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
• 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 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
• 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
• Below us was a clearing, with a circle of lean-tos at the center.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• The clearing date was posted on the site, and all but two people were gone by the time crews arrived.
  — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jan. 2022
• 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
• Cloudy during the early evening, then gradual clearing, with a low of around 47.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Jan 2025