wall off

phrasal verb

walled off; walling off; walls off
: to separate (something) from the area around it with a wall
The school walled off the playground from the parking lot.

Examples of wall off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Shelton intended the courtyard as a three-season room that can be walled off with removable wooden gates to block views from the streets on either side. Cynthia Billhartz Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024 Patrick said the privacy of the cocoon seat, which is walled off on three sides, was another crowd pleaser. Randy Diamond, Sacramento Bee, 26 Jan. 2024 Help for Black first-time homebuyers, homeowners’ mortgage assistance and property tax relief for neighborhoods walled off by historic redlining are among the slate of reparations bills introduced to undo the legacy of racial inequity in California. Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2024 Shannon leads me back to her office, which is walled off from the bait shop. Robert N. Jenkins, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024 Later in the day, angry protesters could only stand and watch behind police barricades that blocked off the surrounding streets around the park that eventually will be walled off by 160 of the rusty metal cargo boxes. Austin Turner, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2024 Number one, Netflix was the first platform where a comic could put their special on and it wasn’t interrupted or walled off. Okla Jones, Essence, 19 Dec. 2023 From Facebook to Instagram, the company has typically walled off its apps from outside data, so interoperability on Threads is new territory for Meta employees to navigate. Reece Rogers, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2024 Floodwaters completely leveled one cottage and tore almost an entire wall off another. WSJ, 31 Aug. 2023

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“Wall off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wall%20off. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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