How to Use clearing in a Sentence

clearing

noun

• We found a clearing in the forest.
• 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
• Those teams scheme well and run precise combination and clearing routes.
  — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 25 Jan. 2022
• Scott and 11 Base members are walking an unmarked path to a clearing above a creek bed.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
• Photos shared by the fire department show the mangled tower draped across a dirt clearing behind a line of homes.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
• The short video shows a group of structures in the wooded area with snow piled high against the side of one of them and a clearing where the helicopter could land.
  — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2022
• Pimm noted that a key area of concern with mass clearing in the Amazon is a mere four-hour flight to Miami.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2022
• High pressure offshore will move across the valleys overnight, leading to clearing and possible fog formation.
  — oregonlive, 3 Feb. 2022
• For the next four summers researchers investigated the clearings.
  — Zhengyang Wang, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2024
• Large deforestation patches indicate the presence of wealthy grabbers, given the cost of clearing land.
  — Cynthia S. Simmons, The Conversation, 2 Feb. 2022
• Extended forecasts are now showing morning fog, but afternoon clearing in the Portland area through Sunday.
  — oregonlive, 2 Feb. 2022
• There is only Lena to follow as that heroine approaches the woodland clearing where her father’s book may have been concealed and where violence now suddenly erupts.
  — Anna Mundow, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
• Everything from truck plows pushing snow to the edges of the parking lots, to giant front-loaders clearing piles and dumping them into dump trucks could be seen keeping busy as cars drove between the massive piles in the lots.
  — David Petkiewicz, cleveland, 5 Feb. 2022
• Despite the risks, most regulation has involved requirements for fire-safe construction and vegetation clearing.
  — New York Times, 26 Jan. 2022
• The road forked to the right and opened on a vast clearing.
  — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2022
• Erik Stock hit a bases-clearing double in the sixth to make it 15-6.
  — Hartford Courant, 15 May 2022
• 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 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
• The group walks past the football field, along the edge of a grove and reaches a little clearing.
  — Vogue, 3 Mar. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Below us was a clearing, with a circle of lean-tos at the center.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024