How to Use clearing in a Sentence

clearing

noun

• We found a clearing in the forest.
• The road forked to the right and opened on a vast clearing.
  — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2022
• The clearing contained a corral, a shed and a makeshift shack.
  — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
• The clearing price of credits sold at auction has quadrupled.
  — Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2022
• One side of the island, where a clearing overlooks a small beach that leads down into a shallow bay, had been taken over as a campsite for the night.
  — Richard Collett, CNN, 10 Mar. 2022
• The destination, the clearing in the forest, is pleasure.
  — Zoë Hu, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2022
• Many of the jobs are grueling, involving clearing trees and brush with shovels and chainsaws and spending long hours under smoky skies.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2022
• The company says the clearing process could take weeks due to the tanks’ massive size and the delicacy of the operation, which is done by hand.
  — Elizabeth Harball, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2022
• When combined with the physical pore-clearing that the mask delivers, these potent resurfacing ingredients can irritate the skin.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 24 Mar. 2022
• The Halo Trust, which operates in over 30 countries and territories, is renowned for its work clearing landmines and war debris.
  — Erin Hill, People.com, 27 Sep. 2024
• Today this often happens indirectly via clearing banks or regulated U.S. firms that must follow sanctions laws.
  — Telis Demos, WSJ, 10 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
• The recent lecanemab trial is believed to be the largest test of whether clearing plaque from the brain can help slow Alzheimer’s.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 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

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024