How to Use rope off in a Sentence

rope off

verb

• The depth varies — one end is a kiddie splash pool while part of the middle is roped off for a diving board.
  — Npr Staff, NPR, 18 Dec. 2025
• The problem area has been cleared and roped off with yellow caution tape, and there is a visible dip in the floor.
  — Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2026
• On June 11, Cincinnati Parks staff roped off the area the researchers sampled.
  — Gillian Stawiszynski, Cincinnati Enquirer, 11 Sep. 2025
• National Park Service workers were seen later roping off the area.
  — Nicholas Kerr, ABC News, 11 June 2026
• These days, though, the surrounding area is roped off in fear that debris is increasingly likely to fall, owing to the tower’s growing slant.
  — Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026
• Eventually, airport crews roped off the area with yellow caution tape and forced passengers to take alternate paths around the airport.
  — Colson Thayer, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
• After the shooting, officers roped off the area and diverted traffic to investigate.
  — Kassia Bonesteel, CBS News, 1 June 2026
• Mind you, that was also by design — the west side of the stadium was roped off entirely, so that 50% of capacity was scrunched into one half of the building.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 12 Apr. 2026
• There were at least two blocks roped off with crime scene tape in front of the Antiques & Design Mall nearby Miami Shores village lines.
  — Kairi Lowery, Miami Herald, 21 June 2026
• Nothing was precious or roped off, and the grand living room, which opened through enormous glass doors onto the garden and pool, became the place both families naturally drifted to every evening.
  — Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 May 2026
• Areas are roped off and dotted with signs warning of land mines, a hazard Cambodians know well after decades of civil war that ended in the late 1990.
  — ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026
• Theater teacher Kristen Martin had to rope off the back half of the auditorium in order to push the audience toward the stage for a play the students did in the fall.
  — Melanie Asmar, Denver Post, 20 Mar. 2026
• During the season from March to October, the shoreline is pockmarked with turtle nests that are roped off with pink tape to keep beachgoers from unknowingly trampling them.
  — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 25 Dec. 2025
• During the season from March to October, the shoreline is pockmarked with turtle nests that are roped off with pink tape to keep beachgoers from unknowingly trampling them.
  — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 17 June 2026
• The terrible action in private-asset managers as a few credit funds undergo stress is mostly being roped off as an isolated problem area without much impact on the core banking sector, for now.
  — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 23 Feb. 2026
• First lady Lou Hoover had part of the South Lawn roped off for folks dancing, while first lady Pat Nixon introduced the traditional egg roll races.
  — Sydney Topf, The Washington Examiner, 6 Feb. 2026
• Officers had roped off a McDonald’s in the area and were investigating inside Saturday afternoon.
  — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
• National Park Service workers were seen roping off the area Thursday afternoon, and National Guard members appeared to be directing the public away from the grass.
  — Nicholas Kerr, ABC News, 11 June 2026
• Much of Sixth Avenue between G and F streets had been roped off with caution tape, and several police SUVs were also parked on Fifth Avenue.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
• Fearing this was a possible terror attack, everyone was ordered out of Chabad headquarters and the area was roped off so the NYPD Bomb Squad could check to see if the car had any explosives.
  — Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2026
• Both The Outpost and Thornton Plaza were roped off by authorities in the wake of the shooting, but police were focused on the front exterior of Monkey Space on Sunday morning, a building riddled with bullet holes.
  — Kathleen Quinn, Sacbee.com, 1 Dec. 2025
• The block around Fernando Mendoza’s home in Coral Gables, Florida was roped off by early afternoon on Thursday and the roast pig – a lechon asado to Cubans like the Mendozas – was in the Caja China all day.
  — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026