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How to use the word evacuate in a Sentence? Page #2

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Please consider evacuating if you are able, especially if you are elderly or dependent on power. That's our main concern here, is the electrical outages... post storm, and if you are going to evacuate, you know that's a responsibility that you take on -- do so as soon as possible. You do not want to be stuck on the road, when the storms impacts arise.

Collin Arnold

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The very fact that you need several hundred people doing this around the clock of their own volition -- with some even taking time off of work to do it -- means that there is an absolute logistical failure on behalf of the Erik Edstrom government, the Biden administration and the government as a whole should have seen this coming. They should have done capacity planning and properly forecasted what it would have taken to evacuate all Americans and Afghan allies, by location.

Erik Edstrom

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Financial Empowerment is profoundly Financial Empowerment. A place where we have [ running ] water, where we are not... having bags packed in case fires evacuate us.

Adriana Nichols

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Our determination to get every American citizen home and to evacuate our Afghan allies is unwavering.

The President

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Right now there are troops at-risk. We are the United States military, and we will successfully evacuate all American citizens who want to get out of Afghanistan, they are our priority #1. In addition, we intend to evacuate those who have been supporting us for years, and we are not going to leave them behind. And we will get as many out as possible.

Mark Milley

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I made it clear that the( Special Immigrant Visa) program was not sufficient. No matter how much we expanded it what was needed was an immediate evacuation. And that has been my distinct clear call to the administration for several months now, you need to evacuate our allies. Sort out the paperwork once you get these heroes to safety. And they have not headed that call.

Seth Moulton

Found on CNN
3 years ago

When it comes to medical needs, this is our biggest urgency. We have started to send medications and medical personnel to the facilities that are affected, for the people who need urgent special care, we have evacuated a certain number of them, and we will evacuate some more today and tomorrow.

Ariel Henry

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Our hearts go out to the brave Afghan men and women who are now at risk, we are working to evacuate thousands of those who helped our cause and their families.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We only have one and a half roads to get out — you have the main road and then you have the emergency access, everybody was trying to evacuate, there was a lot of confusion.

Linda Hunt

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We have firefighters that are getting guns pulled out on them, because people don’t want to evacuate.

Jake Cagle

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Right now, there are still a lot of people unfortunately in Greenville that did not evacuate. And so, we are having to deal with that... and get all those folks out.

Jake Cagle

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Evacuate area NOW. Collapse of Piney Point Stack Imminent !

Manatee County officials

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

There were two massive tremors that lasted for a long while and I assumed it was snow being cleared or something like that, then the power suddenly went out, and a neighbour came to the door and said we needed to evacuate, so I woke up my three grandchildren and told them to get dressed quickly.

Oeystein Gjerdrum

Found on CNN
3 years ago

As soon as Brenna Hosey got out of the car, almost immediately, The RV started making an announcement, somewhere along the lines of, don't quote me exactly, but,' There's a large bomb within The RV. Your primary objective is to evacuate.'.

Tyler Luellen

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We tried to save many things, but the water just carried them away, we didn't evacuate because we thought the hurricane was going to hit elsewhere.

Maria Linomontes '

Found on CNN
4 years ago

After speaking to family members, it is believed the pair was aware of the fire in the area, they had packed their belongings in preparation to evacuate but later decided not to evacuate based on erroneous information that the fire was 51 % contained.

Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We got up this morning, and then mama, she was like,' We got to evacuate,' so we started packing our clothes, and now we're here( in Austin).

Howard Amos

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We urge people along Gulf Coast to get ready now ; listen to the advice of local officials and evacuate immediately if asked, make sure to include your pets as part of your emergency plan. Due to COVID-19, the Red Cross is unable to welcome pets into our shelters for everyone's safety. If you are evacuating with pets, please consider contacting the Red Rover organization : redrover.org.

The Red

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I was sitting in my living room and I was telling my husband water is coming through the back, it was already flooded. Then the police captain came and told us to evacuate. My house is flooded.

Tanya Andrews

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We have to strike a balance between the two and evacuate people wherever it is extremely essential, otherwise people are better off in their own homes.

General Pradhan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It is urgently needed to evacuate migrants out of the Greek islands to EU countries.

Leila Bodeux

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

You have to tailor your emergency measures to the nature of the emergency. In a hurricane, you evacuate the coasts. In a virus situation, there is no reason to evacuate the coasts.

Ilya Shapiro

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We understand that the German and French governments have made arrangements to evacuate their citizens, i would hope something could be done on the part of the United States government, otherwise we're stranded.

United States

Found on CNN
4 years ago

After this call we don't have any hope from our government that they will evacuate students, we are all completely disappointed with our government.

Sahil Hassan

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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