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How to use the word evacuate in a Sentence?

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The only victims this shooter was able to get to were victims that were stuck in some sort of open area or hallway, several were able to evacuate safely. The ones that couldn’t do that safely did exactly what they were taught and trained to do.

Brink Fidler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s not elevated to the point where it’s necessarily like an immediate ‘evacuate the building’ health concern.

Albert Presto

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We need better data on what’s actually beneath these volcanoes, continuous monitoring systems would allow us to have a better estimation of when an eruption might occur. With these systems, we would likely know about an eruption a few days before it happens, and people would be able to evacuate and stay safe.

Kajetan Chrapkiewicz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

In every place they want to evacuate Jews, there will be a struggle.

Itamar Ben Gvir

added by acronimous
2 years ago

We deeply regret what happened in our bullfight arena, i want to ask all the citizens who are in the area to please evacuate, authorities are already responding to the emergency and the injured have been taken to hospitals. Please, let's evacuate, together let's help the emergency services so they can do their job.

Juan Carlos Tamayo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are now witnessing the accumulation of manpower, heavy armored vehicles and artillery in the direction of Sloviansk, the enemy is using its well-known tactics, trying to move closer to our line of defense in order to fire artillery at the cities. Enemy artillery is already reaching certain parts of Sloviansk. This is another confirmation that people should evacuate.

Pavlo Kyrylenko

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The initial group of officers that were on scene, at that point, they were at a point of disadvantage because the shooter was able to barricade himself inside that classroom. There was not sufficient manpower at that time and their main, their primary focus was preserve any further loss of life, so they started breaking windows around the school, and trying to rescue, evacuate children and teachers while that was going on.

Chris Olivarez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Several thousand, tens of thousands, were forced to evacuate in the direction of the Russia Federation and we don't know where they are, they've left no document trail.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We need a complete evacuation from Mariupol, our most important mission today is to save every life... And there are hopes that we will succeed. For example, there are 26 buses that have to go to Mariupol to evacuate, but unfortunately, they haven't received permission to move.

Vadym Boichenko

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Our most important mission today is to save every life... And there are hopes that we will succeed. For example, there are 26 buses that have to go to Mariupol to evacuate, but unfortunately, they haven't received permission to move.

Vadym Boichenko

Found on CNN
2 years ago

No one can imagine the nightmare survivors have lived through during the Holocaust, now they need to evacuate again — their security, all things familiar are again being stripped from them and they are forced to live with uncertainty and fear.

Ruediger Mahlo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We have focused our support on efforts to evacuate people from Ukraine to neighboring countries, relocation to safer zones within the country when evacuation is impractical, support for refugees, and support for communities and individuals remaining in their homes and communities.

Moshe Hauer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was horrible. even if we wanted to evacuate women and children from here, it's just plain impossible.

Andriy Abba

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The problem is we can’t evacuate the kids from the ground. We can only evacuate them by air, all routes to our city are mined.

Serhiy Zosimenko

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We can’t do that, because all ways are blocked, all ways are blocked and right now we are encircled — everywhere is Russians and we don’t have a way to evacuate the people. And everyone who had plans to evacuate himself already moved.

Vitali Klitschko

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Seven Chicago firefighters had three members inside, and Seven Chicago firefighters had four on the porch, seven Chicago firefighters believe a flashover occurred. Seven Chicago firefighters're not exactly sure. Seven Chicago firefighters're going to do an investigation into it, but the three members were able to self-evacuate and the four members were actually blown off the porch, and they were outside.

Fire Commissioner Annette Nance-Holt

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Travel in the evacuation area around 4400 North Cherry Street will become increasingly difficult as police begin to shut down roads and prohibit vehicle traffic. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to evacuate as soon as possible. Use personal vehicles and carpool when possible. Parking anywhere on campus is allowed.

Wake Forest

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Some of the injured are in desperate condition, we will have to evacuate them to a specialized hospital.

Olinga Prudence

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I called my wife, and she started collecting valuables and clothes to evacuate.

Chris Smith

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I’m not saying we’ve got to be in Afghanistan forever, but I am saying: Did any of you throw your rank on the table and say, ‘Hey, it’s a bad idea to evacuate Bagram Airfield, a strategic airbase, before we evacuate everyone?’ did anyone do that? And when you didn’t think to do that, did anyone raise their hand and say, ‘We completely messed this up?'.

Stuart Scheller

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I had to devise a plan on what to do. And the plan was to evacuate the building, and then rescue those that couldn’t get out, and then I had to give those orders to the fire officers, captains and lieutenants and battalion chiefs that came in, and the firefighters.

Joseph Pfeifer

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

People keep forgetting that climate change has a body count, especially for people of color, when the rubber hits the road, we're talking about a subway system that's unusable, a car ownership rate that's nowhere near what White, higher-income folks have in New York. So how are we suppose to evacuate in a city that's a mass transit city with the subway shut down, if people don't have cars ?

Eddie Bautista

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We've worked intensely to evacuate and relocate Afghans who worked alongside us, and are at particular risk of reprisal. We've gotten many out, but many are still there. We will keep working to help them. Our commitment to them has no deadline.

Frank McKenzie

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I'm not saying we need to be in Afghanistan forever, but I am saying, did any of you throw your rank on the table and say, ‘Hey, it’s a bad idea to evacuate Bagram Airfield, a strategic airbase, before we evacuate everyone’? did anyone do that? And when you didn’t think to do that, did anyone raise their hand and say, ‘We completely messed this up’?

Stuart Scheller

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

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