Sentence examples for off the intersection from inspiring English sources

When they had gathered enough materials, Sawyer and fellow-members of the Housing Committee packed up the furniture and drove it down to the city's Housing Preservation and Development department, on Gold Street, where they used it to block off the intersection, putting the furniture in the middle of the street and chaining themselves to it.

Thus a quadratic equation is solved by reading off the intersection of a standard parabola and a straight line; the same parabola is used for all quadratics, and it is only the scale and the position of the line which vary.

Down below, police are closing off the intersection, halting traffic in anticipation of the stunt.

Around 8 45 p.m., a fire truck arrived to hose off the intersection, washing away the blood.

THE LOCATION Off the intersection of Hollywood and Vine, close enough to the action without having to suffer the din.

After the cops arrived and taped off the intersection and determined that no one at the scene had been hit, the street slowly stirred back to life.

President Obama was heading to NBC studios for "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno". Dozens of officers from the Burbank, Alhambra and Pasadena police departments and the Sheriff's Department were stationed throughout the city to block off the intersections for the president's motorcade.

You get out and come talk to her!" With that, the driver backed out of the intersection and took off down Thompson.

As I pushed the car out of the intersection, lightning was going off all around like flash bulbs.

Robinson said he "ended up dozing off" at the intersection a little after 4am after a "busy day".

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