Example sentences for: off-limits

How can you use “off-limits” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • To the right (west) of the old Forbidden City is a new version, Zhongnanhai, where China’s communist leaders are ensconced today (strictly off-limits to all visitors).

  • The celebrated passage to doom, linking the Ducal palace with the prisons, supposedly moved its users to sigh on their way to the torture chambers (now off-limits).

  • Almost one-third of the country's best jobs were off-limits for anyone who refused to join a union.

  • The NYT quotes an unidentified senator characterizing both Monday and Tuesday's off-limits meetings, and the LAT refers to several unnamed senators in its description of a witness-related compromise being worked out behind closed doors.

  • Skepticism about enhancement technologies is not equivalent to a wish to set back medical research and declare some applications off-limits.


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