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close off

VERB
  1. isolate or separate
    She was shut off from the friends
  2. block off the passage through
    We shut off the valve
  3. 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
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