How To Use Close off In A Sentence
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An alert Sailor called for someone to summon the corpsman and then he dropped to the deck to close off the blood loss by use of a tourniquet.
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Try telling the subtopian, land-hungry Englishman that his wretched home in Dismal Close off Dreary Avenue is not a castle but a cancerous cell that is destroying what remains of his country.
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It allowed the body to invoke “cloture” to close off debate, but it set a high standard: It required a two-thirds supermajority of senators present and voting—generally sixty-seven votes.
The Good Fight
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Police will also be able to close off-licences if they deem it necessary, including those near football grounds.
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By reading BUFFET FROID as part of the postmodernist project, it seems to me, we close off these "totalising" interpretations and leave only one valid reading of the text: as an autotelic artefact of darkly comic absurdity, the ironic distance of its vision the only tenable response in a postmodern era.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Postmodern(ism)
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But certainly sufficient to close off a cycle lane.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is a slightly more intractable problem than the prospect that any totalitarian movement will close off opportunities for its own later displacement by refusing to hold further elections.
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Ministers and mandarins worry that scientific advice will close off politically palatable options.
Times, Sunday Times
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And then, for a short story I fix my eye on the end point and let the rest happen; for a novel I kind of wallow, and try to keep the process playful and not-a-chore and not close off too many possibilities.
Children's Lit Fabulosity
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One recommendation was giving district licensing committees discretion to close off-licences near schools between 3pm and 4pm, as part of potential conditions when considering new or renewed off-licences.
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Insects close off the posterior of the mouth with a second ‘lip,’ the labium.
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But certainly sufficient to close off a cycle lane.
Times, Sunday Times
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What we should not do is suppress dissent, close off argument and condemn those who question the standard line as heretics.
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An infill piece can be added on top of the wall to close off an area, creating a private office.
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The leopard obviously hadn't been able to close off the windpipe.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ministers and mandarins worry that scientific advice will close off politically palatable options.
Times, Sunday Times
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In close off Byron there were flathead and some fit looking squire, while out wider the cobia and mackerel and yellowfin tuna were the big drawcards.
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It went into examinership in August after its British business went into liquidation and it was forced to close offices worldwide.
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As the opening speech noted, the graduation ceremony is a very proper way to close off your career at Oxford.
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Modified ossicles called lappets that border the ambulacral groove function to close off the groove and prevent damage to the tube feet.
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It examines an ambitious new infrastructure plan to close off Sydney's ocean outfalls and reclaim the water from the smallest room in the house.
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My current plan is, once Ellen has her baby, I'll close off the jumper somehow, stuff it, and make it into a little crotcheted Cthuluish toy.
Ana-ng Diary Entry
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A fourth season hasn't aired yet in Britain, and the final episodes of this season close off the characters quite nicely.
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These days, the police are gone, the coca is plentiful and locals close off roads for multiday block parties—not rumbles with law enforcement.
Cocaine: The New Front Lines
