How to Use clearing in a Sentence

clearing

noun
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  • We found a clearing in the forest.
  • The road forked to the right and opened on a vast clearing.
    — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Lows hold in the low to mid-70s with partial clearing late.
    — Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Erik Stock hit a bases-clearing double in the sixth to make it 15-6.
    — Hartford Courant, 15 May 2022
  • The road took us to an open clearing, bare and treeless like a wound.
    — Lauren Markham, Wired, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Only to see Oak, the heir to Elfhame, standing in a clearing.
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Now, people will raise the question of the clearing of the temple.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 June 2022
  • Skies will be cloudy much of the day with some clearing by the afternoon.
    — oregonlive, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Having reached the top, I am allowed to take a seat in a clearing.
    — Anna Bader, Glamour, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The warm temps will come with clearing skies but strong winds as gusts hit 33 mph.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Lewis still needed to get 100 yards across the clearing.
    — Benjamin Alva Polley, Outside Online, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The clearing contained a corral, a shed and a makeshift shack.
    — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The French drove him to a small clearing where lots of people had gathered.
    — Steve Straessle, Arkansas Online, 3 July 2023
  • As darkness gave way to dim light, a wolf emerged in a clearing.
    — Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The group walks past the football field, along the edge of a grove and reaches a little clearing.
    — Vogue, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Bedard gloved a Sharks clearing attempt in midair to keep the puck in the zone and the attack alive.
    — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2024
  • There's more space in the room, or the space that is there is brighter, as though a clearing away has happened.
    — Outside Online, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The jet hit a clump of trees and skipped across a small lake before crashing to a stop in a clearing.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2022
  • Now, the Icelandic sheep mosey around a clearing where many of the trees once stood.
    — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2022
  • Gabby's body was in a clearing and was just in front of the remnants of a fire ring, Jim Schmidt said.
    — Leyla Santiago, CNN, 7 Oct. 2021
  • But that clearing was a mile away and 1,200 feet down steep terrain.
    — Benjamin Alva Polley, Outside Online, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The four settlers were in a clearing; one had an M16 and was walking along the edge of the terraced grove of olive trees.
    — Shane Bauer, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • In the clearing, Suciu showed us how to cook slănină, cured slabs of pork fat, on sticks over the flames.
    — Kate Eshelby, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The body of Sasha Krause, 27, was found face-down in a forest clearing with her hands bound with duct tape.
    — Felicia Fonseca, The Arizona Republic, 19 Jan. 2022
  • In a small clearing along the Bear Lake segment is the fuselage of a red and white Cherokee plane.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2022
  • Everyone dressed in red, white, and blue, and went down to a clearing by the lake where games had been set up.
    — Emily Ziff Griffin, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The clearing of the timber and construction will start very soon.
    — David Showers, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Below us was a clearing, with a circle of lean-tos at the center.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • His girlfriend’s brother and two friends appear to be the first ones to have found him after lunchtime that December day, still sitting in his truck in the open clearings that follow the power lines.
    — Adam Carlson, People.com, 10 Feb. 2025
  • The moisture is expected to continue through Thursday, before the weather service said clearing will start to take place on Friday.
    — Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2025

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