Sentence examples for town off from inspiring English sources

And now the wall threatens to cut the town off from 80percentnt of its agricultural land and 19 of its wells.

"The Starry Night," by contrast, is painted from up high, the town off in the distance and possibly observed from the artist's window at the asylum.

When the last boat left, the ice locked them in for seven months, cutting the town off from the world except for one route: a dog-sled trail to the interior.

Then there is that slippery aesthetic sense, the judgment of whether the disfigurement of cutting a river town off from its original reason for being is worth the peace of mind promised by a wall.

"Under the Dome," which was published in 2009 by Simon & Schuster (also owned by CBS), is the story of a small New England town that is suddenly threatened with extinction when an enormous, transparent, but indestructible, dome descends and seals the town off from the rest of civilization.

People here feel more exercised about issues that Brussels can do little about, such as the border with Ukraine, which cuts the town off from its eastern neighbour and makes trade and movement between the two countries more complicated than it was in the past.

Locals have declared their town off-limits to travellers, even though this stretch of the Amazon river is playing host to more visitors than ever.

"In effect, a couple of towns, by doing this, may have made the town off-limits, but I've never heard of any municipalities saying it outright," said Deborah M. Kole, staff attorney for the New Jersey State League of Municipalities.

At the same time, ideas that were mainly theoretical 25 years ago – solar and wind technology, community energy projects that could take whole towns off-grid – have become demonstrably workable.

We were producing an engagement party for 500 people out of town -- "off site," as we say.

"The black part of town was off in the margins".