Explore Evacuate through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like empty or eliminate. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Evacuate meaning
- To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from.
- To cause (or help) to leave or withdraw from.
- To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum.
Using Evacuate
- The main meaning on this page is: To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from. | To cause (or help) to leave or withdraw from. | To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum.
- Useful related words include: empty, eliminate, egest, excrete.
- In the example corpus, evacuate often appears in combinations such as: to evacuate, evacuate the, evacuate to.
Context around Evacuate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Evacuate
- In this selection, "evacuate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, protagonists, tokyo, nigerians and bucky stand out and add context to how "evacuate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include advised to evacuate tokyo as and and to evacuate them from. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "evacuate" sits close to words such as acceleration, bodily and contempt, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with evacuate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A wildfire forced Scott and Leanne Clouthier to evacuate from Hay River. (12 words)
Civilians are repeatedly called upon to evacuate southward for their own safety,” the army said. (15 words)
British citizens have been told to ‘evacuate now’ as wildfires swept through the island of Rhodes leaving devastation. (18 words)
Because of the time of year and the lack of infrastructure, the community had to evacuate to an impromptu tent city up on a hill away from the island that makes up the majority of the community. (37 words)
A train derailed and spilled a chemical in a remote part of eastern Kentucky on Wednesday, prompting officials to encourage residents of a small town to evacuate amid concerns about air quality. (32 words)
Another MSU student, Emma Riddle, tweeted around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday that she was among the former Oxford students who had to evacuate the high school during Crumbley’s attack. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
Typhoon Hagibis Slams Tokyo, Millions Asked To Evacuate More than six million people were advised to evacuate Tokyo as Typhoon Hagibis bore down on Saturday.
About 6,800 people in eight other communities in the territory have already had to evacuate their homes, including the small community of Enterprise, which was largely destroyed.
After a final boss that employs very few of the skills gained throughout the game, the protagonists evacuate the island the game takes place on.
After the U.S. military withdrew and Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in 2021, the Masts helped them evacuate to the United States.
And the ever-increasing nature of the blaze is worrying Victoria, who is too scared to sleep in case of the need to evacuate.
Another MSU student, Emma Riddle, tweeted around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday that she was among the former Oxford students who had to evacuate the high school during Crumbley’s attack.
As a ceasefire has been called in Sudan, several countries, including India, are attempting to evacuate their citizens from a conflict-ridden nation.
As part of efforts to evacuate Nigerians caught up in the ongoing crisis in Sudan, the federal government says it is set to begin airlifting of evacuees.
As they evacuate Bucky, Peggy calls out to him and tells him Steve is the one piloting the suit, which makes the older man hesitate.
At least 1,500 people live in the evacuation zone, though it is not known how many residents actually obeyed the call to evacuate after the fire began Tuesday afternoon.
A train derailed and spilled a chemical in a remote part of eastern Kentucky on Wednesday, prompting officials to encourage residents of a small town to evacuate amid concerns about air quality.
At the Sheraton hotel in the city of Adana, where a number of buildings had collapsed in the initial quake, families crammed into elevators with their luggage to evacuate the building.
A wildfire forced Scott and Leanne Clouthier to evacuate from Hay River.
A woman in Rhodes for her honeymoon has spoken of the traumatic moment she was forced to evacuate her hotel due to the huge wildfires spreading across the Greek island.
Because of the time of year and the lack of infrastructure, the community had to evacuate to an impromptu tent city up on a hill away from the island that makes up the majority of the community.
British citizens have been told to ‘evacuate now’ as wildfires swept through the island of Rhodes leaving devastation.
But a series of winter storms has already started refilling the lake, which straddles Kings and Tulare counties, causing residents to evacuate and flooding croplands and ranches.
Civilians are repeatedly called upon to evacuate southward for their own safety,” the army said.
FM Dendias on Sunday had a phone conversation with his French counterpart Catherine Colonna with the aim to ensure the Greeks’ safety in Sudan and to evacuate them from the country.
Guelph police said the threat came in to their dispatch centre around 9:30 a.m., and the university made the decision to evacuate the buildings.
Common combinations with evacuate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to evacuate 157×
- evacuate the 28×
- evacuate to 12×
- evacuate from 12×
- evacuate their 10×
- evacuate and 8×
- they evacuate 4×
- evacuate safely 4×
- evacuate people 4×
- evacuate in 4×