It seemed to shut Bruce off from the rest of the world.

You've shut us off from the world and we have sick people here.

He shut off everything, rubbing the sleep from his eyes, and looked out.

And because of that, you've shut yourself off from the world.

And when nations are shut off from the world, their people pay a steep price.

But that's in the sitting room, and we're shut off from it!

But how was Chicago, shut off from the rest of the world, to know?

"Are you going to shut yourself off from life because of something that happened fifteen years ago?"

And here I thought you were using it to shut yourself off from contact with other people.

Close private development has the effect of shutting the public off from the water.