CLEARING in a Sentence

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With the clearing of her vision the sweep of peril had extended, and she saw that the post of danger was no longer at Dorset's side.

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 Meanings and Examples of CLEARING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
clearing
 n.  the act of freeing from suspicion
 n.  a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Then the girl had returned to her task of clearing up the kitchen for the night and he had taken his lantern and gone on his usual round outside the house.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
2  Mattie, when the meal was over, went about her usual task of clearing the table and washing up the dishes.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  "Hum--hurrump," said Gerald, clearing his throat in embarrassment at being caught openly in an act of kindness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  The negroes idled about, clearing the long tables on which the food had been laid.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  It's a clearing house for gossip.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
6  "There are such lots of horrors this morning," she added, clearing a space in the centre of the confusion and rising to yield her seat to Miss Bart.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
7  With the clearing of her vision the sweep of peril had extended, and she saw that the post of danger was no longer at Dorset's side.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
8  A photograph of a forest clearing: pathetic new furrows straggling among stumps, a clumsy log cabin chinked with mud and roofed with hay.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  The house was so unsheltered, so battered by the wind, so bleakly thrust out into the harsh clearing, that Carol shivered.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  She was fumbling at a door-knob which whirled in insulting circles; she was on the stoop, gasping, forcing air into her chest, her head clearing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  It narrated the success of a farm-lassie in clearing her brother of a charge of forgery.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
12  The schooner was run into the wind, and while the hands were clearing away the stern boat, Queequeg, stripped to the waist, darted from the side with a long living arc of a leap.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
13  The trees of many acres had been felled, and the glow of a mild summer's evening had fallen on the clearing, in beautiful contrast to the gray light of the forest.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21
14  The route taken by Duncan and David lay directly across the clearing of the beavers, and along the margin of their pond.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22
15  There yet lingered sufficient light in the heavens to exhibit those bright openings among the tree-tops, where different paths left the clearing to enter the depths of the wilderness.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The fans booed when it became clear that their football team would lose again.
17  He first promised two weeks ago to clear Britain's congested roads.
18  The rain has helped clear the air.
19  Close analysis of sales figures shows clear regional variations.
20  We were not expecting Mr Levy to give us a clear or well-defined answer.
21  It was clear to land so we made our approach.
22  The downside of this approach is a lack of clear leadership.
23  There seemed to be no clear motive for the attack.
24  If you compare the two books side by side, it is clear that the author of the second has plagiarized.
25  It's clear that the author is a woman.
26  The author provides a clear definition of cultural awareness.
27  Two very clear and comprehensive handbooks are available.
28  There is no clear and unbiased information available for consumers.
29  There are many creams available from the chemist which should clear the infection.
30  Breastfeeding offers a clear advantage to your baby.