How To Use Cleanly In A Sentence

They found it difficult to cleanly isolate this property as an aspect.
The chemical industry is under pressure to reduce its impact on the environment and to run its operations as cleanly and efficiently as possible.
Persons must indeed be of very uncleanly habits, whose heads absolutely require the aid of this comb, as the brush alone sufficiently possesses the power of effectually cleaning the hair from scurf, dandriff, and dust, if constantly used. The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies
A large incinerator has been operating in south Bramalea for some years now, cleanly burning up garbage, all the while pumping electricity on to the nearby power grid.
Only the distance of history lets us believe that such events are ever carried out cleanly and efficiently.

This sort of abuse will break a too brittle blade or loosen a flimsy blade pivot, but it stood up to this challenge before shaving off more ribbons of paper as cleanly as it had at the beginning.
I guess the Oxford English Dictionary cuts it more cleanly with a black and white approach.
Two: I have caused there to be cleanly disposal of wastes that threatened the health of our parish. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
She would cut the cord that bound her to them cleanly and irrevocably.
The northern flank is hollowed by a giant chalkpit with cleanly cut sides. Times, Sunday Times
she played the piano accompaniment cleanly
With an abstract data type we cleanly separate the programming tasks of implementation and usage: we are well on our way to decompose a large system into smaller modules.
Our own Product, in a cleanly wholsome manner, contented our Appetites; such as serv'd the Conveniency of Life, not superfluous Luxury. A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies
Shorn of the ostentatious nostalgia that afflicts too many period films, The House of Mirth is a bracing, cleanly wrought spiral of a film, a chiller in the true sense of the word.
But even if they burn more cleanly, that's not the end of the problem.
Looking over the city which he somehow embodies, he simply churns out the words, cleanly, efficiently and quickly.
Cut the stem cleanly, just beneath a leaf joint.
Joseph cleans cleanly a cave, makes a bed with the hay lets Masurium Advantage rest.
That porous layer, which contains stabilized zirconia and small amounts of the metals ruthenium and cerium, chemically and cleanly converts the fuel to hydrogen.
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These can power petrol, diesel and gas turbine engines more cleanly than existing petroleum fuels. Times, Sunday Times
Then the priest wipeth first these three fingers on the corporal, to the intent that the more cleanly he may take the precious hostie. The Golden Legend, vol. 7
When pruning small branches with hand pruners, make sure the tools are sharp enough to cut the branches cleanly without tearing.
It burns very, very cleanly in the engine, so it improves emissions in the overall environment a lot.
A solid wood stem and mahogany floors and stiffeners complete the basic construction which has been particularly cleanly executed by West Custom.
The song picks up for its coda, breaking into a steady waltz beneath cleanly strummed guitars and theremin.
Logan made a 19-foot jumper and a 3-pointer both shots went in cleanly as Cincinnati opened a 41-27 lead. USATODAY.com - Bearcats zone in on league title
Energy can be recovered, waste dealt with cleanly, and everyone will be happy.
I spent a few minutes in a sandbox Thomas made available and the system seems cleanly designed, easy to ‘get’, and flexible.
The flexible plastic bilayer pulled away from his skin cleanly. 365 tomorrows » Sam Clough : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Entrants in Geraldton Speed Shears had to demonstrate they could shear a sheep quickly and cleanly within a set time.
In order to address their 'Magnum P.I.' hypothesis, the researchers undertook a series of associative choice experiments using both live males mustached versus cleanly shaven and video playbacks of the same male either with his mustache or with it removed. Carin Bondar: Excuse Me... I Think You've Got Something Stuck on Your Upper Lip
Burning cleanly with no pollutants, this may be an answer the energy sucking economy is looking for.
Again, we find no reason to suppose that metaphysical issues can be cleanly detached from epistemological concerns.
Northumberland are lusty fellows, fresh complexioned, cleanly, and well cloathed; but the labourers in Scotland are generally lank, lean, hard-featured, sallow, soiled, and shabby, and their little pinched blue caps have a beggarly effect. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
It has a shorter, more abrupt mould-board, which breaks the furrow but does not bury rubbish so cleanly.
Tissue, blood vessels and the spinal cord need to be cleanly cut to make reattachment easier. The Sun
Both additives increase the oxygen content of the gasoline which causes it to burn more cleanly and evaporate more slowly.
The plate broke cleanly in half.
This makes it easy to measure and tip cleanly into an empty sprayer. The Sun
A massive PR program is being pushed to convince the public that this can be done "cleanly" and that coal gasoline and tar sand syncrude are in reality, "clean energy sources". RealClimate
Natural gas burns more cleanly than other fossil fuels. Times, Sunday Times
She won 60 of those matches by tossing rivals cleanly onto their backs or holding them down for 30 seconds -- an ippon gachi or "" total victory. '' Good As Gold
Spent casings were ejected cleanly and unmarred.
If taking a fish for the pot then it should be killed quickly and cleanly with a priest or knife then bagged out of sight.
The only sensible solution is to complete the changeover to metric, and as swiftly and cleanly as possible.
Tips For a more elegant presentation, buy your lamb rack frenched, meaning the meat and fat are cut cleanly away from the rib ends. Chicagotribune.com -
He cleanly erased every single mark on my worksheet.
The branch snapped cleanly in two.
Tommy raced to shortstop and fielded the first ball cleanly but was so amped up that he airmailed his throw over first base and into the stands. Parents Behaving Badly
The panel in question appears to have been ripped away cleanly by the passage of the wind over the skin of the aircraft. Times, Sunday Times
The sushi had precisely the right proportion of cleanly cut fish to perfectly textured rice. Times, Sunday Times
You show them how to burn coal cleanly... and they say it will give us all cancer. The Sun
This example shows that environmental factors can not be cleanly isolated from biological ones.
The oil mixed with the fuel doesn't burn cleanly.
Across the country, farm manure and kitchen garbage are delivered to biogas plants that produce uniform fertilizer and a methane fuel burned cleanly at power plants.
Cut the stem cleanly, just beneath a leaf joint.
With due speed, German industrialists were required to design and produce ovens and gas chambers that would enable the mass murders to be carried out quickly and cleanly without involving German personnel too much.
cleanly in their persons and habitations
I struck the ball cleanly and my shot was on target.
Fergie spins on a sixpence and unleashes a ferocious right hook, which connects cleanly with Fowler's jaw, sending him flying into the crowd.
These are a revelation: virtually weightless, plain cylinders that dispense their deliciously light, hydrous formulations cleanly and efficiently.
It lifts hairs away from the skin before cleanly cutting them, to also features a pop out trimmer, to tackle sideburns and moustaches. Times, Sunday Times
The song picks up for its coda, breaking into a steady waltz beneath cleanly strummed guitars and theremin.
He was in the common garb of a traveller, cleanly and genteely equipt; his beard had vanished; his hair was dressed with some attention to the mode; and what particularly made him quite irrecognisable was, that in his countenance the look of age was no longer visible. Chapter X. Book VIII
Everyone wants to win the race and to win it cleanly. Times, Sunday Times
Stretches of "tule" land fertilized by its once regular channel and dotted by flourishing ranchos are now cleanly erased. Selected Stories of Bret Harte
His voice retains its evenness in all registers, and he cleanly articulates Vivaldi's most difficult runs and fioriture.
Moving up is harder in a different way because the lesser language often hides abstractions that are directly expressible in the higher (a complicated nest of for next lops. ifs and assignments may (in the end) decompose cleanly into sequence ops in haskell but it is sometimes difficult to see and/or extract those). Archive 2009-05-01
We all like having cleanly laundered clothes and access to round-the-clock take-out food.
However, when the chordal melody is doubled in both hands, the left-hand part can be difficult to navigate cleanly.
Not many people can strike it as cleanly as that. Times, Sunday Times
Joseph cleans cleanly a cave, makes a bed with the hay lets Masurium Advantage rest.
Looking up and down the short hallway, Virginia saw the sight of the large, uncleanly crewmen celebrating an unknown occasion with large mugs of ale.
And I don't think he connects cleanly. Times, Sunday Times
And then, as he leaped cleanly and well, one lone rifle barked from the pit, and he doubled up in mid-air, struck the ground in a ball, and like a teal The Sunlanders
The only negative thing about these cookie cutters is that, since the designs are stamped down into rolled-out dough, it can be difficult to get the cookie out cleanly. Twist And Press Robot Cookie Cutters | Baking Bites
As such, sound recordists use shotgun microphones to eliminate any other noise on the set and capture the actors' voices alone, as cleanly as possible.
A little tip for the wise if you're ever in a similar situation: it's pretty much impossible to projectile vomit into a 20 ounce soda bottle cleanly.
The donating process is done very cleanly and hygienically.
However, when the chordal melody is doubled in both hands, the left-hand part can be difficult to navigate cleanly.
By the time I had got down to the causeway it stood cleanly cut against a speedwell-blue streak of sky.
Residents worry that they will be further harmed when coal and coke (which don't burn as cleanly as natural gas) are added to the mix of emissions and dust that already plague the area.
But Lynas does not see it that way: the real-world result of defeating the wind farm is that the electricity that would have been generated cleanly from the wind will now be generated using conventional means - a mixture of coal and gas. Archive 2008-04-01
I think we will certainly see cleaner coal technologies and there are tremendous amounts of research demonstration models of how you can burn coal more cleanly.
It is, in fact, a point of honour with young Heathcliff to be uncleanly.
He made his biggest save while flat on his back with about 8 minutes left, somehow looking up quickly enough to glove Boyle's shot cleanly from a prone position. USATODAY.com
In places the upright thrusts of the mountains rose from the grassland floor as cleanly as the front of a corncrib meets a level floor: one could almost mark with a pencil where the plain stopped and the slope began. Son of a Witch
Ward is a 12-stone Mayweather, almost impossible to hit cleanly and hurtfully accurate in reply. Andre Ward beats Carl Froch into a distant second place | Kevin Mitchell
The commentary that accompanies the ads is eye opening, cleanly written and well-informed without being overbearingly insiderish.
They went straight at the hole, catching the ball cleanly and counting on backspin to stop the ball very close to where it landed.
Mounted close to the wing on modified bomb racks, the tanks caused buffeting and, even more seriously, would not separate cleanly in the event they were dropped.
The results move straight into a very tidy profit and loss account, balance sheet and cash flow statement, followed by cleanly presented notes.
Cut the stem cleanly, just beneath a leaf joint.
His voice retains its evenness in all registers, and he cleanly articulates Vivaldi's most difficult runs and fioriture.
I took out a four wood, teed up a ball between the wooden slats of the platform and hit it cleanly over the hoardings and apartment building rooftops and into the baseball park.
Borel emphasizes the importance of having his mount break cleanly from the starting gate — along with 19 other horses — then avoiding the bumping and jostling for position that regularly occurs into the first turn. Kentucky Derby represents a 'humbling, challenging race'
The Croatian failed to connect cleanly with another chance that would have settled matters. Times, Sunday Times
The idea was to rationalize and redefine retailing by distributing goods in a cultivated manner: efficiently, honestly, and cleanly.
And then, as he leaped cleanly and well, one lone rifle barked from the pit, and he doubled up in mid-air, struck the ground in a ball, and like a ball bounced from the impact, and came down in a broken heap. THE SUNLANDERS
Stained glass can be cut using a specialty glass cutter tool and flat pliers to break the glass cleanly.
This hideous circle never widened; Nature always appeared to roll back the intruding debris; no bird nor beast carried it away; no animal ever forced the uncleanly barrier; civilization remained grimly trenched in its own exuvia. Colonel Starbottle's Client
The front wheels bite cleanly into the road, and you can power out of corners with that balanced, slingshot feeling only a powerful rear-wheel drive car can give.
Masking tape takes ages to apply, it never comes off cleanly and it doesn't even mask off wet paint effectively.
the motor burns cleanly
He accordingly has difficulty executing his runs cleanly.
Elias beat goalie Dany Sabourin cleanly off Brian Gionta's cross-ice pass as Sergei Brylin cut down the middle, forcing Sabourin to defend against two potential shooters. USATODAY.com - Hockey - New Jersey vs. Pittsburgh
Lastly, a cleanly delineated arrow shows the way, forcefully directing the view diagonally across the picture surface in a delicate balance between lyricism and hard-edged abstraction.
Lock Lee Evans scored the try of the match from a line-out 15 metres out when he caught the ball cleanly spun to his left and with good back-up surged through for the line.
Visibly tired after being on the ice for 1 1/2 minutes of a power play, Malkin swooped in from center ice after two Flyers collided in their own end, grabbed the puck and beat goalie Martin Biron cleanly on a wrist shot. USATODAY.com
If they manage to cleanly catch a six with one hand in the crowd, they can cash in on the prize. Times, Sunday Times
Hydrogen burns cleanly, yielding just water and energy.
Without a second thought he tossed it over his shoulder into the fire behind him, where it burned fairly cleanly with a yellow flame.
With a faceoff to the right of Miller, Sundin cleanly beat Buffalo's Clarke MacArthur, drawing the puck back to McCabe 10 feet inside the blueline in the middle of the ice. USATODAY.com - Hockey - Toronto vs. Buffalo
“The piece he stepped on, from an old malt liquor bottle, was as jagged as the French Alps, the round base of the bottle forming a perfect support for the protrusion ... it went into his heel cleanly, cutting firmly into the hard pad, opening a wound that sent him falling sideways.” 2010 March 27 « The BookBanter Blog
If you get a hangnail, cut it cleanly with a cuticle scissor, but don't pick at it. Protecting the health of your nails for a polished look
The peak torque of 200Nm occurs at 1500 rpm, and it will pull cleanly from 1200 rpm or so, whereas the PSA HDi unit would hunt and demand a downshift.
He had cleanly cut virtually black hair, and though he did not boast the same striking attractiveness as Adam did, was fairly handsome himself.
Delicate keyboard work intermeshes cleanly with heavy and crunchy guitar.
A full quarter of the hindward whorl was gone, sliced off cleanly. The Moon Pool
The gas is collected and because it is methane, it burns cleanly.
The official rationale behind this policy is that alcohol burns more cleanly than pure gasoline, which supposedly means less air pollution.
When he's on the net, he can beat goalies cleanly from the blue line. New group is ready to take hardest shots
Natural gas burns more cleanly than other fossil fuels. Times, Sunday Times
The wounds may heal cleanly or they may ooze a clear liquid.
Our binmen have worked efficiently and cleanly over the years but the last few weeks have been a shambles as the new system gets under way.
Aside from adding extra pressure, focusing on the outcome while you play can help you execute your shot cleanly and smoothly.
The people are cleanly; they wash when rising, and before as well as after every meal; they are always bathing, yet from prince to pauper, from baby to grey beard, they are affected with a psora known by its Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
Natural gas burns more cleanly than other fossil fuels. Times, Sunday Times
In this instance, technology lies and it ought not to be used to determine whether a catch has been taken cleanly. Times, Sunday Times
He dived in cleanly, entering the water in a straight line.
The wounds may heal cleanly or they may ooze a clear liquid.
Ethanol adds oxygen to gasoline, helping it to burn more cleanly.
The animal's body had been truncated cleanly just in front of its haunches.
Then he dragged out a small knife and began cleanly butchering the deer.
The improved draft system, utilizing a glass chimney, yielded a brighter light that burned more cleanly.
Then followed cleanly tailored shift dresses with a '60s feel in pistachio, baby pink, acid yellow and pale peach, while details such as jewelled collars added glamour. Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
I tried out the chocolate cake recipe, which produced a pleasant, rather sweet cake, which cut cleanly and was still good to eat a couple of days later.
The election campaign was not conducted very cleanly.
He has cleared the first obstacle cleanly but knows others will present greater problems.
The idea was to rationalize and redefine retailing by distributing goods in a cultivated manner: efficiently, honestly, and cleanly.
Wood boring bits have a spur to cut the fibres cleanly and a centre point to pull the bit into the wood. Technology Basic Facts
He keeps things simple compared to the more garrulous contributions of his bandmates, opting for cleanly articulated line rather than a thick spattering of notes.
Cut them off cleanly through the stem just below the node.
Natural gas burns more cleanly than other fossil fuels. Times, Sunday Times
More expensive items in the same range should be finely knotted and possess cleanly articulated and symmetrically arranged decorative forms.
In contemporary popular cinema, it is virtually impossible to cleanly demarcate the genres of horror and thriller.
Although the Australian then failed to connect cleanly, his streaky shot still managed to sneak in at the near post.
He could not repeat his Bristol explosiveness, with the slower, variable bounce upsetting his ability to hit cleanly.
A few other firsts that occurred that night; Hogan lost cleanly for the first time in about eight years.
That porous layer, which contains stabilized zirconia and small amounts of the metals ruthenium and cerium, chemically and cleanly converts the fuel to hydrogen.
This was hailed as a grand opportunity to reshape the legal framework in a consensual manner and to break cleanly from the past, but the governing conservative party passed the constitution through Parliament without the consent of any of the opposition parties (including the Centre Union, the Socialist, or Communist Party). back Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
A solid wood stem and mahogany floors and stiffeners complete the basic construction which has been particularly cleanly executed by West Custom.
Once on a time it had been regularly calcimined, twice a year, or three times, but it had been many years now since it had undergone this cleanly process. The Way of the Wind
Cut it as cleanly and as close to square as possible.
I. ii.123 (266,6) [We must be neat] Leontes, seeing his son's nose smutched, cries, _We must be neat_, then recollecting that _neat_ is the term for _horned_ cattle, he says, _not neat, but cleanly_. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
While Stybar and Aernouts, frequent training partners and neighbors in Essen in northern Belgium, cooperated to stretch their lead early in the race, the real drama of the day was unfolding behind them. 2009 world champion Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus), in his first start of the season after struggling with both illness and injury, found himself gapped after failing to cleanly negotiate the first turn of the race. Stybar leads Superprestige after win in Ruddervoorde
he bounced it cleanly off the wall
A solid wood stem and mahogany floors and stiffeners complete the basic construction which has been particularly cleanly executed by West Custom.
But this system cleanly uses, the effective electrical energy, deeply user affection.
Adjust the expander die to bell the mouth just enough to allow a bullet to start cleanly and case life will be extended considerably.
The Book cleanly addresses your lifetime of questions with no philosophical gaps or loose threads. Times, Sunday Times
I struck the ball cleanly and my shot was on target.
Timothy Myers, Maazel's associate conductor for this festival, handled the rhythmic intricacies of the Dukas "Sorcerer's Apprentice" cleanly but got to its energetic climax so quickly that it seemed to hang there with nowhere to go. Young Castleton orchestra shows its true colors
The War Memorial is cleanly maintained with cut lawns and seats in the surrounding small park.
The rifle sent forth an azure beam of energy that pierced the hologram cleanly where the reticle had been; the target disappeared and registered a hit.
Replays showed Jayawardene took the low catch on the half-volley and home umpire Asoka de Silva referred to square-leg colleague Dave Orchard to query whether the catch had been taken cleanly.
That is because coal prices have remained stable while oil and gas prices have trebled in just over a year, and the technology has been developed to burn it much more cleanly than in the past.
A formidable array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell of hydro - chloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the chemical work which was so dear to him. Sole Music
But we are sitting on rich and unexploited seams of coal, much of which would burn cleanly. The Sun
It is commonly held that the location on the ballot most difficult to punch cleanly is the four corners of the ballot.
Repton substituted ornamental gardens for ‘the uncleanly, pathless grass of a forest, filled with troublesome animals of every kind, and some occasionally dangerous.’
If masking tape is used along the sides of the joint, make sure the tape is removed immediately after tooling is complete before the caulk skins over so that it will pull away cleanly and leave a smooth, even line.
Because hydrogen contains no carbon, it burns cleanly without a residue of hot soot, producing little radiant energy.
It burns more cleanly than petroleum-based diesel, and also has higher lubricity and detergent properties.
Jackson was quick out of his blocks and, unlike the Commonwealth Games final where he clattered the first barrier and wrecked his gold chances, he was cleanly into the race.
A good butchering job of a cleanly killed deer should yield about 45 to 50 percent of the field-dressed weight in boneless, lean meat. Field and Stream Presents Deer Facts with Dr. Karl V.
It should come away cleanly at the base. Times, Sunday Times
Through aisle to hatch, the cleanly wind with ocean special gamey smell blowing my face, spirit got up. Looking up at the hatch, sun is too big, sky is too blue.
The piece as translated is clearly and cleanly paragraphed -- it looks like it is all one passage -- and there is no indication given anywhere on the website or in the article that the paragraph that so confused me is actually a composite of two completely different paragraphs located on two different pages. More on Chen the Splittist Paragraph in FT
This has some exotic but cleanly presented fruit on the nose, dark, confit berries as you might expect.
Cut the stem cleanly, just beneath a leaf joint.
I'm calling Regin's third period goal soft - he was out near the blue line and beat Fleury cleanly without any screen I can remember. Igloo Dreams
Again, recuperative powers allowed him to box cleanly and win the round.
Leather punches are ultra-sharp, will cut cleanly through heavy fabric and are available in a variety of shapes and sizes.
To my left was a 60s building playing resigned host to the department of philosophy and every exasperating quibble and inconsequentiality it expostulated, and up further along the rawboned green breast was a business school erected in crisp glass and cleanly sectioned stone with marble facades. Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri
Judges not only made assessments on flavor, but also on the appearance of the entremets, as well as how cleanly they were sliced and presented. Regina Varolli: The Sweet Side of StarChefs.com International Chefs Congress
That move was intended to split Britain's donation of aid cleanly away from its other foreign policy objectives. Times, Sunday Times
It was a competent address, cleanly delivered, but it was hardly an exercise in high octane oratory.
These can power petrol, diesel and gas turbine engines more cleanly than existing petroleum fuels. Times, Sunday Times
For some reason, which no one can prove to my knowledge, when black powder is trickled into the cartridge case through a drop tube it burns more cleanly.
Now Mr. Dubus chronicles the desperation of his own hardscrabble upbringing in the post-industrial mill towns of Massachusetts, where he brawled away his youth before he realized that a well-turned sentence offered more satisfaction than a cleanly landed right cross. Bareknuckle Beginnings
And when Sir Palomides was come to the city they made passing great joy of him, and then they beheld him, and saw that he was well made, cleanly and bigly, and unmaimed of his limbs, and neither too young nor too old. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
British coal could be burned more cleanly, but only in a new generation of power stations, which would cost millions to develop and take years to come on stream.
He was a stalwart young fellow, broad-shouldered, deep-chested, legs cleanly built and stretched wide apart, and tall though Imber was, he towered above him by half a head. THE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MEN
She found a weapon that would cut him down quickly and cleanly.
As enlightened artists of all types will attest, it's harder to draw simply, to play slowly, to move cleanly, than to mire things in complexity.
Sugaring helps remove hair cleanly with less breakage or re-growth compared to other methods of hair removal.
With the crumbs secured, your final layer of frosting will glide on smoothly and cleanly, without picking up a single crumb from the cake itself. What is a crumb coat? | Baking Bites
Its upright riding position gave good visibility, its engine pulled cleanly from low revs and its wide bars made it easy to flick through the traffic. Times, Sunday Times

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