How To Use Cordon In A Sentence

The cordonnet of Alençon is the only one which has horsehair for its foundation. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework
Nato was accused of trying to throw a cordon sanitaire around Russia.
Police cordoned off part of the city centre.
Gilli, a cordon bleu chef, suggests ‘roasting unpeeled cloves of porcelain garlic with potatoes and olive oil in the oven for 40 minutes at 180 C’.
For the first time in 80 years, three of the four processions for the end of Holy Week, Semana Santa, were cancelled, thanks to mad billows blowing over every banner and stanchion and cordon, rain guttering from every rooftop, children's fingers growing waxy. Wind and heavy rain greet Britons who headed for Spanish sun at Easter

Louisa Gouliamaki/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Greek riot police clashed with hundreds of people protesting austerity measures who tried to break a cordon outside Parliament. Anger in Athens
Security cordons around the airport were quickly put in place, removed, then reinstalled. Times, Sunday Times
The property and the adjacent house were cordoned off and an ambulance was put on standby near the scene.
Down the hall, separated by a cordon sanitaire of three intervening rooms, yet another lawyer was ploughing through Butler's work, also using pen and paper.
Demonstrators tried to break through the police cordon.
Following the discovery, police threw a cordon round the area and set up a 24-hour guard to protect the site.
Against police guidance, some individuals forced the security cordon in an anarchical way, insulting passers-by and police officers and saying they wanted to the head to the palace," the police said in a statement quoted by Angolan state news agency Angop. Several injured in Angola anti-government rally: report
This morning the only activity was a lone postman making his way along the street, and a couple of residents who came out to chat to police officers manning the cordon.
A cordon is a line of men, ships, or forts, so stationed as to prevent people from going into, or coming out of the place. The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 18, March 11, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
Cordonnet 6 fils D. M.C Nos. 15 to 30, or Fil à dentelle D. M.C Nos. 25 to Encyclopedia of Needlework
For the _cordon-bleu_ hoped that the lion would exhibit disapproval of the paint and powder by chumping off the offending head, and that would have been frightfully thrilling. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"
And Kuznetsova, with her dark hair and plaintive eyes and sometimes obnoxious laugh, has become a new emblem — an emblem not of suffering, but of anger with the place that Russia has become, a parallel world cordoned off from Europe and the United States that lacks drinkable tap water and a genuinely independent judiciary, and is led by a criminal regime driven by the puniest of ambitions: theft. From Russia, With Self-Loathing
Restrictions remained in place on the city's main thoroughfare for a couple of hours as gardaí cordoned off the scene and ambulances ferried the injured to hospital.
Officers cordoned off an area by the multi-storey car park. The Sun
Just minutes before there had been a buzz of uncertainty as people watched police officers cordoning off yet more streets in an area already divided every few yards by blue and white tape.
Fallujah, an all-out offensive; Telafar, a dangerous but more contained large-scale cordoned insurge. CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2005
Yards away, police officers manned a cordon around the house, and tarpaulins hung over the charred first floor window where firefighters are thought to have made the discovery of the bodies.
Soldiers forming a cordon around the police station became involved, and a wall was demolished by a British tank as they struggled to ‘collect’ the men, the MoD said.
Broken glass was everywhere, and parts of the lab had been cordoned off by police tape.
The entire perimeter of the cordon will temporarily become a no parking clearway to facilitate through traffic, emergency vehicles and mass transport providers.
The event was moved from the public library to a nearby street cordoned off by police. Archive 2009-08-01
Immediately behind a hastily erected cordon of thick gold rope stands a scrabbling posse of paparazzi. LOVE YOU MADLY
The street was cordoned off and forensic experts combed the area and the club for evidence.
One time I went down and went to the house and walked through the Secret Service cordon that had been thrown around the house.
Police were cordoning off the road as wailing ambulances weaved their way through the traffic.
The police cordon was unable to hold back the crowd.
Bomb disposal experts were called to the scene, the station was evacuated and a cordon thrown around the area until the all-clear was given.
Specimen half-standard fruit trees can be grown as features in the lawn or borders, and mini upright cordons can be grown individually, in small plantations in the borders or in pots for the patio.
Police later closed one end of Market Street to traffic for safety reasons, and cordoned off other parts of the shopping area.
Meanwhile, even going on tonight, police are, kind of cordoned off a section of the landfill where the trash from Saturday morning, the day of the morning after Robert disappeared has been held, and they haven ` t really sifted through that yet, but they ` re keeping it there to the case. CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2009
Roads passing the hotel will be blocked, local people issued with photographic identity cards and a five-mile steel fence with a second barrier inside the grounds will cordon off the hotel itself.
As we headed out for a run this afternoon we noticed that the pavement directly next to my gate had been cordoned off and there was a policeman and a policewoman standing guard over it.
They covered their mouths with black tape and tried to approach the courtroom before a cordon of police officers turned them away.
Created by the founder of Le Cordon Bleu cookery school, Rosemary Hume – rather than her better-known business partner, celebrity florist Constance Spry, as is often claimed – poulet reine Elizabeth, as it was originally known, was a deliberate and tactful compromise between the luxurious and the thrifty for a country still under the dreary yoke of postwar rationing. How to cook perfect coronation chicken
Unfortunately, there is no nutritional data next to the Cordon Bleu so you can only speculate as to how they are preparing food.
His eyes darted nervously back and forth between the protesters and the tense-looking Marines inside the cordon of concertina wire.
After all, why shouldn't the nation that brought us cordon bleu go wild for Welsh rarebit, steak and kidney pudding or a well-boiled egg?
Best-known brands are the medium dry Carta Nevada, launched in 1951, and Cordon Negro, a brut Cava in a distinctive black bottle.
The area around the terraced house was cordoned off with police tape earlier today.
Dowager went off in her jingling old coach, attended by two faithful and withered old maids of honour, and a little snuffy spindle-shanked gentleman in waiting, in a brown jasey and a green coat covered with orders — of which the star and the grand yellow cordon of the order of St. Michael of Pumpernickel were most conspicuous. Vanity Fair
LAVANDERA: ... we mentioned, in this parking lot has been kind of cordoned off from us but you know, from the vantage point here, you can just see ... CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2008
There is a tight security cordon around the area.
Downstairs again, Ed met her with the news that a cordon had been thrown around the cemetery. A MEANS TO EVIL
From midnight tonight, the three buildings and the surrounding areas will be cordoned off as part of a security exclusion zone round the conference.
Looking back, the precipitous shreds of sheeting rain effectively sanctioned a cordon between himself and what had gone before.
A truckload of troops was immediately sent to cordon off the area.
Soldiers in armoured vehicles and Humvees cordoned off the area.
Miller Beck, a small tributary of the River Leven near Newby Bridge, has become the latest area to have a section cordoned off to protect the habitat of migratory fish from thirsty cattle.
Last night, the area remained cordoned off and police marksmen still had their rifles trained on the flat.
Police taped the road off while a forensic team was brought in and a cordon remained in place until Friday morning.
Furnishings, he says, come mostly from retail fixture sales; the free-standing countertops that cordon off his kitchen area, for example, once displayed clothing.
Ivory Coast President-elect Alassane Ouattara cordoned off the Abidjan residence of his rival Laurent Gbagbo on Friday as his government moved to restore water service in the war-ravaged city of Abidjan and prepare for the resumption of cocoa exports, the African country's main foreign-currency earner. Ivorian Opposition Strives for Normalcy
Photos Associated Press "Her music was extraordinary," said local resident Tessa Crockett, 58, who bundled a bouquet of arum lillies to place outside a police cordon around Ms. Winehouse's flat. Singer Amy Winehouse Found Dead
When she told him, he broke the news to her that the whole area had been cordoned off by the bomb squad.
Chamber officials say the group collects about $100,000 in dues from overseas affiliates and that the money is cordoned off for use on "international programs. Obama continues attack on Chamber of Commerce
The bill also grants the army authority to enter buildings without a warrant, cordon off areas, erect barricades and stop vehicles to search them without a warrant.
a brown jasey and a green coat covered with orders -- of which the star and the grand yellow cordon of the order of St. Michael of Pumpernickel were most conspicuous. Vanity Fair
He regularly slips out of the White House to buy a burger, despite having a cordon bleu chef at his beck and call.
Sleep was a cordon keeping life at bay -- which was exactly where Diego thought it should be kept. MUSIC FOR BOYS
People living nearby were woken with the news at around 3am and the area was cordoned off by police tape.
Demonstrators tried to break through the police cordon.
Police cordoned off the area overnight and as dawn broke, forensic investigations began at the crime scene.
It was a stark contrast to 12 months ago when the area was cordoned off by police.
Five Dock police arrived shortly after and cordoned off the area before unleashing a sniffer dog.
The scene of the tragedy was cordoned off by police tape and was guarded by officers as investigations into the cause of the blaze continued.
Furnishings, he says, come mostly from retail fixture sales; the free-standing countertops that cordon off his kitchen area, for example, once displayed clothing.
Surely there not being a Christmas tree was not reason enough for the police to cordon the area off.
Uniformed police officers stood at each end of the cordons speaking to passers-by.
We detoured around two possible car bombs that had been cordoned off while Iraqis cautiously approached.
Tourists took pictures as the banners and flags filed past police cordons; curious onlookers gazed from hotel balconies.
The immediate area around the crane is still cordoned off for safety reasons, due to the risk of parts of the broken jib falling.
_Boom, boom, boom_, it broke nearer and nearer, as if a vast cordon of cannon was being drawn around the horizon. Prairie Folks
The club remained cordoned off for most of Saturday while a forensic crime scene investigation was carried out.
Police officers threw a cordon around his car to protect him.
The theatre's dark today, which is just as well because the police have just cordoned off the top of Roseberry Avenue with red tape.
Baugh was the catalyst, swivel-pulling the quickies, slashing and cutting like a blade and cleverly upper-cutting over the slip cordon and wicket-keeper.
The bombed areas were cordoned off from civilians who, by and large, remained unimpressed.
This time your boneless piece of Quorn is served ‘Cordon Bleu’.
There was a police cordon around the site but the demonstrators still broke through.
We went and had a look - it appeared to be very old, but the safety pin was out so that in the interests of safety we had to cordon off the Square.
We're clamping off everything to the west and stopping anyone moving on the streets or driving out of the cordon. VAPOR TRAIL
As police cordoned off part of the crash sites, firefighting planes and helicopters swooped overhead to battle a brush fire started by the crash.
Taking cognizance of the information, security forces cordoned off the area and started searches.
Police set up cordons around the area and closed the lower end of the High Street while firefighters began carrying out their investigations.
L and H were a great duo: L was anally tidy, a cordon bleu cook and kept the place spotless, and H was doing the whole late-onset rebellion thing and we stayed up all night watching movies.
Police cordoned off part of the city centre.
The meeting heard that permission would have to be sought from High Street frontagers and a licence would be required from the Highway Authority if part of the road had to be cordoned off for work.
Two ambulances, a fast response car and three fire engines attended the scene and six police officers helped cordon off the area.
Plum trees do not grow well in confined forms such as the cordon, which is better suited for apples and pears.
Looking frail in a light-blue short-sleaved shirt with a brown blanket over his lap, King Bhumibol was wheeled into a cordoned-off area of the hospital compound, at one point slowly raising his arm and maintaining his signature solemn expression. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
They include crab cakes, Reuben tarts, vegetable spring rolls, shrimp quiches, and smoked chicken cordon bleu appetizers, all of which can be cooked at the same time.
The items have been handed to state archaeologists, who have cordoned off the shrubland for further excavation. Times, Sunday Times
In all he did, he was as methodical as the lead chef at the Cordon Bleu.
A bodyguard who was close to the last two military leaders and who goes by the nickname "De Gaulle" was arrested attempting to pierce the police cordon around the house, Fall told The Associated Press by telephone. Guinean president survives assassination attempt
Entering the match with a first-class average of 28, he bettered the mark by one and started his Test tally with a glide through the cordon for a boundary.
The authorities were taken aback, and took the unprecedented step of cordoning off the painting.
But police cordons delayed his evacuation to a hospital, and he died a few hours later.
Her music was extraordinary," said local resident Tessa Crockett, 58, who bundled a bouquet of arum lilies to place outside a police cordon around Ms. Winehouse's flat. Troubled Singer, Famous for Husky Voice, Dies at 27
Three firefighters from Brookyln had just done 24 hours of it and now they were sitting dog-tired among the trash and weeds on the central reservation of the cordoned-off West Side Highway.
He retained a high boundary count, several via controlled edges through a packed slip cordon off Lakmal's outswing but also producing a crunching drive past a vacant cover as Dilshan kept an attacking field. WalesOnline - Home
A cordon was put in place and the army bomb disposal squad carried out a controlled explosion.
A security cordon 20 kilometres wide has been thrown around the resort village.
Heupel was like the dinner theater actor who forgot his lines over the chicken cordon bleu.
A cordon is not utilised with consent, it is a use of force and is perfectly legal and can be enforced by police officers, whether others consent or not. Policeman killed - NO STORY. Woman slapped - BIG STORY. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Some 20 minutes later a cordon of 40 more police officers surrounded the marchers to protect them in preparation for the march.
The block was cordoned off and large quantities of material were seized for examination. Times, Sunday Times
Even as the cordon of anti-noise ordinances tightened around peddlers, evidence also suggested that opinions differed on the subject of reasonable enforcement.
Police cordoned off the area overnight and as dawn broke, forensic investigations began at the crime scene.
_Boom, boom, boom_, it broke nearer and nearer as if a vast cordon of cannon was being drawn around the horizon. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891
Any piece of the urban landscape is subject to enemy reoccupation if it is left unoccupied or is not cordoned off by friendly forces.
Palestinian militants are still managing to launch rockets into southern Israel, despited a tightening Israeli cordon in Gaza. News for WNCT
Restaurants, chic boutiques, pousadas (B&B guesthouses) and a few dive shops now line the neat alleys cordoned off to traffic.
Trouble flared after the group were taken off the plane and kept in a cordoned-off area while other passengers disembarked.
The road was cordoned off by police and Scott was airlifted to the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel.
Ambulance crews and the police were called and cordoned the area off.
He disagreed withy my use of the word cordon, replying: "It's not necessarily to keep away from them, but to keep them away from us," adding that extra space for reporters give us room to roam, and ensures nobody inadvertently encroaches on that space. Liblogs.ca latest blog entries
But on Dec. 25, Milosevic banned street demonstrations and deployed cordons of heavily armed riot police to block the parades.
Inside the cordon were about fifty demonstrators and ten journalists. Pharaohs-in-Waiting
The city center's cordoned off ---it's basically a UN camp. MINUTES TO BURN
Demonstrators tried to break through the police cordon.
The police reacted swiftly and a man who broke through their cordon was brought down by a rugby tackle and arrested.
A huge crowd has gathered around the building, which has been cordoned off by the police.
If it wasn't for the distant cordon of troops sealing the dock area off there wouldn't have been a soldier visible anywhere.
Vines are generally cordon or single Guyot trained.
Even if they do, they tend to cordon it off from other feminist issues.
There is a tight security cordon around the area.
Part of Selby town centre was cordoned off when the gable end of a shop was struck by lightning, leaving a chimney stack poised precariously over a busy shopping street.
The cordon of police in front of us tried to prevent more protesters from joining those who blocked the entrances to the Convention Center.
The use of the word paternal calls to mind the way they threw a cordon around the country to prevent at the threshold the entrance of men who were unprepared for the hardships with either clothing or supplies or physique. Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police
Somebody recently showed me five different varieties of apples on cordons (single stems grown at 45 degrees to the ground) against a 4ft featherboard fence.
It is expected that some routes will be cordoned off to motorists and members of the public.
Smoke and flames were visible over a wide area and police mounted a cordon in Yarwood Street, near the main entrance to the shop.
Safety measures were taken during the protest with a cordon put around the children, in the shape of a ribbon which had been used during the school's sports day as a finishing tape.
The site was cordoned off and US military officials removed top secret equipment.
And the cordon, the cordon is the security zone outside the city, will also scarf up or kill many fleeing because that's what they're trying to do at that time. CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2004
A few weeks ago they started cordoning off the rink from the gym, school and other facilities. Vancouver and the Olympics « Colleen Anderson
To make such a program work, Congress would need to direct agencies to cordon off a certain number of nonsensitive jobs -- such as mail room, janitorial or maintenance work -- for ex-offenders, he said. From the WSJ Opinion Archives
Apparently this comical scene was an attempt to slip through the security cordon at the complex.
At one point a section of the harbour was cordoned off amid fears of exploding diesel as thick clouds of smoke and fumes billowed across Cartron Bay.
She successfully completed a Cordon Bleu cookery course earlier this year.
Aeros (Airborne Robotic Oil Spill Recovery System) is a fleet of airplane-deployed robots that cordon off the oil and use centrifuge-like oil/water separators to collect oil for refining.
There they were met by a cordon of police, standing in front of a barrier of police tenders.
The city's scheme will be officially put out to consultation this week along with two other proposals, one to do nothing, the other to have a single cordon.
Any piece of the urban landscape is subject to enemy reoccupation if it is left unoccupied or is not cordoned off by friendly forces.
The bombed areas were cordoned off from civilians who, by and large, remained unimpressed.
The cordon made a wide avenue; people lined it, flags everywhere. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
A police cordon prevented the marchers from entering the main square.
A tight security cordon has been thrown up around the centre to secure the privacy of relatives of the missing.
Along with others, I passed the flowers with those who were inside the cordoned-off area. Global Voices in English » Russia: Farewell to Actor Oleg Yankovsky
The inner cordon positions must set where they will be in defilade of the other inner cordon positions and the assault force in the event of a direct fire engagement.
Firefighters were also at the scene, and a group of military personnel waited at the edge of the cordon.
Miami riot police threw up a cordon around the home and fanned out across the city.
For the first time in 80 years, three of the four processions for the end of Holy Week, Semana Santa, were cancelled, thanks to mad billows blowing over every banner and stanchion and cordon, rain guttering from every rooftop, children's fingers growing waxy. Wind and heavy rain greet Britons who headed for Spanish sun at Easter
The area was not evacuated because police believed the site cordon was ample and there was no ‘immediate danger’.
Afin d'attester la sincerite et la chaleur de l'accueil que nous vous accordons Monsieur le Ministee, je tacherai de vous addresser quelques paroles en francais. Canadian Resource Policy
The curved steps of the rostra, rising like the seats of an amphitheater, had been cordoned off to form the court, and a large crowd was already clustered around it, eager to see what possible defense the famous orator could come up with for a client who was so manifestly guilty. CONSPIRATA
The whole area will have to be cleared of vehicles and cordoned off this weekend because work is about to start on strengthening the pier in readiness for a temporary linkspan.
Search specialists and sniffer dogs were also deployed as police extended the cordon to more than 300 metres from the deserted bus.
A cordon thrown around the house was extended during a search of the house yesterday and a tent was put up at the front door.
Several thousand more marched through Abuja, the capital, where police cordoned off government buildings. Nigerians Strike Over Gas Costs, Corruption
They alerted the coastguards and an area around the slipway of the pier was cordoned off.
The cordon on the top of the revetement of the escarp is a considerable obstacle to the besiegers.
Hundreds of reporters and camera crews filled the underground, frescoed courtroom before Knox's address on Monday, while police outside cordoned off the entrance to the tribunal. Amanda Knox Awaits Verdict (VIDEO)
Even better than the cordon bleu was the schnitzel, made like a parmigiana, with tomato sauce and melted cheese ($17.95, with soup, salad, dessert and coffee included).
I took a cordon bleu cookery course.
Throughout yesterday the passageway to the back-to-back terraced house was cordoned off by blue and white police tape and officers guarded the scene.
The city center's cordoned off ---it's basically a UN camp. MINUTES TO BURN
Dozens of people living in Cromwell Road in the Maindee area of the town were told to leave their homes as a police cordon was thrown around the area early yesterday.
Also a cordon is not legal territiry to be defended at all costs, it only acts as a cordon with the consent of the public to acknowledge it as such. Policeman killed - NO STORY. Woman slapped - BIG STORY. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Although the scientists say this amount will not harm the human body, the receiving area would nonetheless be cordoned off and situated at sea.
Police cordoned off the area until the bomb was made safe.
The area has been cordoned off and people living in the vicinity of the house have been evacuated to safety.
Jealous of the love radiating from the cordoned-off section of the parking lot, she distracted herself by shooting the smiles of strangers. {W}rite of Passage: Writing Well – Challenge 1 « Sarahndipitea
So they cordoned the area off while the bomb squad went to work and blew it up safely.
The protesters were met at the factory gates by a cordon of police officers, and around 500 people were arrested.
The bomb blew a five metre-wide crater into the middle of the road, which police have cordoned off.
The miners were armed with clubs as they forced their way through a police cordon.
Most of the building is closed off, under repair, with ropes cordoning off huge sections.
The three seemingly never-ending, dark days that we had spent sinking in black puddles and slipping on fallen leaves in a courtyard of faded, gray concrete apartment blocks, where we had waited with dozens of other reporters behind a small grove of defoliated trees and a police cordon. Peace Meals
Police immediately cordoned off the area as forensic experts carried out fingertip searches for evidence.
Avec leur cordon amovible, je les apprécie également lors de la pratique de mes sports favoris! Pro-Consumerist Poet #2 : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
Large cordons of police kept the tenants from defending the man while a group of bailiffs and police carried out the eviction.
Today the property remained cordoned off, guarded by uniformed police officers as inquiries continued.
Police cordoned off the area until the bomb was defused.
Police from the local precinct responded, cordoned off the area, and investigated the incident.
A cordon of armour was parked around newspapers and broadcasting stations, and key members of the previous administration were arrested.
So, I walked into the shop carrying my hypoallergenic Egyptian cotton washbag with super micro-hepa filtration, and there was Edward Denture, wantonly using the machines I had cordoned off with caution tape. Anhedonia (excerpt)
And if the father is not a cordon bleu chef, he could still be a commis chef and clean the pots and pans.
Yesterday the scene was cordoned off with police tape as fire investigators picked through the wreckage of the fire which left windows shattered and blackened.
The affected area of the beach was cordoned off on Monday of this week and decontamination was completed the following day.
This sparked outrage among some of the other marchers who jostled with the cordon of officers who had hemmed them in.
The cordon made a wide avenue; people lined it, flags everywhere. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
The same treatment suits the African waxbills, many of which are extremely beautiful, the crimson-eared waxbill or "cordon-bleu" being one of the most lovely and frequently imported. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
At one point, police cordoned off a city block after several dozen demonstrators jeered and razzed the incoming audience.
It's not clear whether cordoning pedestrians off for a special festival day is better for pedestrianism than having everyday neighbourhoods (like Kensington) where it's easy to get around by foot, where accident rates are low and where cars routinely cede the way to pedestrians and bikes.

How To Use Cordon In A Sentence

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