Sentence examples for were sealed off from inspiring English sources

The roads to Islamabad were sealed off with trucks, containers and steel barriers.

In fact, some skylights were sealed off before the museum even opened, Mr. Shapiro said.

For several days, these areas were sealed off to reporters by Yemeni authorities.

Entire neighborhoods were sealed off by concrete blast walls, to protect residents from the sectarian killers who roamed the city.

Firefighters arrived to find the fire roaring in the building, whose windows were sealed off with bricks.

The roads to the commander's home were sealed off by the Shabaab, volunteer militia fighters formed after the uprising.

The streets were sealed off, and there were vans open in the back with buckets of paint.

The Student Center (W20) was without water for most of Sunday because of the break, and all bathrooms in the building were sealed off (right).

Large areas around the centre were sealed off and shops including Wal Mart were evacuated as a bomb squad was brought in.

Later ufologists claimed roads were sealed off and people kept away from the site after the incident on 23 January 1974.

More than 150 men were piled into the dungeon's cells, which were sealed off with iron doors with a small slit known as a "Judas hole".