Sentence examples for closed off around from inspiring English sources

Roads were closed off around Victoria Park, where the rally started.

Streets were closed off around the building in the aftermath of the shooting and a few hundred metres away on the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir a police car's windscreen was riddled with bullet holes.

Israeli authorities closed off streets around the parliament in anticipation of huge crowds on Sunday.

Enbridge's line 67, just one of the two pipelines the protesters closed off, transports around 890,000 barrels of tar sands oil every day.

The stretch of Sunset Boulevard between Doheny Drive and San Vincente Boulevard was closed off from around 3 to 5 p.m. to accommodate an estimated 700 people spilling out onto the street around the Roxy Theatre.

The police closed off the area around the police station.

Police closed off the area around the museum and ambulances and police vans were at the scene.

As residents and students of the local yeshivas gathered by the police lines that closed off the area around the synagogue, reactions were split between mourning and anger.

Satellite television images showed thick black smoke rising from the blast site as Yemeni security forces and medical teams streamed in and closed off the streets around the sprawling embassy compound, which is in one of the capital's most secure areas.

But as my teen years crept in, I became more closed off and guarded around my family.

The police, who were alerted at 1 23 a.m., closed off streets and sidewalks around the building.