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Cordoned by tangles of wires and toppled trees that totaled every car in sight, the cul-de-sac Sharrett’s house sits on is an utter ruin.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2020

Cordoned off from everything beyond, weather easily gives itself over to banality: When we babble to a stranger about how warm it is or how much snow we’re getting, we’re talking about what’s simply here.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2016

Cordoned off like animals at the zoo, and with a security guard standing by, the men purport to be getting along at their automotive slumber party.

From Washington Post • Jan. 30, 2015

Cordoned with a horde of photographers across from the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington that day, Mr. Stearns trained his lens on Jacqueline Kennedy as the coffin neared.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2012

Cordoned off from the world, he became the prisoner of his palace entourage, of his wife and of the Shanghailanders who, with Jiang Qing, formed the Gang of Four.

From Time Magazine Archive