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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The perimeter of the National Constitution Center was walled off by 6-foot metal fences and surrounded by police. —

Mike D'onofrio, Axios, 11 Sep. 2024 The receiving area is walled off from a design and storage area (a second storage space is off-site, as are the production facilities, which are based downtown). —

Rose Apodaca Jones, WWD, 16 Aug. 2024 The kind of vulnerable connection the duo shares ought to be terrifying for people who seem most comfortable walled off from others, and themselves. —

Siddhant Adlakha, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2024 Fonfara emphasized that concentrated poverty differs from other forms of poverty by walling off access to educational and career opportunities that might be available to youth without economic resources who grow up in wealthier towns. —

Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 6 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for wall off