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cordon off

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  1. divide by means of a rope
    The police roped off the area where the crime occurred

How To Use cordon off In A Sentence

  • Roads passing the hotel will be blocked, local people issued with photographic identity cards and a five-mile steel fence with a second barrier inside the grounds will cordon off the hotel itself.
  • A truckload of troops was immediately sent to cordon off the area.
  • Furnishings, he says, come mostly from retail fixture sales; the free-standing countertops that cordon off his kitchen area, for example, once displayed clothing.
  • The bill also grants the army authority to enter buildings without a warrant, cordon off areas, erect barricades and stop vehicles to search them without a warrant.
  • Furnishings, he says, come mostly from retail fixture sales; the free-standing countertops that cordon off his kitchen area, for example, once displayed clothing.
  • We went and had a look - it appeared to be very old, but the safety pin was out so that in the interests of safety we had to cordon off the Square.
  • Two ambulances, a fast response car and three fire engines attended the scene and six police officers helped cordon off the area.
  • He retained a high boundary count, several via controlled edges through a packed slip cordon off Lakmal's outswing but also producing a crunching drive past a vacant cover as Dilshan kept an attacking field. WalesOnline - Home
  • To make such a program work, Congress would need to direct agencies to cordon off a certain number of nonsensitive jobs -- such as mail room, janitorial or maintenance work -- for ex-offenders, he said. From the WSJ Opinion Archives
  • Aeros (Airborne Robotic Oil Spill Recovery System) is a fleet of airplane-deployed robots that cordon off the oil and use centrifuge-like oil/water separators to collect oil for refining.
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