How To Use Evacuate In A Sentence

  • Much later, Tomlinson realized that the hotel had already been hit and that all the journalists were either fleeing their rooms or helping evacuate the mortally wounded reporters.
  • A team of rescue Sherpa evacuated the two men down through the towering seracs and debris to Base Camp where they were quickly flown to Kathmandu by helicopter.
  • In some pools, there are no fish or other aquatic animals at all because fishermen have even evacuated all the water with pumps in order to catch the fish.
  • People inside the 50-kilometer (30-mile) tunnel, known as the Chunnel, were evacuated through a service tunnel that runs between the two train-carrying tunnels, Eurotunnel officials said. Top Stories - Google News
  • She first encountered the phenomenon when one of her colleagues from the Top End related the story of a man who was evacuated from an outstation with a deteriorating medical condition.
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  • One hundred people were evacuated from a village near York today after a storage tank leaked, releasing an explosive cloud of propane gas.
  • It was about 11: 05 this morning, while while we were asking questions of Mr. Fleischer -- as we always do in the morning -- what we call the gaggle -- Gordon Johndroe, who is an assistant who works for Mr. Fleischer, came in and handed him a Post-it note it, and on that note it said, We must evacuate this section of the West Wing. CNN Transcript Jul 12, 2001
  • Of the original twenty captive-bred maracanas that had arrived in Brazil, one had died and eight had been evacuated; this left eleven. SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
  • Oil prices shot up nearly US $1.50 a barrel yesterday as oil and natural gas producers evacuated rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
  • Delegates evacuated the building when a suspect package was found.
  • Residents of four flats in the terraced building above the centre were safely evacuated but the animals were not so fortunate.
  • British and American warships are standing by to evacuate their citizens if necessary.
  • Nearby farms were evacuated, but no one was injured.
  • But when, on 17 December, Captain Bonaparte's gunners drove the British and Spanish troops from the key forts on those heights, Admiral Hood saw that he must evacuate the port immediately or have his fleet shot to matchwood.
  • Under proposed amendments to the Civil Contingencies Bill, the police will be able to evacuate danger areas should a ‘catastrophic incident’ occur.
  • Thousands of people were evacuated in the Carolinas and power was also cut in about 200,000 homes.
  • Tree - like shape used to evacuate or natural happy stratified two - shaped.
  • The reoccupation of all territories previously evacuated by Israel in the West Bank further eroded any modicum of trust left. Alon Ben-Meir: The Arab Peace initiative: Now or Never
  • The Rev Alan Reeve went to preach in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, last month and was evacuated two weeks later following an attack of mortar bombs and machine gun fire.
  • Three weeks ago residents were evacuated from their South Croydon homes following a fire in a workshop which contained gas cylinders.
  • On both of the previous occasions, the area was evacuated and isolated until the storm blew itself apart.
  • Thousands of people were evacuated yesterday after a giant glass dome building at a holiday complex was destroyed by fire.
  • Local police evacuated the sandy tourist beaches of Mombasa and elsewhere, and by the time the wave struck the shore was empty.
  • The United States is sending a naval task force to the area to evacuate American citizens.
  • He sold part of the lands, evacuated the old cattle, where the family lived in their decadence as a mouse (said an old farmer) lives under a firlot. Guy Mannering
  • Indeed, rebel movements prompted international relief workers to evacuate the city Friday, fearing impending violence.
  • The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel.
  • Some downtown buildings, including city hall and the county courthouse, were evacuated.
  • If someone looks like a man and has a man's build, that person may just have to evacuate his/her bladder and bowels in the men's room.
  • They are also worried that some soldiers opposed to the withdrawal will disobey orders to evacuate settlers.
  • Tell them you intend to evacuate the children.
  • The Ministry of Information accused Nasha Niva of publishing what it called an erroneous report about authorities failing to evacuate one of the victims of Monday's attacks for several hours. Belarus subway bombing death toll rises to 13
  • The lunch mural, for want of a better title, strikes an altogether different chord — that of an evacuated spring-blossomy babbling-brook alpine hinterland glorious people-scape, in which the principal technical challenge for the artist was to crank up the volume of the foliage and the foreground blossoms, whilst reining in the waters, because for obvious reasons the plash and gurgle of cataracts can be counterproductive at lunchtime. The Mural II
  • The Secret Service evacuated the White House, the press corps, the remaining staff there.
  • Now Pennsylvania governor, Ed Rendell, and medical teams flew to Haiti yesterday to try and evacuate these orphans, and his office says they ran into what they called haggling over paperwork at the embassy. CNN Transcript Jan 19, 2010
  • Nothing too wrong with that you may say, but he insists on stopping outside my house to allow his dog to evacuate its bowels.
  • By then also, all unessential civilians had been evacuated.
  • With four oil-pan pickups, the pan can be evacuated very efficiently.
  • Thus by the end of 30 May, while 120,000 troops had been evacuated, only 6,000 of these were French.
  • People were evacuated from the coastal regions in advance of the hurricane.
  • Bomb disposal experts were called to the scene, the station was evacuated and a cordon thrown around the area until the all-clear was given.
  • Most of the BEF had already been evacuated from the continent. THE LONELY SEA
  • The French military is preparing to evacuate women and children of expatriate families.
  • A wind-blown wildfire around the city of Conway has forced people to evacuate, about 60 homes.
  • Last week, about 200 non-essential workers were evacuated from an oil facility near Port Harcourt, the flashpoint of recent unrest and the hub of Nigeria's oil production and exports.
  • They all evacuated when the enemy approached the city.
  • One person died and thousands of people were evacuated from their homes as the fires - the worst to hit south-east Australia in 50 years - continued to sweep towards the city.
  • Staff evacuated the building and a roll call was taken outside.
  • An estimated 2,000,000 people either fled or were evacuated from the coastal regions in advance of the hurricane.
  • In this situation the compartment would have been evacuated and sealed using the watertight bulkhead door to the rear of the torpedo stowage.
  • Early diodes in electronics were made from metal plates sealed inside evacuated glass tubes, which could be seen glowing in the innards of old radio sets.
  • The waters continue to rise as more than 1,000 people are evacuated.
  • My cousin was evacuated by the Red Cross to a hospital in west Beirut.
  • Evacuated in wartime to the rambling country house of kindly Professor Kirk, they can't resist exploring its huge stairways.
  • Terrified and claustrophobic she vomited and evacuated her bowel and bladder.
  • A father from the evacuated village of Itate says his child's initial checkup Sunday was encouraging.
  • These cars are to be used for the President and his cabinet when they evacuate.
  • The region near the erupting volcano was evacuated rapidly.
  • In an emergency, you stop refueling any other aircraft in the pits and evacuate those aircraft, any fuel trucks and other personnel.
  • The theatre was evacuated when rain poured through the roof at the Liverpool Playhouse.
  • The United States is sending a naval task force to the area to evacuate American citizens.
  • This is a chamber that can be evacuated and purged with inert gas until all active gases are removed.
  • But Chiang, worried about endangering the entire Northern Expedition, ordered his men to evacuate Tsinan and shifted the thrust of his march west to Honan. The Last Empress
  • Residents within line of fire were evacuated from their homes and advised to take refuge at the Shuttle and Loom pub.
  • אדם קדמון, ADAM KADMON, the Primal or First Man, is the first Aziluthic emanant from the Infinite Light, immitted into the evacuated Space, and from which, afterward, all the other degrees and systems had their beginnings. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
  • Because of the war, aid workers have frequently had to evacuate their posts, making it difficult to establish any long-term programs.
  • Delegates evacuated the building when a suspect package was found.
  • At 12 months, the body's natural metabolism evacuates the copolymer from the surrounding tissue by forming carbon dioxide and water, and by 15 months, the copolymer is completely eliminated.
  • No radiation escaped the plant and there was no need to evacuate the area around the city of Mihama, about 200 miles west of Tokyo.
  • The optical paths are evacuated and the suspension systems are insulated against mechanical vibration by shock absorbers.
  • Agency staff also patrolled the River banks at the two towns where the river burst its banks, using loudhailers to advise householders to evacuate.
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  • When toxic fumes began to drift toward our homes, we were told to evacuate.
  • It is in the later stages of the disease -- that is, when the pus has been evacuated and reparative changes commenced -- that this osteoplastic periostitis is most marked, and it plays a large part in bringing about the condition of anchylosis, which we shall afterwards describe. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
  • When the flatus is offensive, either a suppository or clyster is to be administered; but otherwise the oxymel is to be discontinued, until the matters descend to the lower part of the bowels, and then they are to be evacuated by a clyster. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
  • The surrounding mountains make the city difficult to evacuate.
  • The police evacuated the village shortly before the explosion.
  • In the event of an emergency on the launch pad, the astronauts can evacuate the shuttle up to 30 seconds before launch.
  • Most of the island's inhabitants were evacuated, but the volcano continues to shower the rest with ash.
  • Windy was still making sure everyone was evacuated, and the other 3 were plenty busy.
  • Six families were evacuated from their homes as the blaze destroyed a spinning room and warehouse full of acrylic fibres.
  • The road was closed because of the smoke causing poor visibility and the caravan site was evacuated.
  • British and American warships are standing by to evacuate their citizens if necessary.
  • Summer homes and area campgrounds had to be evacuated.
  • These aromatics likewise evacuate serum from the blood, promote its circulation, and attenuate the coagulations of chyle, lympha, and succus nervosus. A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves
  • After a military coup in Nigeria, the Seals are sent in to evacuate a small group of foreign nationals, primarily a doctor, from a local mission.
  • The marines had been hastily deployed to evacuate British nationals from the anarchy.
  • I simply evacuated the fluid of the vesication and left the part exposed to dry. An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers
  • Residents of a York suburb were clearing up this afternoon after a major gas leak sparked a fireball and a blaze burned through the night causing 300 people to be evacuated from their homes.
  • The turnkeys had a rough time trying to get the crowd to evacuate the building.
  • Buses will evacuate any who can't drive away.
  • Nearly 3,000 trucks were standing idle without locomotives, two-thirds of them loaded with evacuated equipment.
  • The United States is sending a naval task force to the area to evacuate American citizens.
  • The building was evacuated and the bomb squad called.
  • Police still haven't confirmed the device was a a bomb, but they called the bomb squad and evacuated houses nearby, so media reports are leading with the phrase "collar bomb. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • When there was no word of us being evacuated, we thought that maybe the hurricane was going to miss us.
  • The police evacuated the village shortly before the explosion.
  • The original plan was to evacuate all the residents of New Orleans to safe places outside the city.
  • Geraldton homes and a school were evacuated yesterday after a gas pipe was damaged during roadworks.
  • The occupant was evacuated while electrical engineers disconnected the power, allowing the firefighters to enter.
  • Last week, about 200 non-essential workers were evacuated from an oil facility near Port Harcourt, the flashpoint of recent unrest and the hub of Nigeria's oil production and exports.
  • Views are obtained with the patient at rest, squeezing to defer a bowel movement, and straining to evacuate the rectum.
  • No one was injured during the incident but staff were evacuated as a precaution while firefighters made the area safe.
  • But tests in 1977 showed that the atoll still seethed with dangerous levels of radiation, and the inhabitants were forced to evacuate again. THE X FILES 3: GROUND ZERO
  • Police then evacuated the basement mailroom while they set about disarming the device.
  • It has forced politicians to think again about the wisdom of trying to evacuate refugees.
  • Adek Berry/AFP/Getty Images Despite the risk and warnings from officials, thousands of people who had been evacuated from the danger zone rushed back Sunday morning, piling into trucks, cars and on the backs of motorcycles to check on their livestock high up on the scorched slopes. Mount Merapi Spews More Ash
  • The nurse evacuates the patient's urinary bladder via the Crede's maneuver (ie, massaging the bladder by pressing down on the anterior, superior surface of the abdomen).
  • Terrified and claustrophobic she vomited and evacuated her bowel and bladder.
  • Things are bigger in Texas: A larger than average bird decided to evacuate its bowels above me today, deep in the heart of Texas.
  • Bush went on TV two days (Saturday) before Katrina and called for an evacuation of the entire Gulf Coast ... experts said it would take 48 hours to evacuate New Orleans ... so naturally Blanco and Nagin waited until Sunday, only 20 hours before the hurricane hit, to order the evacuation. Political fallout for Obama amid oil spill disaster?
  • The excuse that the 200,000 people were too poor to evacuate is nonsense too. Should New Orleans be rebuilt? « BuzzMachine
  • I just stepped out of my office for lunch only to find evacuated officials, fire engines, and clouds of evil-smelling smoke emanating from the top of the building. Garret Fitzgerald - the truth
  • But I'm clean and sober, and the only ting that swept through me was an uncontrollable urge to evacuate my bowels upon hearing that pap.
  • Sinclair, on a whim that was a PR masterstroke, allowed the pressmen in before most of the prisoners had been evacuated. THE SCAR
  • The bags were evacuated, sealed, and cold isostatically pressed at 200 MPa.
  • He recounts how he and his comrades were among the last to be evacuated.
  • A siphon tube evacuates the condensate via the downcomer back to the collector tube. Chapter 8
  • The waters continue to rise as more than 1,000 people are evacuated.
  • We have regular fire drills to ensure that the staff know how to evacuate the building.
  • On that day for the first time the Administration with the help of the Army evacuated people to the police thana or to school buildings.
  • The local officials understood the danger and made an informed decision to evacuate the city.
  • Forty-three obeyed an order to evacuate the premises, and the 45 who refused did not resist arrest and were charged with mischief and illegal assembly.
  • The building was evacuated, and firefighters battled the fire for more than an hour.
  • After the British evacuated, patriots returned to ruined properties and a city ravaged by fires.
  • My mate fatty halliwell has been evacuated on this scheme, lucky sod has been sent to a place called Hiroshima. Army Rumour Service
  • The previous day also the factory was evacuated after a bomb scare.
  • Made only of tough heat resistant borosilicate glass, the lantern consists essentially of two concentric cylinders, separated by an evacuated space.
  • Police evacuated nearby buildings.
  • Refugee children under the age of sixteen were liable to be evacuated; refugee children over sixteen risked being interned.
  • A thousand people were evacuated from their homes following the floods.
  • Families were evacuated to safer parts of the city.
  • People were evacuated from the coastal regions in advance of the hurricane.
  • More than 100,000 people were belatedly evacuated from the zone following the disaster.
  • The betatron consists of a doughnut-shaped evacuated chamber placed between the poles of an electromagnet.
  • The digger operator called the Ministry of Defence Police, who evacuated people from the surrounding docks and buildings.
  • ‘Please evacuate this facility, the president wishes to use it,’ they would have ordered any lingerers, hardly giving them time to zip up their flies.
  • About 94 people were evacuated from the mail distribution centre, four of whom were decontaminated and placed in hospital for observation.
  • Crews were doing back burns Tuesday night and trying to build dozer lines around Eager and Springerville to keep the flames away as law enforcement officers patrolled the evacuated areas. Thousands ordered out of Ariz. town as fire nears
  • Read in studio Cattle have been evacuated from sheds next to a burning barn at Gloucester Cattle Market.
  • We have regular fire drills to ensure that the staff know how to evacuate the building.
  • That diminished greatly after last year's storm, when several hundred thousand people were evacuated.
  • He now wants to build a transatlantic train, maglev in an evacuated tube, that would cross the Atlantic in an hour.
  • Children were evacuated from London to escape the bombing.
  • Elsewhere, dozens of residents had to be evacuated in Gwent, Wales, where hundreds of mature trees, bracken, gorse and shrubs were destroyed.
  • Black pepper and lemon can help the body evacuate extra fat without even slightly harming the skin or tissue.
  • The sick and wounded were evacuated from the war zone.
  • Six firefighters wearing breathing apparatus went into the smoke-logged building and had to force an entry into the rooms to make sure the building was evacuated.
  • Even though I was evacuated because I was very young, I remember being in air raid shelters and the tremendous feeling of compatibility with everybody.
  • The firemen evacuated the guests from the burning hotel.
  • An estimated almost 2 million people left the Houston area under orders to evacuate their city and the surrounding suburbs.
  • She dislocated both knee caps and her legs swelled so much she was evacuated to Germany until the swelling subsided.
  • Terra, 60 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, was evacuated as the fires threatened to spread.
  • There are neighbourhoods that are still evacuated and a lot of soggy basements.
  • Early diodes in electronics were made from metal plates sealed inside evacuated glass tubes, which could be seen glowing in the innards of old radio sets.
  • The unprecedented downpour deluged the nearby Spiceball Park Leisure centre.The building was evacuated, as flood water filled the basement.
  • ‘He should have evacuated the place earlier,’ said a firefighter.
  • He or she then evacuates air from the ascending aorta by infusing cardioplegia through the vent and allowing the cardioplegia to exit through the aorta.
  • The airline's resources had been stretched to breaking point as it used its aircraft to evacuate passengers from Jamaica, Cuba and the Dominican Republic.
  • Chaos reigns as paramedics attempt to evacuate the wounded, and security officials try to clear the area, fearing more bomb attacks.
  • According to the Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages, most stables house the horses on upper floors, which make it even more difficult to evacuate them if there were a fire. Reedu Taha: NYC Carriage Horse Rescued from Slaughter
  • Rex and Donald could alert the government leaders down there, evacuate communities, and save lives. MINUTES TO BURN
  • Eastern Bay of Plenty farmers are still working furiously to pump out flooded pastures as they prepare for more rain on top of the weekend's deluge, which saw 15 people evacuated from their Whakatane homes after a stopbank breach. New Zealand Herald - Top Stories
  • I think this ambition was fired - or perhaps exacerbated is a better word - by early marginal contacts with the Great, when we were evacuated to the English Lakes during the war. An Interview with Diana Wynne Jones
  • The terrible grief I felt at the miscarriage was not because my body had evacuated a waste product, but because I mourned a human spirit never to be incarnated, who would never be, never know this world.
  • His wife had been admitted to hospital for observation, and then evacuated to a hospital in Shropshire when war was declared.
  • Thousands of people were evacuated, and police snipers placed on the rooftops.
  • Have you been wondering why so many people refuse to evacuate from the coast when a hurricane such as Rita or Katrina is approaching? September 2005
  • None of us were evacuated and none of us were told what was happening, none of us were even told that there was a toxic fire. None of us have been told if there's a clean-up happening.
  • Year 11 pupils, who are prefects and perform that role on the bus, used their mobile telephones to call the emergency services and evacuated the bus, which was leaking fuel.
  • After the earthquake, residents were evacuated
  • The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel.
  • It's cool, in a toned-down bowling-shirt sort of way, but its polyester yarn is spun soft and airy, and subtle mesh vents in the back evacuate excess body heat.
  • A thousand people were evacuated from their homes following the floods.
  • Passengers were evacuated from the Northern Line station in south London.
  • Most of the early evacuated starships from Jupiter and Saturn have already landed next to their own Venus establishment.
  • Ordway returned with the party from the salt camp which we have now evacuated. they brought with them the salt and eutensils. our stock of salt is now about 20 Gallons; 12 gallons of which we secured in 2 small iron bound kegs and laid by for our voyage. gave Willard and bratton each a doze of Scotts pills; on the former they operated and on the latter they did not. Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
  • The move follows a scare on May 11, when authorities ordered workers to evacuate several federal buildings.
  • In just over a month the area was evacuated and the village literally vanished off the map.
  • When toxic fumes began to drift toward our homes, we were told to evacuate.
  • I had to send my children home on the correct date but both myself and my wife had to stay until arrangements could be made to medically evacuate me back to England.
  • Radiation was released, a part of the nuclear core was damaged, and thousands of residents evacuated the area.
  • British and American warships are standing by to evacuate their citizens if necessary.
  • The building was evacuated and the bomb squad called.
  • When an electrical current is passed through an evacuated tube containing krypton gas, a very bright white light is produced.
  • First, a light recon group would have to evacuate any civvies in the area.
  • Parlier, the most experienced, triaged the patients on the fantail in the order they needed to be evacuated - the most serious first - and passed them forward on the starboard side to Doc Moser.
  • Residents were evacuated when fire broke out in a block of flats yesterday.
  • When the alert was upgraded to an advisory, at 1:50 a.m., RCMP officers visited the local dock to see if anyone was there, and the hospital in Bella Coola, which is on the waterfront, called in extra staff in case they had to evacuate. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • Sam Barker said his father and other personnel were ordered to evacuate, but there were only four serviceable aircraft.
  • “Too long evacuate,” Jim said, falling into holophrasis mostly for the fun of it. THE WOUNDED SKY
  • All the children were evacuated from London during the war to avoid the bombing.
  • Refugees with Laptops" ... is the phrase Chas at Nature Blog used when he e-mailed me that he and Mary and their dogs, cat, etc. had been evacuated from their house by the Forest Service at the approach of the Mason Fire. "Refugees with Laptops"
  • Meanwhile, even Greensboro is sheltering people who have managed to evacuate.
  • More than 150 passengers were evacuated from a Virgin Voyager train travelling from Newcastle to Cardiff after the insects swarmed through a carriage.
  • When the flatus is offensive, either a suppository or clyster is to be administered; but otherwise the oxymel is to be discontinued, until the matters descend to the lower part of the bowels, and then they are to be evacuated by a clyster. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
  • After the eighth day a cranial abscess spontaneously opened, from the sinciput to the occiput, and a large quantity of "corruption" was evacuated. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • The surgeon uses electrosurgery, if needed, to stop bleeding and then evacuates tissue pieces from the bladder.
  • A number of CCTV cameras around King's Cross filmed Hussain emerging from the concourse on to a pavement packed with commuters holding umbrellas; many had been evacuated from the underground following the explosions, when Mohammed Sidique Khan, Shehzad Tanweer and Jermaine Lindsay had blown themselves up to devastating effect. 7/7 footage at inquest shows final bomber Hasib Hussain
  • The fire led to a few of the nearby farms and livestock being evacuated.

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