evacuee - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • arrive: The bomb fell very shortly after evacuees arrived in the village from London.
  • carry: Sometimes she even carried both evacuees and prisoners on the same voyage.
  • receive: These were termed Neutral Areas, areas which would neither send or receive any evacuees.
  • have: Some people had evacuees; empty houses were full of soldiers.
  • take: The Hinckley district was going to take 5,760 evacuees.
  • return: Over Christmas millions of evacuees returned to their homes and were reunited with members of the family who had stayed behind.

Preposition: in

  • village: There were two classrooms of evacuees in the village, wisely well separated.

Adjective modifier

  • former: Some former evacuees have recorded their memories on tape instead of writing them down.
  • young: Young evacuees enjoyed a New Year's Eve party thrown for them by their local town council last night.
  • more: This problem has been reported in some areas where more evacuees than expected have arrived or the extra deliveries have been delayed.
  • other: We had some other evacuees who stayed at a farm too.
  • fellow: Toni also describes problems for her and her fellow evacuees as they slowly settled into their new lives.
  • Many: Many evacuees who went home this Christmas ( 1939 ) will not be returning to their host families.

Modifies a noun

  • child: At the end of term, the girls give a garden party for the local evacuee children.

Noun used with modifier

  • wartime: A black and white image of two wartime evacuees is also available for media use.
  • child: Canada also saw an influx of 8,000 child evacuees from British cities arriving.
  • hurricane: Agencies, individuals, and corporations are encouraged to post jobs on a free job board for hurricane evacuees.
  • disaster: Chicago Short Term Housing At Chicago Temporary Housing, we offer short-term housing solutions for corporate employees, disaster evacuees, and military personnel.
  • girl: One of the dead was young girl evacuee from London.
  • house: Janson sets him to work on helping with the building of a new colony on the moon to house evacuees.

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