Evacuate

//ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt//

"Evacuate" in a Sentence (20 examples)

The threatening floods made it necessary to evacuate the town.

We have less than five minutes to evacuate the whole building.

There's a fire in the building. We have to evacuate immediately.

There's danger that the levee will break. We have to evacuate immediately.

We have 24 hours to evacuate the city.

The alarm rang and everyone had to evacuate.

We must evacuate.

Prepare to evacuate.

I don't evacuate them.

I'll go tell everybody that we need to evacuate the building.

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The soldiers evacuated the fortress.

The firefighters told us to evacuate the area as the flames approached.

The Norwegians were forced to evacuate the country.

The firefighters decided to evacuate all the inhabitants from the street.

Early the next morning I set off on the long and hazardous trek through jungles and hills into Assam, and regretfully said "good-bye" to the gallant little Burma Railways, which had functioned to the last and played a big part in evacuating many thousands of refugees and wounded soldiers in the path of the rapidly advancing Japanese.

The scientist evacuated the chamber before filling it with nitrogen.

Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important doctrines.

In the living state, the body is observed to receive aliment; to assimilate a part; to evacuate what is redundant or useless; [...]

to evacuate a contract or marriage

it would not evacuate a marriage after cohabitation and actual consummation

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