Example Sentences
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An update from the region on Friday morning said the centre of Biscarrosse was currently being evacuated.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Hundreds of homes were evacuated from an area that ranks among France’s most affluent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Hundreds of people fled by boat from the Cap Ferret peninsula in western France on Friday, as authorities ordered it evacuated in the face of a rapidly advancing wildfire.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
Tens of thousands of people are being evacuated from the tourism destination west of Bordeaux, as firefighters continue to battle wildfires that have raged in the Gironde region for days.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
In 1654 in Regensburg, and then again in 1656 in Magdeburg, Otto von Guericke evacuated the air from a copper sphere with an air pump.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
