cordon

Yellow police tape was used to cordon off the gas station.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

Images from the scene showed a police cordon in place on a residential street, with a forensics unit stationed next to a red tent.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

Confronting pictures taken after the fire had been brought under control show many body bags lined up outside the bar, and a large cordon around the area.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

Crowds of onlookers stood near buildings teetering on collapse with police officials doing little to cordon off the area.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

It would seem almost as though there were a cordon drawn round the upper part of these great peaks beyond which no man may go.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

Officers set up cordons on surrounding roads to prevent people from heading to the coast.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

At the scene, several police cordons were deployed at various locations inside and outside the station, according to images published by local media.

From Barron's ● May 28, 2026

Photographs of the scene show cordons in place, with emergency workers hanging sheets of tarp around part of the mall.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

By Monday crowds of people had gathered at the edges of the cordons around the Union Corner site.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026

Nothing less than eight feet will be satisfactory, and for upright cordons a trellis ten to fifteen feet high will be much better.

From Dwarf Fruit Trees Their propagation, pruning, and general management, adapted to the United States and Canada by Waugh, F. A.

The house's drive was cordoned off and bunches of flowers were laid on a hedge outside the house.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

An AFP photographer at the scene saw a heavy police presence with access to the area cordoned off, while a helicopter circled overhead.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

That week, downtown Seattle was cordoned off because protestors had taken over the streets surrounding the convention center, and some activists had broken the windows of a Starbucks nearby.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2026

Jonathan’s lawyers said the footprint is inadmissible because the path was “never cordoned off and therefore contaminated,” making the mark “unsuitable as the subject of forensic-scientific examination.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

A group of friends and family had gathered there to greet us, only now, due to Secret Service protocol, they were cordoned off behind a rope.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Police arrived soon after, urging visitors to disperse as they began cordoning off the street.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

That velvet rope wasn’t cordoning off anything but wishes and dreams.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2023

Police have been investigating the cause of Friday's incident, cordoning off the scene which remained scattered with debris.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2023

People often blame algorithms—the invisible sets of rules that shape online landscapes, from social media to search engines—for cordoning use off into digital “filter bubbles” by feeding us content that reinforces our preexisting world view.

From Scientific American ● May 24, 2023

With police cordoning off the area, he hadn’t been able to get in for days.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2023