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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In his first term, Trump jettisoned traditional norms around presidents walling off their personal interests and instead retained his business holdings — including a Washington, D.C., hotel where foreign leaders booked rooms. —

David Ingram, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2024 Hockenson’s ability to wall off defenders with his big body means that the Vikings should be able to keep key drives alive in the third and fourth quarters. —

Steve Silverman, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024 Iman, walled off by work, is a largely absent authoritarian; Najmeh nervously acts as a conduit, passing along vague information from husband to children. —

Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2024 To the weekend visitor, our city can seem like a maze of twisting freeways and roads built for cars, walled off to pedestrians. —

L.a. Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for wall off