Sentence examples for were shut off for from inspiring English sources

Phones were shut off, for the most part, and neither a DVD player nor a computer was turned on.

By Sunday afternoon, the military had cleared most of the routes, which were shut off for five days, the police said, but roadblocks remained in place near Achacachi.

Security was noticeably less oppressive than it has been for much of the trip and Cubans will have seen much more of the US president here than in the cleansed streets of central Havana that were shut off for much of the rest of the visit.

"Non-essential lights" on massive buildings were shut off for an hour all over the world as part of the event put on by the World Wildlife Fund.

Nearly seven miles of Manhattan streets, from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park at East 72nd Street in Manhattan — including a large stretch of Park Avenue — were shut off to car traffic for six hours on Saturday.

To preserve Flannery's modesty, the series' monitors were shut off and the memory card for the digital camera was removed.

Just like that, five hours of counting ended, congratulatory speeches were made, cameras were shut off and folks, bleary-eyed headed for home.

The property was abandoned after the electricity was shut off for nonpayment.

Electric power was shut off for parts of the surrounding neighborhood.

Power to the building had been shut off for a renovation project.

The next day, Tuesday, Baquet had jury duty, and his phone was shut off for most of the day.