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.
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Promises to wall off the Mexican border, abolish Obamacare, largely eliminate the Department of Education, and exclude Muslims from entering the country either went nowhere or achieved only limited success.
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Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
That event caused severe flooding in Yuba County that took lives and destroyed homes, leading to the agreement that boosted coordination between the dams that wall off the Feather and Yuba rivers.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacramento Bee, 11 Feb. 2025
Researchers have known for decades that proteins headed for places like the nucleus or mitochondria—structures enclosed by membranes and walled off from the rest of the cell—carry short signaling tags that guide them.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Feb. 2025
The population, then at around 211 million, continued to expand, and many who at first worried for the carrying capacity of the planet became preoccupied with walling off the country and keeping the global population at bay.
—Seyward Darby, Longreads, 7 Nov. 2024
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Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
That event caused severe flooding in Yuba County that took lives and destroyed homes, leading to the agreement that boosted coordination between the dams that wall off the Feather and Yuba rivers.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacramento Bee, 11 Feb. 2025
Researchers have known for decades that proteins headed for places like the nucleus or mitochondria—structures enclosed by membranes and walled off from the rest of the cell—carry short signaling tags that guide them.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Feb. 2025
The population, then at around 211 million, continued to expand, and many who at first worried for the carrying capacity of the planet became preoccupied with walling off the country and keeping the global population at bay.
—Seyward Darby, Longreads, 7 Nov. 2024
See All Example Sentences for wall off
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“Wall off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wall%20off. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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