How to Use rope off in a Sentence

rope off

phrasal verb
Definition of rope offnext
  • The area will be roped off, but there won’t be a stage.
    — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • At its beach, the city has roped off an area where people can swim.
    — Taylor Ardrey, USA TODAY, 8 July 2024
  • Unlike at most venues, the big spenders here aren’t roped off along the periphery.
    — Jay Cheshes, Robb Report, 9 Dec. 2023
  • The upper levels of the atrium, once filled with high-end retail, were roped off.
    — Curbed, 2 Oct. 2023
  • So the, the Cleveland Heights mailboxes were roped off for a couple of years because of this.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The swim zone is an apparent reference to an area in front of the beach roped off for swimming.
    — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
  • Across the street, the entrance to streetwear store Bait is roped off like a club to keep people from absconding with $1,000 sneakers.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
  • He was put on a stretcher to be lowered by ropes off the side of the ship, with Eberlein climbing down a rope ladder to join him.
    — Bram Sable-Smith, CBS News, 24 May 2024
  • Read Next World Whale was entangled in rope off Australia for days.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 26 June 2024
  • Portions of the beach area have been roped off and closed by the Hawai'i Marine Animal Response as the area will be a seal nursery.
    — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Police roped off the entire block, as frantic relatives showed up at the scene.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 26 June 2023
  • The parking lot was also roped off to keep anyone from entering, the release said.
    — Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Like Sanders, Gaither roped off a plum section of the stadium for dignitaries; for Gaither, this meant white dignitaries.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The tech news website 404 Media found entire sections of slot machines at MGM casinos roped off.
    — Kevin Collier, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The team laid a six-foot-square section of wire fencing over the site and moved the stakes inward to pin its corners, roping off that tighter perimeter with brightly colored tape.
    — Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 29 June 2023
  • On the inside, the station remains busy with rail travelers, though the wing including the shuttered Java Moon Café was roped off.
    — Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 11 July 2024
  • Birmingham police roped off the apartment with crime scene tape and flooded the small building’s property.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Video from the aftermath, shared by The Associated Press, showed police had roped off the block where the shooting occurred while dozens and dozens of officers patrolled the scene.
    — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 13 June 2023
  • The area was secured and roped off with crime scene tape as the medical examiners arrived, Fox 6 reported.
    — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The deeper caves are now roped off to the public, and the above-ground visitor center—a building shaped like a bat—is largely dedicated to bat education.
    — Corey Buhay, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2024
  • Throughout the morning, police tape roped off the lot next to 189 Essex St. as people milled around, often teary eyed, sitting quietly and hugging each other.
    — Sean Cotter, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Ostrow eventually roped off a section where spectators who weren’t also bathhouse clientele could watch the show fully clothed.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Most members of the press are kept roped off from the guests, who ignore their shouted questions, but secretly love being photographed walking the paths around the resort, confabbing with other masters of industry.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 8 June 2023
  • The press was roped off until every player took their seat, and when the availability began, TV reporters and cameramen sprinted toward players for good positioning.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 17 July 2024
  • Then, after a major rainstorm downed trees and some wires in a San Francisco neighborhood, an autonomous vehicle drove through the caution tape roping off the scene and entangled itself in the wires, according to a report written in March 2023.
    — Trisha Thadani, Washington Post, 1 July 2023

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