VERB
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isolate or separate
She was shut off from the friends -
block off the passage through
We shut off the valve -
stem the flow of
shut off the gas when you leave for a vacation
How To Use close off In A Sentence
- What we should not do is suppress dissent, close off argument and condemn those who question the standard line as heretics.
- These days, the police are gone, the coca is plentiful and locals close off roads for multiday block parties—not rumbles with law enforcement. Cocaine: The New Front Lines
- A fourth season hasn't aired yet in Britain, and the final episodes of this season close off the characters quite nicely.
- My current plan is, once Ellen has her baby, I'll close off the jumper somehow, stuff it, and make it into a little crotcheted Cthuluish toy. Ana-ng Diary Entry
- It examines an ambitious new infrastructure plan to close off Sydney's ocean outfalls and reclaim the water from the smallest room in the house.
- Modified ossicles called lappets that border the ambulacral groove function to close off the groove and prevent damage to the tube feet.
- As the opening speech noted, the graduation ceremony is a very proper way to close off your career at Oxford.
- It went into examinership in August after its British business went into liquidation and it was forced to close offices worldwide.
- In close off Byron there were flathead and some fit looking squire, while out wider the cobia and mackerel and yellowfin tuna were the big drawcards.
- Ministers and mandarins worry that scientific advice will close off politically palatable options. Times, Sunday Times