How to Use buffer zone in a Sentence

buffer zone

noun
  • There must be a 500-foot buffer zone between the river and the new buildings.
  • But there are hard limits on how big this buffer zone can get.
    David Axe, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The bike route will have a three-foot buffer zone and will be built adjacent to the curb.
    Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2021
  • There was a buffer zone where French soldiers were and then the north was held by rebel groups.
    Jay Harris, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • As for humans, our best strategy is to leave a wide buffer zone.
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2011
  • Camden said the buffer zone needs to go away sooner rather than later.
    Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2018
  • Police have set up a buffer zone to keep them from being too close to the courthouse.
    Eric Levenson, CNN, 27 June 2024
  • Their pitch centered around the buffer zone as a health and safety measure.
    Darcy Costello, The Courier-Journal, 21 May 2021
  • Clear all vegetation from a five-foot buffer zone around the house.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 17 Jan. 2025
  • So, awareness of the buffer zone has always had an impact on ball-strike calls.
    Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • Police have again set up a buffer zone to keep the crowds from being too close to the courthouse.
    Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Once homes are razed, the land is preserved as open space, a buffer zone for nuisance flooding.
    New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
  • There is also a button to adjust the buffer zone between you and the car ahead.
    Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 11 Feb. 2021
  • The buffer zone at the bike lanes will be marked by white candlestick delineators.
    oregonlive, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The groups spent hours lobbing chants and insults at one another from across the buffer zone.
    The Courier-Journal, 9 July 2018
  • Thirty years ago, Russia had a buffer zone of satellite states to its west.
    Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2021
  • About 370 acres of trees were felled to create a buffer zone between the fire and city.
    Vjosa Isai, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2023
  • But the protect-by-pain line is much lower, leaving a large buffer zone between them.
    Cathryn Jakobson Ramin, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2019
  • The buffer zone separating the lanes was also about two miles wide.
    Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 15 July 2026
  • Bask in that 2,000-mile buffer zone and get back into the groove of your life for a while.
    Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Jan. 2023
  • There’s also a 1,000-foot no camping buffer zone around the site.
    Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2023
  • Toward the end of our walk, we were given seedlings to plant as part of a reforestation project in the buffer zone.
    Gina Decaprio Vercesi, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2021
  • The buffer zone between the school and the incoming oil project is the students’ soccer field and a drainage ditch.
    Julie Turkewitz, New York Times, 31 May 2018
  • This force, still in place today, maintains a buffer zone along the cease-fire lines in the Golan Heights.
    Jonathan Lincoln, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Outside of the buffer zone, the Golan Heights still bears traces of its violent past.
    Anna Fletcher, CNN, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Russia and Turkey reached an agreement last week for a buffer zone and cease fire around Idlib.
    Fox News, 24 Sep. 2018
  • It was based on a Colorado buffer zone law that has been upheld by the Supreme Court.
    Robert Barnes and Ann E. Marimow, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Landscaping, in the form of a tree buffer zone, will stand between the playground and pool area, and nearby homes.
    cleveland, 11 Jan. 2022
  • At the same time, Egypt is building a new walled buffer zone more than 2 miles wide on Gaza border.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The Sochi agreement, as it is known, called for a buffer zone up to 25km deep between rebels and the regime.
    The Economist, 6 June 2019

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