Formed a protective line around

Usage examples of cordoned.

There were a half-dozen cars, hanging abandoned in the Air, and thirty or forty pigs jostled together in a large area cordoned off by a loose net.

At one o'clock a power failure on a large scale had blacked out the better part of a square mile of the city -- the square mile cordoned off by troops and police.

You bring the stuff here, load it aboard the helicopter and make a fast take-off for the continent: it was the only way, you knew the entire area would be cordoned off and that there would be no other way to get the stuff out.

The helicopters will be similarly cordoned off and that will also be forbidden territory.

The whole of downtown Chicago had been cordoned off, mostly bombed out, and evacuated.

Parkview, the small private hotel next to the big semi-detached Victorian villa where Karen lived with her parents, was cordoned off with yellow tape as was a considerable stretch of the pavement outside and part of the road itself.

I want all the affected areas cordoned off at once and placed under the very tightest security, and all those who've traveled in those areas must be traced and isolated too.

In front of those an area had been cordoned off and a large number of couches had been set up on a semicircle of elevated platforms for the use of the Twenty-Nine, the Minor-Family princes, and their kin.

Within minutes, the entire square would be overrun by carabinieri and cordoned off.

Last night, Morelli's garage had been cordoned off with crime-scene tape, and men were now carefully moving around inside the tape, gathering evidence, photographing the scene.

Instead, he called out the National Guard and cordoned off the area around Piedmont for a radius of one hundred miles.