How to Use seal off in a Sentence

seal off

verb

• This was with the kitchen doorway sealed off and the window closed, too.
  — Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 30 May 2023
• The area can be sealed off to mitigate air loss from the rest of the station.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
• But a dog can’t do that because there’s too much mouth to seal off.
  — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
• Clarkson cuts to the middle, and Olynyk finds a way to seal off his mismatch.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Oct. 2022
• Civilians sealed off their streets and prepared to fight.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• Katie will need only three tubes but must seal off the other three slots.
  — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Feb. 2022
• Make sure to find a pair of earbuds that fit comfortably and don't seal off any air to your ear.
  — John Thompson, Men's Health, 14 Feb. 2023
• Domestic flights had already been put on hold as part of measures to seal off the city.
  — Fox News, 7 Jan. 2022
• As more sharks hunt for seals off Cape Cod, beachgoers need to be aware of their presence.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
• At night this godlike figure would be sealed off from the rest of us by a black velvet curtain.
  — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
• Israel has sealed off Gaza since the start of the war, allowing only a trickle of aid from Egypt.
  — Wafaa Shurafa, arkansasonline.com, 17 Nov. 2023
• On the perimeter, the Zags challenged jumpers, sealed off passing lanes and held the Cowboys to 1-of-10 shooting from behind the line.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2024
• Shoigu didn’t indicate how many troops would need to remain in Mariupol to seal off the steel plant.
  — Fortune, 21 Apr. 2022
• The best solution is to seal off the soil and treat the space as part of the indoor part of the house, with insulation only on the perimeter, not under the floor.
  — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2021
• Gaza has been largely sealed off to the outside world since 2007 when Hamas took power and Israel closed its border.
  — WSJ, 12 Oct. 2023
• Some of the barriers used by Texas to seal off the park are owned by the federal government, Meyer added.
  — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2024
• The east end of the Texas Capitol’s second floor was sealed off, with only the 30 senators who are jurors allowed to be present.
  — Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2023
• In the Antarctic Ocean, orcas famously create waves to wash seals off ice floes.
  — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 July 2023
• But under full blockade on the Israeli side, and the Egyptian border sealed off, there is nowhere for the population to go.
  — Guy Davies, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2023
• But that’s partly due to it getting sealed off from the northern half and partly due to an anomalous winter of abundant snow.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023
• In the late Sixties, the tunnel was sealed off and closed to the public, but was once a subway that provided access the beach where food and souvenir vendors lined the walls.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2023
• After laying their eggs, mason bees use mud to seal off their nesting tubes to protect their eggs over the winter.
  — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Aug. 2022
• This damage leads to the formation of a clot, which seals off the area and prevents any further fluid leakage or bleeding.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• The entire West Bank has been sealed off, with multiple roadblocks and checkpoints between cities, since then.
  — Fatima Abdulkarim, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2023
• Walk the path of a potential breach to identify the best ways to seal off vulnerable assets.
  — Gidi Cohen, Forbes, 17 June 2021
• But suddenly, Gaza was sealed off, becoming a war zone.
  — Richard Engel, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2023
• Police sealed off the square and the area adjacent to the building, located in a busy part of town that has a popular street leading tourists to Old Town Square.
  — Jan Lopatka and Jason Hovet, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2023
• Last year, Russia sealed off its airspace to airlines from dozens of countries as its invasion of Ukraine started.
  — Laura He, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
• And don’t forget to clean up any mistakes around the nail bed with a non-toxic nail polish remover and seal off your look with a hard-wearing topcoat.
  — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2023
• Intense fighting in the area means the hospital has been effectively sealed off that month.
  — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024