What is "cordoning off"

Usage examples of "cordoning off".

Finally, the police left, cordoning off the house to keep away the curious, who had assembled en masse.

Yellow tape had been strung from pine trees, cordoning off the perimeter.

If we hurry, we can damned near be in Washington before Roth starts cordoning off Manhattan.

He and Slava got the six Izmits off the truck and into the hangar, where they spent the rest of the day cleaning and cordoning off the arena space.

Someone, or lots of someones, what with the army cordoning off streets and setting up border posts and everything.

Elsewhere, Destroids and Hovertanks patrolled the streets, continuing their search-and-sweep and cordoning off restricted areas, including the Royal Hall's vast circular plaza.

The riots, as Khoumnos had predicted, died away after the Romans and Halogai succeeded in cordoning off the Namdaleni who were their focus.

The police were cordoning off the whole building with yellow tape.

A moment later, a string of torches ignited above the black, moonlit water, their flames reflected in a series of mirrors arranged around the torches, which formed a hexagonal pat- tern, cordoning off an open stretch of water, about seventy meters across, in the direct center of the dark lake.

A moment later, a string of torches ignited above the black, moonlit water, their flames reflected in a series of mirrors arranged around the torches, which formed a hexagonal pattern, cordoning off an open stretch of water, about seventy meters across, in the direct center of the dark lake.

And now Farl and his blue-skinned troopers were cordoning off sections, creating choke points for crowd control, and making things three times as bad.

By the time Rafael's officers had restored some semblance of order, disarming the defeated Ambervale soldiers and cordoning off areas for prisoners, the light had seeped from the sky.

All about the great apron of Tien Men K'ou spaceport, guards were busy cordoning off ships and clearing their crews from the field.