CORDON in a Sentence

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Example sentences for CORDON, such as:

1. Protesters tried to break through a police cordon.
2. Police officers threw a cordon around his car to protect him.
3. The police cordon was so tight that the criminals could not leave the area.
4. China is cordoning off its own solar market to fend off international competition.
5. There was a police cordon around the site but the demonstrators still broke through.

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 Meanings and Examples of CORDON
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cordon
 n.  line around an area to enclose or guard it
Classic Sentence:
1  It was the middle-watch; a fair moonlight; the seamen were standing in a cordon, extending from one of the fresh-water butts in the waist, to the scuttle-butt near the taffrail.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 43. Hark!
2  It was in the midst of this repose, that Archy, one of the cordon, whose post was near the after-hatches, whispered to his neighbor, a Cholo, the words above.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 43. Hark!
3  One day, a haughty cook, a cordon bleu, of the lofty race of porters, presented herself.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V—BASQUE AND NICOLETTE
Example Sentence:
1  Protesters tried to break through a police cordon.
2  Police officers threw a cordon around his car to protect him.
3  There was a police cordon around the site but the demonstrators still broke through.
4  The police cordon was so tight that the criminals could not leave the area.
5  China is cordoning off its own solar market to fend off international competition.