How to Use clearing in a Sentence

clearing

noun

• We found a clearing in the forest.
• Mowing equipment that isn’t cleaned after the clearing of patches of these plants is also spreading the seeds.
  — Judi Ketteler, Good Housekeeping, 24 Apr. 2022
• Thursday: Cloudy through mid-morning, then gradual clearing with a high near 63.
  — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 14 Apr. 2022
• In a clearing not far away there was another body, left with the detritus of what had been a Russian military camp.
  — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
• In a clearing on one street, the police later found five members of a family, including two women and a child, their bodies dumped and burned.
  — New York Times, 11 Apr. 2022
• It’s the novel story of a time when children spent their days playing pick-up baseball games on a dirt clearing, and not developing their own e-commerce brands.
  — Matt Caputo, SPIN, 7 Apr. 2022
• The sequence resulted in benches clearing and Thompson getting ejected.
  — Meghan Montemurro, chicagotribune.com, 12 Apr. 2022
• Some city leaders have pushed for more action to address public intoxication, and the state is encouraging the clearing out of encampments.
  — Destiny Torres, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
• Partial clearing will develop after midnight, so Sunday morning will be dry with some sunshine and chilly temperatures.
  — Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2022
• His body had been close to Building 12 the whole time, investigators believe, down the path to the clearing where Russian soldiers had camped out.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2022
• Here a person might find the Kurdish alchemilla, the Syrian rhubarb and the Iranian onion sharing a single clearing.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• Portland may see a dry start to the weekend with a possible sprinkle early Saturday, but then afternoon clearing could stick around until Sunday morning.
  — oregonlive, 31 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 French drove him to a small clearing where lots of people had gathered.
  — Steve Straessle, Arkansas Online, 3 July 2023
• 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
• In that new clearing, native plants will have a chance to gain back a little ground.
  — Sonya Bennett-Brandt, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2022
• Just then a heavy gobbler made the mistake of trying to cross a small clearing.
  — Percy Brown, Outdoor Life, 17 Apr. 2023
• Later, the unit had to cross a clearing in range of Ukrainian artillery.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• Now, the politician who pushed for the clearing of those encampments is on the ballot.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2022
• Mild symptoms often go away within a day or two of smoke clearing from the area, according to Reid.
  — Lauren Penington, The Denver Post, 2 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024