How to Use seal off in a Sentence

seal off

verb
  • How the body could seal off a part of itself and shed it.
    — Hazlitt, 8 Oct. 2025
  • But a dog can’t do that because there’s too much mouth to seal off.
    — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The agents had been sealed off from the rest of the police to avoid leaks.
    — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
  • Use 10 gauge ¼-inch wire mesh to seal off any open space around the house.
    — Michael Harrelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2024
  • The city was right there, beyond the fence, but we were sealed off from it.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Our inner life is not sealed off from our organs.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Katie will need only three tubes but must seal off the other three slots.
    — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Feb. 2022
  • This was with the kitchen doorway sealed off and the window closed, too.
    — Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 30 May 2023
  • Close and seal off doors & windows, close fireplace dampers, and turn off the heat.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The chapel is sealed off and the cardinals are locked inside.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Trump in the first week of his second term has further sealed off access.
    — Rafael Carranza, ProPublica, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The area can be sealed off to mitigate air loss from the rest of the station.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The driver’s section is fully sealed off from us.
    — Akash Kapur, New Yorker, 12 May 2026
  • The silicon tip in most earbuds act as ear plugs of sorts, which help seal off sound.
    — Ben Sin, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Make sure to find a pair of earbuds that fit comfortably and don't seal off any air to your ear.
    — John Thompson, Men's Health, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Midea provides lots of foam padding to seal off the few remaining gaps.
    — Julian Chokkattu, Wired News, 12 May 2025
  • Domestic flights had already been put on hold as part of measures to seal off the city.
    — Fox News, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Your provider uses a laser or radiofrequency to seal off the vein.
    — Sarah Hudgens, Health, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Its underground central sphere will soon be sealed off and filled with liquid.
    — Eric Baculinao, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Clarkson cuts to the middle, and Olynyk finds a way to seal off his mismatch.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Elise sealed off the basement entirely, leaving her own child to die.
    — Noel Murray, New York Times, 12 May 2025
  • At night this godlike figure would be sealed off from the rest of us by a black velvet curtain.
    — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The Lim family has been advised to seal off the area beneath their house.
    — Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Investing time to seal off entry points around the home is critical.
    — Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 29 July 2025
  • The first step to keeping mosquitoes out is sealing off entry points.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Checkpoints were closing, cities were being sealed off in the West Bank.
    — Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 13 July 2025
  • As more sharks hunt for seals off Cape Cod, beachgoers need to be aware of their presence.
    — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
  • The other rips the seal off Rip City come Saturday night.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 8 May 2026
  • After laying their eggs, mason bees use mud to seal off their nesting tubes to protect their eggs over the winter.
    — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Questions about whether security was tight enough or should have sealed off the entire hotel will linger.
    — Rob Crilly, The Washington Examiner, 1 May 2026

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