Sentence examples for closed off as a from inspiring English sources

For two hours the center of Washington was closed off as a police bomb squad examined the van, first breaking off the lock and then spraying water from a cannon onto a suitcase and a briefcase inside.

She is not closed off as a human being, she is open to everything around her.

In most of these cases one arm of the cross would have been closed off as a laird's aisle, meaning that they were in effect "T -plan churches.

The Wildlife Conservation Park is closed off as a unit of wildlife conservation.

Outside Najaf, major roads were closed off as the military enforced a blockade in response to a suicide car bombing on Saturday that killed four American soldiers.

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Close observers say their relationship is a joshy, schoolboy/schoolgirl flirtatious affair, but their marriage remained a strictly private matter as closed off as the inner recesses of Hague's own self.

Close observers say their relationship is joshy, schoolboy/ schoolgirl flirtatious, but their marriage remains a rigidly private matter, as closed off as the inner recesses of HagueÕs own self.

One day, late in his career, I was in the clubhouse with him, and he was as closed off as ever, and I finally said, 'You've never said a kind or personal word to me in the years I've known you.' I walked away, and he chased me all the way across the room to ask what I meant.

This account of North Korean life focusses on the porous nature of the regime's information infrastructure, showing a country that isn't quite as closed off as we assume.

The neighborhood surrounding the apartment building was closed off, as was St. Joseph's emergency room.