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How to use cordon in a sentence

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Last night, police were forced to cordon off nearby roads and reroute rush hour traffic as toxic fumes poured into the sky.
With the accent on everything French this time around, you may want to try the chicken cordon bleu or beef bourguignon.
It commands cells at the site of infection to kill themselves, which helps cordon off the microbial invader.
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?
Yards of emergency tape, velvet cordon and monobrowed guards cut the butler off from his queue of about 100 fans.
Someone broke through the police cordon and kicked him with terrible force.
A cordon was put in place and the army bomb disposal squad carried out a controlled explosion.
Already weak from days without food and water, he and three colleagues had sneaked past a cordon of armed guards in the dead of night.
It was a similar story at St Aidan's where parents arrived at the cordon only to be turned away.
The trouble began after supporters of the Orangemen were allowed to pass the security cordon.
This sparked outrage among some of the other marchers who jostled with the cordon of officers who had hemmed them in.
I arrived at work one evening to find the place surrounded by police cars, flashing lights, cordon, the works.
To find the reserves, you'd have use massive manpower to cordon off the state, moving inward, sweeping every single building you came to.
Firefighters were also at the scene, and a group of military personnel waited at the edge of the cordon.
Television footage showed clothing strewn on the charred ground and investigators combing the site at night behind a cordon.
Apparently this comical scene was an attempt to slip through the security cordon at the complex.
And if the father is not a cordon bleu chef, he could still be a commis chef and clean the pots and pans.
His eyes darted nervously back and forth between the protesters and the tense-looking Marines inside the cordon of concertina wire.
The protesters were met at the factory gates by a cordon of police officers, and around 500 people were arrested.
The alert was only lifted after Mr Neale turned up at the cordon line and asked police why they were so interested in his car.
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A cordon of cottages at a little distance were the homes of the assistant warders.
How I should like to have drawn a cordon of policemen round the party and netted the whole.
And in the name of friendship, let me beg of you to place this cordon in your hat.
I remembered that at the fall calf-branding Uncle Jake had expressed his approval of our cordon bleu in no measured terms.
The cantinire must have given proof of her worth either as a cook in the hospital or as a cordon bleu in the city.
Delicacy of flavor, and not solidity, is the result aimed at by a true French cordon bleu.
If you had wanted a chef for a club, or a cordon bleu for a West End hotel, we might have accommodated you.
She trained herself to be a cordon bleu and a sick nurse, a tailor and a cobbler.
A proposal by President Carranza to draw a cordon sanitaire round the place has not yet reached Washington.
To this letter were added a lieutenant-general's commission and the grand cordon of Saint-Louis.
The U-form classifies somewhere between the cordon and the espalier.
By the time he reached the cordon a violent fusillade was in progress.
Police put up a 20-metre cordon around sand dunes situated on the beach, while an officer guarded the area.
But there is not a cordon bleu in every regimental cook-house.
Ascending, I pulled a cordon bleu, and was admitted into the apartment.
About eleven a company of soldiers came through Horsell, and deployed along the edge of the common to form a cordon.
The lane was crowded with villagers and people from the neighbouring farmhouses, who were all kept back, however, by a little cordon of soldiers.
For this purpose rundle formed a long line which should serve as a cordon.
Shouldn't we put a cordon round to prevent the rest from running away?
Lamb curry, mixed bean and root vegetable stew, lasagne, risotto, pilchards and tuna are the distinctly cordon bleu creations being recommended for toddlers.
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