Sentence examples for cordon the from inspiring English sources

"They didn't cordon the track off from the gorge," he said.

As a result, the First Brigade Combat Team elected to cordon the area and begin an intensive search.

For an organisation that prefers to cordon the press a mile from its meetings, whose press relations policy to date has been to arrest, harass and search journalists, this was an astonishing turnaround.

Alex may be proud of his talents, but Eliot is careful not to specify the resulting dish; just as Euripides was obliged, by the dictates of his era, to cordon the slaughter of Medea's children offstage, so any modern audience would recoil in outrage if it was forced to witness the actual coddling of an egg.

Where a tired bowler may have a sip of water and ponder about dinner resting up at fine-leg, or a batsman chat with his fellow fielder in the slips cordon, the captain is forever wondering where his next wicket will come from.

In its attempt to cordon the throng of illegal immigrant phantom voters, voter ID laws sacrifice the poor, the elderly, the young, and many minorities as collateral damage.

The firefighters cordoned the intersection and called Con Edison.

"All these vehicles rushed up, cordoned the site so no outsider could come.

But we cleared the first floor, cordoned the ground floor off, and opened the doors.

"Then came the velvet ropes," he said, "cordoning the bell off".

Ranger Dan Clifton told ABC his team had cordoned the area off and set up warning signs to alert beachgoers.