Sentence examples for cordon from inspiring English sources

Several past and present England internationals – an entire slip cordon – followed suit.

Johnston, who saw the crash site from outside the police cordon soon after first light on Saturday, explained: "I have heard one of the main suspicions was that the main transmission gearbox might have shattered.

A particularly tasty dish – a cordon bleu irony, an irony worthy of a rating from Michelin – is produced by the important contest to be the next leader of the scunnered Scottish Labour party.

Fourteen years elapse before it is revealed that Babette is a cordon bleu cook – a fact that leads to her cooking the sisters and their guests a sumptuous once-in-a-lifetime meal, a cathartic event for her, her employers and the community, leaving the diners questioning their lifelong denial of mortal pleasures.

At Sheffield the train doors were kept locked until the police and security men had all got off and formed a mass cordon blocking the exit from the platform.

About 500 protesters, most of them African-American, lined up on the other side of the road to the entrance of the prison which was barricaded by a cordon of Swat police dressed in full riot gear and brandishing tear gas rifles.

Loyalist demonstrators broke through a security cordon on Monday night and tried to enter the council chamber as they threw golf balls and bottles.

A police cordon was placed around the court buildings.

Police responded with pepper spray when a group of marchers tried to break through their cordon.

The Garda Síochána will have to create a huge cordon sanitaire along one of the main arterial northern arterial routes into the city centre.

At one stage, at least four police vans and about 10 officers were seen between Sardis Road and Lanelay Crescent as well as a cordon around a block of flats.