coop up
Example Sentences
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You're too valuable, though, to coop up in a penitentiary, and I'm going to buy you off.
From Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford by George Randolph Chester
By occupying all the posts of Egypt, we can coop up the French and force them to capitulate.
From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose
He dragged the lath coop up on the side.
From Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good by Albert Walter Tolman
From Berwick the king turned back triumphant to coop up his enemies in London while fresh Papal excommunications fell on the barons and the city.
From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by John Richard Green
The task was a hard one, however, and though Rundle succeeded in holding his line intact, it appeared to be impossible in that wide country to coop up altogether an enemy so mobile.
From The Great Boer War by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
