How to Use wall off in a Sentence

wall off

phrasal verb

• The game-changer was a three-run homer over the leftfield wall off the bat of Jenna Gremel.
  — Wright Wilson, Detroit Free Press, 17 June 2023
• Shannon leads me back to her office, which is walled off from the bait shop.
  — Robert N. Jenkins, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• The smaller of the two bedrooms is walled off from the main living space by a series of raw pine shelves filled with books.
  — Eviana Hartman Dean Kaufman Colin King, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• Trump even promised to wall off the nation's 2,000-mile southern border.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 30 Apr. 2023
• The storm sheared the roof and walls off the building, mangling metal beams and leaving battered cars in the parking lot.
  — CBS News, 27 May 2024
• Maybe the crowdsourcing sites will manage to wall off their content.
  — James Somers, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2023
• It is bathed in salt water, moves around as the head swivels and bobs, and it is equipped with immune defenses meant to wall off invaders.
  — Christina Jewett, New York Times, 22 May 2024
• Patrick said the privacy of the cocoon seat, which is walled off on three sides, was another crowd pleaser.
  — Randy Diamond, Sacramento Bee, 26 Jan. 2024
• Creations Shop is open and browsable and convenient to the area around Walt’s sitting statue, which was walled off for a long stretch.
  — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 8 July 2024
• Daniel Suarez slammed the wall off Turn 2 when trying to stay on the lead lap battling leader Chris Buescher and has likely has right front damage.
  — Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 6 May 2024
• Like Jesse, Finn and Becca have suffered losses, walled off their hearts to protect themselves and found silent solace among the trees.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2024
• Perhaps inevitably, he’s earned a reputation in some quarters as a recluse, walled off in his own kind of fortress.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 30 July 2024
• That laid the foundation for modern science, where matter and mind were walled off from each other.
  — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 4 June 2024
• To many, the neighborhood felt like a corporate fortress, invisibly walled off from the rest of downtown.
  — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
• One spring morning, light streams through the tunnel in Helen and Bob's blue house, now walled off into a colorful sunroom.
  — Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Apr. 2023
• Jakobsson walled off a fullback, enabling her short pass forward, to Shaw.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2023
• Number one, Netflix was the first platform where a comic could put their special on and it wasn’t interrupted or walled off.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 19 Dec. 2023
• Shelton intended the courtyard as a three-season room that can be walled off with removable wooden gates to block views from the streets on either side.
  — Cynthia Billhartz Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
• Oceans are increasingly less of a factor in walling off the United States from the rest of the world, which for over 200 years helped provide for the country’s communal cohesion.
  — Robert D. Kaplan, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2022
• Knocking the south wall off the original plan lost Three Leaf some square footage, leading them to decrease apartment units by ten from the original 163 units proposed, Michalkiewicz said.
  — Bridget Fogarty, Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2024
• Two innings later, Sullivan lifted his first career homer, a two-run blast, over the right field wall off lefty reliever Alex Young for a 4-0 lead.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 3 May 2023
• That public beach is walled off from Cage because the surf-bum bullies are trust-fund kids shielding their private community.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 May 2024
• In Groves’ mind, keeping his various teams walled off from one another will help ensure the strictest secrecy.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• On Friday, however, the Blazers lured the Pacers away from that approach by walling off the paint and making their drives difficult while also giving them space to shoot from the outside.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Jan. 2024
• On the other, above Caroline, there’s a space walled off from the audience with a window, seemingly an exterior view of his home.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2024
• Since Chinese products will remain mostly walled off from the United States owing to the trade war, Brussels will be an important bellwether.
  — Chad P. Bown, Foreign Affairs, 28 Apr. 2020
• Work crews followed them in, razing trees and greenery and walling off the space by double-stacking heavy metal cargo containers around the entire park perimeter.
  — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
• The singer-songwriter sprung to wider notice with the 2012 film, which chronicled the fixation of South African fans enchanted by Rodriguez’s music while that country was walled off from the world during apartheid.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2023
• Perhaps the most immediate and long-lasting damage from walling off the United States would come from new restrictions on the immigration of high-skilled workers.
  — Kenneth F. Scheve, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2018
• Israel’s border with Gaza is one of the most heavily fortified in the region, walled off with a high-tech barrier fence and guarded by military outposts.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024