Sentence examples for cordon to from inspiring English sources

The soldiers had formed a cordon to hold them back.

Some people gathered outside the cordon to await news of missing relatives.

In the disorder, police erected a cordon to hold back the anti-NF demonstration.

Several were thrown to the ground as they broke through a security cordon to reach him.

A Colombian woman was desperately trying to get through the cordon to her mother, who was stuck in her apartment.

"Make way for the originals!" the marshals shouted, forming a cordon to hold back the other marchers and the press.

Riot police swooped at around 10am, forming cordons to seal off the building from the surrounding streets.

Many workers, some of them illegal immigrants, did not want to pass police cordons to reach jobs in garment and other industries, Chinatown newspapers have reported.

The police had set up cordons to separate the marchers from Mr. Mugabe's supporters, but the latter managed to get through, Mr. Kagoro said.

In London, lightly armed police officers were ever-present, forming face-to-face cordons to contain the crowd in a specific area.

I knew that some activists were planning to try to break the police cordons to get closer to the Kremlin and that others were planning to set up tents in the square to wait for the inauguration the next day.