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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • There’s also a 1,000-foot no camping buffer zone around the site.
    Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Thirty years ago, Russia had a buffer zone of satellite states to its west.
    Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2021
  • The Sahel region, a semi-arid belt that acts as a buffer zone just south of the desert, is most affected.
    Nell Lewis, CNN, 17 Mar. 2021
  • VRChat and Rec Room, which have both been around for years, also start users off with a default buffer zone.
    Rachel Metz, CNN, 5 May 2022
  • That put them beyond even the 150-foot buffer zone the law establishes.
    Elijah Nouvelage For Cnn, CNN, 3 Nov. 2021
  • For example, the homes will be electric- and solar-powered, and there will be a fire buffer zone of more than 120 feet from any building.
    Gustavo Solis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2020
  • If adopted by the agency, California’s 3,200-foot buffer zone would be the largest in any state.
    Phil Willon, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Singh said the family live in the village of Badi Jhiriya, which falls within the reserve's buffer zone, which is not fenced off.
    Esha Mitra and Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 3 Dec. 2021
  • If gray squirrels could be eradicated from these areas, a buffer zone could be put in place at their necks, to keep the grays at bay.
    Jason Thomson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2022
  • When the 49ers welcome back fans to Levi’s Stadium on Aug. 14 for a practice game against the Chiefs, there likely will be a buffer zone of empty seats nearest the field.
    Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 June 2021
  • The new bill does not support any buffer zone and opposes the intent for any withdrawal.
    Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 7 June 2023
  • Since this summer, the area has become part of a two-mile-wide buffer zone between Indian and Chinese troops.
    Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Or will there be a buffer zone more like the Partners statue near Cinderella Castle?
    Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Sep. 2022
  • There is a 35-mile buffer zone around the base, as there are Russian and Syrian government troops in the surrounding area.
    Catherine Garcia, The Week, 20 Oct. 2021

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