rope off

phrasal verb

roped off; roping off; ropes off

: to separate (an area) from another area with rope

The police roped off the street for the summer festival.

Part of the exhibit had been roped off.

Examples of rope off in a Sentence

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Quarantines roped off parts of the countryside controlled by armed groups. —

Elizabeth Dickinson, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2024 Several hiking trails are temporarily closed under the San Bernardino National Forest’s Line fire closure order, which ropes off what The Times estimates to be about 70% of national forest land to the public and includes large swaths of the region that weren’t burned by the fire. —

Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024 The beach, like a number of others along this languid Northern California river, was marked as private property, roped off with floating buoys emblazoned with stark red signs warning the public away. —

Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024 Police still had the hotel lobby roped off with crime scene tape for hours on Tuesday. —

Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 17 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for rope off