(1) Lots of people closed off the street yesterday when I went home.

(2) Large areas of the city have been closed off by barricades set up by the demonstrators.

(3) Police quickly closed off the area.

(4) The street was closed off for too many cars.

(5) The workmen closed off the street for repairs.

(6) We don't want to close off any options.

(7) The roads into the docks were closed off by iron gates.

(8) One lane of the road was closed off by traffic cones.

(9) The police have shut/closed off all streets leading to the city.

(10) Farms in the area have been closed off in an attempt to contain the disease.

(11) All the streets have been closed off by the police.

(12) She repainted the downstairs rooms and closed off the second floor.

(13) Police closed off about 12 blocks of a major San Francisco thoroughfare for today's march.

(14) Even the station quays were air-conditioned, closed off from the tunnels by special automatic doors so that no energy was wasted.

(15) The roads into the docks were closed off by solid gates, rusty barbed wire, padlocked chains.

(16) Most of the building is closed off, under repair, with ropes cordoning off huge sections.

(17) Indeed, it reinforces the statusquo, closes off discussion and analysis, and restricts rather than expands popular consciousness.

(18) He said law enforcement authorities had closed off a five-mile area around the crash site.

(19) Obon is for closing off unfinished business, for restoring bonds, for healing and remembering.

(20) After adopting these methods the closing off ratio of coil is reduced greatly and great benefit is obtained.

(21) Ecological rehabilitation, somewhat different than the traditional closing off the afforested hills, is an essential way for soil ...

(22) Each bandha is a lock, meaning a closing off of part of the interior body.

(23) Japan's benchmark index, the Nikkei, dropped 166 points, closing off nearly 1.9 percent. Analysts say the yen's rise against the euro also influenced selling in Tokyo.

(24) Within a dozen yards, I came to a set of iron gates closing off the steps east of the high altar.

(25) And as the gap increases, poor peasants are becoming marginalized in higher education, closing off one of their best opportunities for advancement.

(26) Closing yourself off from criticism has the effect of closing off all communication.

(27) Experts believe the North's military is unlikely to attack, but may be contemplating a restriction in North-South contact by closing off border access points which it controls.

(28) The air clears a bit once you've deplaned, but the horizon still contracts, pollution closing off the New Delhi sky like a dome.

(29) In the new dispensation, political control of a discipline is an adequate basis for closing off critical debate.

(30) This flexibility means that you can risk taking "unknown" subjects such as philosophy or sociology without the fear of closing off options in second or third year.

(31) She squeezed the clamp shut, closing off the vessels in the pedicle.

(32) But Sunday evening I realized that my muscle was reacting and closing off the calf.

(33) He the dog Cairo and four SEALs were responsible for closing off the perimeter of the house while James and six other SEALs—the contingent that was supposed to have dropped onto the roof—moved inside.

(34) And it will include closing off the valves on that new containment cap so that they can take solid readings of the pressure inside of that containment cap and inside that well.

(35) Closing off any document is difficult, since reviewers often come up with new ideas every time they read the document.