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cordoned off

vb. (en-pastcordon off)

Usage examples of "cordoned off".

There were a half-dozen cars, hanging abandoned in the Air, and thirty or forty pigs jostled together in a large area cordoned off by a loose net.

You bring the stuff here, load it aboard the helicopter and make a fast take-off for the continent: it was the only way, you knew the entire area would be cordoned off and that there would be no other way to get the stuff out.

In front of those an area had been cordoned off and a large number of couches had been set up on a semicircle of elevated platforms for the use of the Twenty-Nine, the Minor-Family princes, and their kin.

The city was split into fortified areas, cordoned off with barbed wire, and guarded by Tommies entrenched behind massed guns.

The city had been abandoned, condemned, and cordoned off for months, and it wouldn't have surprised him to know that not even a leftover drunk walked those streets.

We cordoned off the area and sent out for backup and NCIS support.

The area within the energy screen had been cordoned off by five concentric rings of troops.

The area in front of the platform was cordoned off, Nancy noticed.

All at once he knows how Dale felt when Jack told him that the phone at the 7-Eleven had to be cordoned off.

Scowling Luftwaffe guards and wooden street barriers cordoned off the disaster.

No photographs were taken, no press was here at the time, and those who've arrived since have been cordoned off several hundred yards away by the police.