiation contamination and all of its residents and evacuees had to be evacuated.2012, Jeff Kingston, Contemporary Japan, page 210. From the entry hot zone
• When a banker and a developer arrive to find that the commune has not been evacuated, the spirit of resistance is awakened in the old kibbutzniks.2009 January 16, Susan Walker, “When the kibbutz goes kaput”, in Toronto Star. From the entry kibbutznik
• A break in a sluice-gate threatened the land of his brigade and immediate action was necessary so that they could be evacuated over to higher land south.[1978 February, Rewi Alley, “The Epic of Chumatien”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVII, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN…. From the entry Xincai
• As does sometimes happen, one particular tank in our fishhouse supported fish and plants better than any other, so the inmates were evacuated and the young Discus introduced.1956, Water Life and Aquaria World - Volumes 11-12, page 126. From the entry fishhouse

Meaning of evacuate

1. verb To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from.
2. verb To cause (or help) to leave or withdraw from.
3. verb To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum.

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Questions about evacuate in a sentence

How do you use evacuate in a sentence?

Evacuate is used as a verb. For example: “The soldiers evacuated the fortress.”

What is a short sentence with evacuate?

“The soldiers evacuated the fortress.”

What does evacuate mean?

Evacuate means to leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from.