evacuation

Example Sentences

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Tens of thousands of people have left Tyre, but around 20,000 remain, including 15,000 displaced from surrounding villages, despite Israeli evacuation warnings covering most of the city and a broad swathe of the south.

From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026

The head of Russia's state nuclear corporation, Rosatom, Alexei Likhachev, said on Saturday that the evacuation of 198 people remaining in the plant had started that morning.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

Residents north of John F. Kennedy Drive and west of Sinclair Street and Redlands Boulevard were under an evacuation warning as of 1 p.m.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

A building was destroyed on Tuesday in Ghobeiry on the road to the airport following an evacuation order.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

A massive and chaotic evacuation of the city was under way in the middle of the autumn mud season, called the rasputitsa.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein