Sentence examples for blocked them off from inspiring English sources

People who can't pick the oranges from their own trees because the Israeli military have blocked them off.

After the long day of dealing with students' emotional responses, we just needed the comfort of our home, so we tried to cross the street before the crowds blocked them off.

"She's screaming that people were blocking them off".

"He was so fast that he would get around players and never block them off," Callahan said.

The ascorbic acid in NatureSeal searches out and bonds to the loose phenols, blocking them off from the polyphenol oxidase enzyme and interrupting the browning reaction.

The governor of Rio de Janeiro has revoked a plan approved by the state legislature to build a six-and-a-half-foot wall along some main thoroughfares in Rio to block them off from squatter slums.

The police and the illegal dirt bike riders engage in a slow battle of attrition every summer as the dirt bikers ride and the police, who are not allowed to chase them, try to block them off or catch them through helicopter surveillance.

In other words, the coach displayed a timid mindset not from the moment of Pepe's dismissal but from the first whistle: a reflection of his belief that the only way to defeat Pep Guardiola's ball-hoggers was to block them off and hope to get lucky on the break.

For hover, a series of "transition doors" were opened into the nozzles, blocking them off and re-directing the flow downward under the aircraft.

Dams irrevocably change the course and character of rivers, rerouting them or blocking them off, and soil erosion from deforestation for dam construction inundates waterways.

The protesters began shouting "Strike, occupy and resist" over the bailiff, but he carried on in his relentless quest to kill the buzz, screaming, "You will be arrested for trespassing!" That's when metal bridges were hoisted over the stream and anyone wearing a fluorescent jacket started to make their way across, manhandling protesters who were trying to block them off. .