Example Sentences

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“It was found within the scene that we have roped off downtown… I don’t know exactly where it was found, but I know it was found within that scene.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2022

There’s a pew they have roped off in the back that says, “This is the pew Abraham Lincoln sat in.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 5, 2019

He may also have roped in Comcast to alleviate financial worries about the plan to take over his former employer.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2014

Such is the mammoth scale of this Friday session that Thick As Thieves have roped in fellow Devon compadres Exit, Beats & Bass and Our House to help out.

From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2013

She would have roped off the area if she could.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri