Use "cordon" in a sentence

1. The police had to cordon off

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2. Major Barker also took a company of the Special Service Corps to strengthen the cordon round the palace, making escape impossible

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3. A semi-circular cordon would thus entirely encompass the city

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4. During the protracted truce the formation of our lines completely changed, and nightly, the troops closed in, drawing the cordon tighter

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5. Most of the time the SAP Riot Units arrived very early (long before the court open at 9am), and formed a cordon around the court with barbed wire

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6. “I can’t stand a conscience, it seriously bites, wouldn’t you agree?” I asked TJ as I released her, sliding my body backwards to move towards a cordon of some sort

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7. pandemonium taking place beyond the police cordon that held back the thousands of

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8. His intention was to methodically sweep the entire area, a manoeuvre which brought a growing sense of panic to Tress as she was still inside the cordon of men and now her retreat back into the mine entrance was also blocked by the large contingent that searched it

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9. My heart is strengthened to see that we may yet arrange an alliance strong enough to cordon the Stalactite Forces from their ongoing invasions

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10. Special army troops cordon off the 5 square miles around the facility, wearing flame-retardant airtight suits

11. Regular army troops cordon off the cordoned off area

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12. And then, as the horde writhed and coiled upon itself, Amalric's lancers, having cut through a cordon of horsemen encountered in the outer valley, swept around the extremity of the western ridge and smote the host in a steel-tipped wedge, splitting it asunder

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13. As they walked through the station a large police cordon stopped all the traveling supporters and lined them up against a fence and began to search all of the lads

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14. He had very nearly made it to the safety of the cordon at his destination, when a banner waver grabbed his arm

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15. With an easy twist of his arm, he broke away from the protestors grip, was allowed to pass through the cordon, and hurried on

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16. One of those songs was a vegetarian’s lament, Chicken Cordon Blues, about a guy who returns from the health foods store with brown rice, beans and granola – twenty pounds of food

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17. That, however, would rob him of any way to keep control of his surviving men and would allow time to the enemy to bring in reinforcements and do a detailed cordon and search operation to find his men one by one

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18. Nancy next had thirty of her robots cordon off the parade ground of the camp, so that the TEEN TEAM could have space free of people to land

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19. As the soldiers looked at each other, undecided, a fourth truck managed to break through the cordon of armored cars of Ingrid’s MPs and rushed towards the helicopters

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20. ” His statement trailed off as he noticed a journalist climbing over the police cordon at the corner of the property

21. As a result, that Chinese invasion force, now down to maybe 100,000 men, is advancing only slowly and is lacking in everything… This map behind me shows the line of maximum advance of the Chinese troops inside the Vietnamese territory, as of midnight last night… The Chinese have up to now seized Mong Cai, Hai Ninh, Dong Dang, Cao Bang and Lao Cai, but are still over seventy miles from Hanoi at their deepest penetration point in the Northeast, while they are still over 200 miles away in the Northwest… Their losses from repeated air attacks by our planes have been very severe and those Chinese soldiers are short of both food and ammunition, on top of having only light weapons… On our side, the 1st Marine Brigade has deployed around Hanoi with its tanks and artillery guns to reinforce the French protective cordon around the city… To date, only our planes and helicopters have made contact with the enemy, which our soldiers are ready to greet firmly

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22. He ordered an immediate ten-city block cordon around the bomb site, with no one except paramedics, police and the injured getting in or out

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23. He called Ruddy Montana, and asked him to send his best 100 agents out into the field immediately to begin canvassing every house within the cordon, starting with the houses closest to the bomb site

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24. By the time that their car returned to Red Square and stopped in front of the Nikolskaya Tower, soldiers and military vehicles were arriving to form a cordon around the northern walls of the Kremlin and stop passersby from approaching, while ambulances and fire trucks rushed in with sirens blarring

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25. Nikita, accompanied by his bodyguard and brandishing his Praesidium pass, made his way through the cordon of soldiers and entered the Kremlin

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26. I was now maybe fifty yards away, but she would reach the police cordon in another ten seconds or so

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27. brow of the hill in a protective cordon

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28. “Even with the cordon in place, I can still think of a dozen ways to kill you here

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29. Most people obeyed the instructions of the soldiers and stayed behind the cordon

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30. Where there is a risk at places of work cordon off the area from unauthorized

31. Inside the cordon of barriers plush sedans belonging to the councillors and official government limousines were lined up like the pit start for a race

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32. A few of the local residents gathered outside Roger’s house, and stood behind the police cordon stretching their necks every now and then to peer into Roger’s front drive

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33. The church of the Annunciation was already crowded, despite a cordon of security that tried to screen out idlers and parasitical spectators

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34. other side of the street, separated from Octavia by a cordon

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35. A floating cordon of blue lit lines had materialized beneath her

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36. Many of them carried large, clear plastic shields, which they held in front of their bodies as they formed a cordon around the crowd

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37. Chaim Levi, the Israeli special forces operative who captained the stolen sailing vessel used to transport the bomb past a Coast Guard cordon

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38. Therein that small clearing I was completely surrounded by a coiling cordon

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39. The captain’s unit was doing cordon and search operations, where they would take an entire block and search it

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40. The captain’s unit was doing cordon and search operations, where they would take an entire block and search it

41. At 3:30 officials from the International Olympic Committee, draped in gold cords and wearing tall silk top hats and coats with long tails, walked out onto the Maifeld and formed a double cordon

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42. Then he strode through the cordon of officials and began to pass the athletes, separated from them by a rope line

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43. Wearing everyday trousers and their crew sweaters with big Ws on the front, they made their way through a police cordon and into the hotel’s ornate lobby, where the scents of leather and malt whisky mingled with gales of laughter, the clinking of glasses, and the tinkling of soft, slow piano music

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44. My enemies had located me, and the next thing would be a cordon round me

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45. I had a notion that the cordon was still

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46. Instead of identifying escape routes from the area and trying to cordon it off, nothing much seems to have happened

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47. There’s been a serious leak – you’ve grasped that much, haven’t you? Otherwise this wouldn’t have happened,” he said, pointing at the prone body inside the cordon

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48. So, yes, he understood the need for a strong security cordon, but if they were going to be “inconspicuous,” the guards needed to be a bit less obvious

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49. During the meat course, Felicia explained to him in a confidential tone that her cook had trained at the Cordon Bleu, and was on loan to the Hamilton-Sweeneys

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50. Earlier, Mercer had watched them try to cordon off that shadowed grocery up on Fourteenth Street

51. Shouldn’t we put a cordon round to prevent the rest from running away?’

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52. Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte continued to burn, forming, one in the west, the other in the east, two great flames which were joined by the cordon of bivouac fires of the English, like a necklace of rubies with two carbuncles at the extremities, as they extended in an immense semicircle over the hills along the horizon

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53. One day, a haughty cook, a cordon bleu, of the lofty race of porters, presented herself

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54. It was the middle-watch; a fair moonlight; the seamen were standing in a cordon, extending from one of the fresh-water butts in the waist, to the scuttle-butt near the taffrail

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55. It was in the midst of this repose, that Archy, one of the cordon, whose post was near the after-hatches, whispered to his neighbor, a Cholo, the words above

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56. Probably the most accurate version was that at first all the available police formed a cordon round the crowd, and a messenger was sent for Lembke, a police superintendent, who dashed off in the carriage belonging to the head of the police on the way to Skvoreshniki, knowing that Lembke had gone there in his carriage half an hour before

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57. But no sooner did he see the resolute and orderly ranks of "the rioters," the cordon of police, the helpless (and perhaps purposely helpless) chief of police, and the general expectation of which he was the object, than all the blood rushed to his heart

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58. He told how one morning he had killed two deer, and about his 'little soul' who used to run to him at the cordon at night

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59. 'I have brought the chikhir I promised you when we were at the cordon

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60. He heard Russian being spoken, and also heard the rapid smooth flow of the Terek, and a few steps farther in front of him saw the brown moving surface of the river, with the dim-coloured wet sand of its banks and shallows, the distant steppe, the cordon watch-tower outlined above the water, a saddled and hobbled horse among the brambles, and then the mountains opening out before him

61. He himself had to return to the cordon that same night

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62. Lukashka went back alone to the cordon pondering over Olenin's action

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63. Accompanied by Vanyusha he rode back to the cordon without any accident several hours in advance of the rest of the company

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64. Shouldn’t we put a cordon round to prevent the rest from running away?”

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