But then you heard from those roped-off fans, some of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Time for Palmer to walk into Augusta sunset] Reference

The were befuddled when confronted with the roped-off mess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chumley's, After the Fall] Reference

It dropped him at the entrance to the roped-off circus area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beast Master's Circus]

He jumps out, slams the door and walks toward the roped-off area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riding the edge: For a moment, skaters, punk bands and artists had a secret place to call home.] Reference

During the intermission, the VIPs thronged a roped-off reception area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama-rina! At Ballet Gala, Gals Bare Arms in Solidarity; Al Roker Stays Awake] Reference

On our side a stretch of the sidewalk was included in a roped-off area.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Mountain]

For one, I've always hated the idea of roped-off V.I.P. areas at events.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inside Story Behind the Vanity Fair Oscar Party] Reference

We were forced to go around one roped-off area where couples were dancing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shaman's Crossing]

Instead, they were confined to roped-off areas like caged animals at the zoo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The CW Takes a 3-D Approach to OMG TV] Reference

Of course, the spirit couldn't leave the confines of the roped-off ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ripping Time]

But the doctors could see only the inoculated people in the two roped-off areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Surgeon] Reference

A roped-off area had been reserved for the Ziff-team suppOrt group and families.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laura's Baby]

What I had realized was that pink stood for feminine, and that was roped-off area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pink!] Reference

At the roped-off edge of the dirt field, a group of children had gathered to watch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spirit Gate] Reference

And, people are milling about outside the roped-off area, so you can still network.    From Wordnik.com.  [ICON conference on now in NYC « Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog] Reference

The Ceraks took their seats in the roped-off section reserved for the five families.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mistaken Identity] Reference

As long as you stood inside the roped-off area, nobody could demand payment from you.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kitchen God's wife]

Edgar Wright shades his eyes and surveys the scene around him from a roped-off side stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scott Pilgrim Vs The World's Michael Cera and Edgar Wright go into battle at Comic-Con] Reference

At most campaign rallies, the women sit quietly in roped-off sections separate from the men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flexing Their Muscles] Reference

There were some cries of protest, even of dismay, about the outside of the roped-off circle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magicians of Gor]

But Wie, according to Witters, had already walked outside the roped-off area around the tent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wie DQ'd from LPGA stop over scorecard flap] Reference

I walked back and forth through the now empty roped-off snaking line and went up to the agent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death on the Caribbean] Reference

Running through the middle of each is a roped-off walkway that the players take onto the field.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Grand Corral for Cowboys Fans] Reference

Working in a carefully roped-off area, Byrnes found a broken segment of desiccated bone fragment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder] Reference

Recognized immediately, I am quickly ushered into the roped-off “plaza” of the broadcast tent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-02] Reference

Fred Couples asked from the putting green, where roped-off voices were competing for his attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Humility is par for this course] Reference

Deciding to have some fun with their misfortune, the curators turned the roped-off area into its own art piece.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Will Inherit Dumbo? Sculptors Get Run Over] Reference

When we left, you could see the roped-off areas for people who didn't belong to families but had come down anyway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remembering The Woman He Loved And Lost] Reference

Travelers have moved onto woodland in Shenstead Village and are guarding the roped-off site with German shepherds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox Evil]

Strode looked from Audley to the battle line, then to the roped-off area of the redoubt, and finally back to Audley again.    From Wordnik.com.  [War Game]

They stood around the Chrysler at a cautious and respectful distance, like it was a roped-off exhibit in a modern art museum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bad Luck and Trouble]

SPECIAL AGENT KAPLAN escorted Rainie and Quincy to the roped-off crime scene where the victim had been found yesterday morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Killing Hour]

We are all capable of anything, and the moral universe does not have roped-off VIP sections where only good people are allowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roderick Spencer: Yes We Are Them and They Are Us] Reference

Near the factory, just down a road from a roped-off patch of land still heavily mined after the country's civil war, Apelizinha.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Ahead, he could see a line of low tables arrayed across the end of the roped-off area he and the other passengers were walking through.    From Wordnik.com.  [Angelmass]

Around three sides of the roped-off space there was a roped-off alley with boards laid upon the ice upon which the spectators could stand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause] Reference