Sentence examples for close him off from inspiring English sources

"The closer you can be to him, the closer you can close him off in the corner and be physical on him, it helps your chances of not letting him make a good play through you," Staal said of Ovechkin.

"When she's with another actor, she's not closing him off so she can listen to what's going on inside herself.

Murray closed him down, barged him off the ball and finished coolly.

Would that kind of betrayal force him to close himself off completely to avoid getting hurt further, or do you think there's hope for him and Emma down the road?

Don't close yourself off to him entirely.

We were very close to taking him off, if I'm being honest.

"He wasn't doing what the manager asked of him and he was close to taking him off again!" "But thankfully he never did.

None of Trump's rivals came close to knocking him off, despite — or perhaps because of — his position at the center of one of the most polarizing campaign weeks in recent history.

After a few seconds, he said aloud, almost rhetorically, "Who else is there?" "There's Bush," I suggested, half expecting him to close off the discussion.

The wedding, which saw him (illegally) close off a residential street to accommodate his cavalcade, not to mention a film crew and marching band, propelled him to national attention in August.

The former Senator said he knew that Al loved his newspaper work, but it would be a shame for him to close off his options, to lose the chance to do something else later.