How to Use buffer zone in a Sentence

buffer zone

noun
  • There must be a 500-foot buffer zone between the river and the new buildings.
  • Some Israeli officials have voiced support for emptying the area of Palestinians as a way to form a buffer zone.
    Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Bask in that 2,000-mile buffer zone and get back into the groove of your life for a while.
    Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The suit was filed in June and claims the buffer zone would infringe on the group's First Amendment rights.
    Mary Ramsey, The Courier-Journal, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The bike route will have a three-foot buffer zone and will be built adjacent to the curb.
    Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2021
  • About 370 acres of trees were felled to create a buffer zone between the fire and city.
    Vjosa Isai, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The Sochi agreement, as it is known, called for a buffer zone up to 25km deep between rebels and the regime.
    The Economist, 6 June 2019
  • This force, still in place today, maintains a buffer zone along the cease-fire lines in the Golan Heights.
    Jonathan Lincoln, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Hamas denied the charge and, in an effort to appeal to Egypt, built a buffer zone in 2016.
    Fox News, 28 Aug. 2019
  • It was based on a Colorado buffer zone law that has been upheld by the Supreme Court.
    Robert Barnes and Ann E. Marimow, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Outside of the buffer zone, the Golan Heights still bears traces of its violent past.
    Anna Fletcher, CNN, 25 Nov. 2019
  • But there are hard limits on how big this buffer zone can get.
    David Axe, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
  • There’s also a 1,000-foot no camping buffer zone around the site.
    Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2023
  • The buffer zone between the school and the incoming oil project is the students’ soccer field and a drainage ditch.
    Julie Turkewitz, New York Times, 31 May 2018
  • Police have set up a buffer zone to keep them from being too close to the courthouse.
    Eric Levenson, CNN, 27 June 2024
  • There is also a button to adjust the buffer zone between you and the car ahead.
    Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 11 Feb. 2021
  • At the same time, Egypt is building a new walled buffer zone more than 2 miles wide on Gaza border.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The Sochi agreement, as it is known, put the onus on Turkey to enforce a buffer zone up to 25km deep between the rebels in Idlib and the regime.
    The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Their pitch centered around the buffer zone as a health and safety measure.
    Darcy Costello, The Courier-Journal, 21 May 2021
  • Within the first week since the buffer zone was put in place, Ross noticed behavioral changes on both sides of the glass.
    Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 14 Apr. 2022
  • In August Turkey and America agreed to set up a buffer zone down the length of the border.
    The Economist, 9 Oct. 2019
  • One Ukrainian soldier stepped on a mine and tumbled onto the grass in the buffer zone between the two armies.
    Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 16 July 2023
  • Once homes are razed, the land is preserved as open space, a buffer zone for nuisance flooding.
    New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Unless the 49ers vax up, those empty seats will be the first safety buffer zone set up to protect the fans from the players.
    Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 June 2021
  • Landscaping, in the form of a tree buffer zone, will stand between the playground and pool area, and nearby homes.
    cleveland, 11 Jan. 2022
  • So far, Egypt has created a 3 mile buffer zone and is in a process of expanding it to 4.3 miles.
    chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2018
  • Toward the end of our walk, we were given seedlings to plant as part of a reforestation project in the buffer zone.
    Gina Decaprio Vercesi, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2021
  • The groups spent hours lobbing chants and insults at one another from across the buffer zone.
    The Courier-Journal, 9 July 2018
  • So far, Egypt has created a 3-mile buffer zone and is in a process of expanding it to about 4.3 miles.
    The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2018
  • Just beyond them where there’s open grassland, there should also be a fuel break – a buffer zone cleared of vegetation.
    Lauren Sommer, NPR, 17 Sep. 2024

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