Sentence examples for were marked off from inspiring English sources

Areas were marked off in the sand and single-wall handball was born".

Over the years all sorts of random visitors – friends, rellos, tradies – were marked off on the side of that bookcase.

These maps were color-coded, and neighborhoods that were considered the least desirable were marked off with a red boundary line.

All around Washington this weekend, as black motorcades sped about town and fancy hotels were marked off with the tell-tale police barricades, a sure sign a world leader was in residence, was evidence of Mr. Obama's challenge.

The dates were marked off with large black X's that moved inexorably toward the day this week when she would board the plane and return to Moscow and her job in the library.

In a country where milk, cigarettes, coffee and pork chops were marked off on a ration card -- with only so much allotted to each family and only so much in the store (so that my grandmother awoke before dawn to go stand in line with her card) -- the fruit trees offered rare abundance.

The straightaways are marked off only by painted lines.

Such a line was marked off at intervals by knots tied in the rope.

The 14th digit on a cubit stick was marked off into 16 equal parts.

Larger sections are marked off with little reefs of question marks.

The creamy wall surface of the Pazzi Chapel is marked off in geometric patterns by dark gray stone.