Sentence examples for cordon of from inspiring English sources

Undergrowth rustles outside the protective cordon of carefully placed tents.

The thinnest cordon of marines now held the airport.

Beyoncé Knowles arrived two hours late and spent the evening behind a cordon of bodyguards.

Fire engines advanced to tackle the blazes behind a tight cordon of riot police.

A cordon of riot police have sealed off the building, where over 40 people reportedly died.

A strong cordon of policemen saved him from the delirious mob.

The cordon of Israeli officers protecting the festivities bothered no one inside.

A cordon of buses sealed off the tollbooth entrance to the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.

Other menus were so flowery: a cordon of this, an envelope of that.

A cordon of police formed a barrier there, and a woman struggled with a policewoman, who knocked her down.

Then I noticed how exhausted the elephants looked as their great limbs lumbered past a cordon of police cars.