How To Use Clear up In A Sentence

For the rest of us, it has been six months of adjustment to a new family situation, tough occasionally but generally an improvement: far fewer messes to clear up, no constant vigilance on the bathroom and kitchen, much greater freedom for us to go on family outings (most often, of course, to see B up in Limburg). Six months on
You're so good with people today and clear up any kind of misunderstanding - and then get on with enjoying all the festivities. The Sun
I played with my dessertspoon as the others began to clear up, my conversation with Chase echoing through my head.
The women want to heroize you, but I had to see you first, to clear up a few things. Children of the Lens
The rules allow state lawmakers to clear up a mishap if they suffered from a momentary case of stumbly fingers or a lapse in attention. Report: Obama Involved In 1996 Liberal Questionnaire, Despite Campaign's Denials

The really scary part is that, while all these symptoms can clear up by themselves, the disease can lie dormant in your system for decades before damaging vitals such as your nervous system and heart.
There's a lot of mess to clear up.
It'll only take a little while to clear up the kitchen.
They always clear up their bedrooms before they go out.
The hydrographical work in the Weddell Sea has done much to clear up the mystery of this, the least known of all the seas. South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917
We'll have to clear up the rubble and put up a tent. Times, Sunday Times
Your job is to clear up, first to saw those branches up, to rid all major branches of smaller branches.
The Prime Minister's official spokesman was forced to clear up the mess.
Last time I had my teeth cleaned during my regular visit, I had a lot of nasty staining (apparently brought on by a change in caffeinated beverage type, no names because I need some evidence-based testing on that) that I was not able to clear up at home. Is Tooth Cleaning a Scam? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
They had marshalled an armada of 1000 boats and a squadron of 70 aircraft to help clear up the oil.
The army are helping to clear up after the floods.
If you are worried that the warts are unsightly, see your GP about treatment options to help them to clear up more quickly.
There's a modicum of spottiness and film grain at the very beginning of the first reel, but things clear up quite nicely thereafter.
They always clear up their bedrooms before they go out.
I remember November 5, 1953, when a tendency to clear up had rather a disastrous consequence.
Antibiotics should be used to clear up the infection.
Does this clear up all the difficulty, and do you see that I never dreamed of 'reproaching you for dealing out one sort of cards to me and everybody else' ” but that ... why, 'that' which I have, I hope, said, so need not resay. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
Then clear up the misunderstanding explaining why it is unlikely that most women would bulk up or develop large muscles like some men who train with weights.
We have to clear up the terrible mess he left behind. The Sun
A fun, creative period is on its way, so use this positive energy to clear up any recent hiccups with lovers. The Sun
Forecasters are anticipating a good September so maybe we will have another month or so before the autumn clear up begins.
Antibiotics such as tetracycline and streptomycin clear up a case in a few days. The Plaque Of Panic
The government needs to clear up the confusion surrounding its policy on water.
Tatiana opened her mouth and--- "Fine," snapped Zoe, "we'll clear up. THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
There are three explanations as to why dog owners are reluctant to clear up their dogs' faeces.
He made a rather half-hearted attempt to clear up the rubbish.
And it wants to remind dog owners that it is an offence not to clear up after their pets and dog dirt is dangerous for children who may come into contact with it.
In hospital, painkillers and broad-spectrum antibiotics are given to clear up the infection.
The army are helping to clear up after the floods.
Can you stay behind after the others have gone and help me clear up?
President Bartlet, played by Martin Sheen, rebuts, Well, first of all, let's clear up a couple of things. Bob Cesca: Tea Party Republican Governors Embrace Socialism
The antibiotics should clear up the infection.
To clear up blemishes, dab an astringent facial toner on acne spots.
4 March 2010 at 12: 52 pm its so nice to know that while we are over here biting our nails waiting on all this turmoil at Summit to clear up … that David slade is painting and decorating! Twilight Lexicon » David Slade Gets Artistic
A fun, creative period is on its way, so use this positive energy to clear up any recent hiccups with lovers. The Sun
Usually, the congestion, runny nose, and nosebleeds that occur during pregnancy clear up shortly after delivery.
I've revised this post to clear up solecisms and misspellings, and added one link for clarity.
But White missed the vital brown and Pinches held his nerve to clear up to the pink and claim the biggest win of his life.
Hopefully it'll clear up and he'll get full use of his tail back, but there is a possibility that he may have to have his tail docked at the point where it is injured.
After a lengthy and difficult approval process, Seymour has obtained permission to clear up to 450 lineal feet of vegetation along any portion of the creek.
Okay children, we'll clear up the room now.
The enormous pile of soil and waste below the terrace has now been there for two years as well, with no signs of any effort to clear up the mess.
Sorry the place is so messy, I haven't had time to clear up.
One point to clear up immediately is the widespread confusion between wrongful dismissal and unfair dismissal.
Take your air gun and fire it at a target 50 times to clear up residual oil in the chamber.
You can clear up misunderstandings, soothe emotions and ensure jealousy plays no part in family relationships. The Sun
He said Nick had viral labyrinthitis, and that the condition would clear up in a few weeks. Diagnosing Nick
He said: 'It does clear up the situation. Times, Sunday Times
Can you stay behind after the others have gone and help me clear up?
White calla lily with a fresh, elegant calla lily, is the admiration and favorite pass, so feel feel a light and clear up!
If Namibia was a real constitutional democracy, President Nujoma should have been called to clear up scandals, fiascos and debacles that have characterized, mainly, the last five years of his rule.
I'm fully occupied these days. I still have lots of work to clear up by the weekend.
He made a rather half-hearted attempt to clear up the rubbish.
I haven't had time to clear up, so I'm all at sixes and sevens.
They now face the prospect of having to clear up their home for a second time when the floods eventually go down.
We'll have to clear up all this clutter.
Some motorway blackspots are known as ‘the sleepy corridor’ and ‘the nod-off zone’ by traffic police who have to clear up the carnage caused by dozy drivers.
He said: 'It does clear up the situation. Times, Sunday Times
Clear up the mess in here before you go.
As she helped clear up the mess, she felt a heavy thud on her upper back. The Sun
He was an enormous man, capable of firing an automatic rifle with only one hand or lifting me clear up off the ground.
One point to clear up immediately is the widespread confusion between wrongful dismissal and unfair dismissal.
I wanted to clear up the rumors of us fighting with each other or hating each other.
I'm fully occupied these days. I still have lots of work to clear up by the weekend.
He said: 'It does clear up the situation. Times, Sunday Times
The leukoplakia patches usually clear up a few weeks to months after the source of irritation has been taken away.
He made a rather half-hearted attempt to clear up the rubbish.
If the trouble doesn't clear up in another four days I shall have to go and get the ear syringed, I know that.
The incidents happened just hours after the fire brigade helped residents clear up the estate in the hope of removing flammable materials.
Householders and businesses suffered months of heartache and misery as they battled to clear up the mess and make their premises habitable again.
If signals from both the EMA and the MACD histogram point in the same direction, both inertia and momentum are working together toward clear uptrends or downtrends.
Tauseef Mustafa/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Several projects have been launched to clear up the lakes and Jhelum River. Tourism Boom in Kashmir
The government needs to clear up the confusion surrounding its policy on water.
We'll have to clear up all this clutter.
He said: 'It does clear up the situation. Times, Sunday Times
Look, do me a favour, give me a hand to clear up your dirty dishes and forget the dramatics. No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
The injury proved to be far worse than first thought and following surgery it emerged that Rosicky had a problem with his hamstring tendon and needed a metal screw inserted to clear up the pain.
Instead he is unable to clear up suspicions that he embezzled funds and wired large sums of money to the US.
Encourage people to make up totally false rumors (make sure that's clear up-front, that it's all in fun) about Blogosphere all-stars.
If the condition does not clear up after treatment by traditional antibiotics, your doctor may prescribe stronger variations such as quinolene, ceftriaxone, cefotaxime or spectinomycin.
A long-running deadlock over who should clear up an unauthorised tip in Derbyshire has finally been broken.
If antibiotics are likely to clear up the infection, why are we having this long discussion?
I think the trouble will clear up in a couple of days.
Shall we clear up before we go out?
They cost 7m a year to clear up and many are collected unused. Times, Sunday Times
The army are helping to clear up after the floods.
A fun, creative period is on its way, so use this positive energy to clear up any recent hiccups with lovers. The Sun
She said that he could clear up the matter by releasing the necessary information and that the onus was on him to do so quickly.
When you finish your dinner, please clear up the kitchen.
As each day brings yet another piece of evidence to demonstrate their incompetence, people sit there open-mouthed that they have the effrontery to claim they are ‘dealing’ with whatever the latest foul-up is, that yet another ‘review’ is to take place (everyone now understands that to mean ‘kick into the long grass’), that lessons will be learnt and that such and such a nincompoop is a fit and proper person to clear up the mess he or she has created. McBlackadder The Dancing Bear
Can you stay behind after the others have gone and help me clear up?
The government needs to clear up the confusion surrounding its policy on water.
Such a factor, however, cannot be introduced, or re-introduced, into our theological thinking without necessitating a good deal of revision, nor without causing a certain measure of temporary confusion and dislocation; it will accordingly be the principal object of the following chapters to clear up misapprehensions which have arisen in connection with the idea of immanence, to assign to it its approximately proper place in Christian thought, and to safeguard an important truth against the injury done to it -- and {22} so to all truth -- by a zeal that is not according to knowledge. Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive
We'll have to clear up all this clutter.
They always clear up their bedrooms before they go out.
We were all in fits of laughter trying to clear up the mess.
If we want to change this situation, we should clear up the abstract character and solipsism of pedagogy knowledge and pay attention to richer and more colorful educational practice.
actually, we all help clear up after a meal
I had a chance again in the last frame as well and felt like I was going to clear up, but I missed a yellow.
Let me, at this point, clear up one gross distortion that many pastors have. Christianity Today
The building was evacuated as two teams of two fire fighters entered the building to clear up the spillage and ventilate the factory.
When you finish your dinner, please clear up the kitchen.
Colonel Lewis B. " Chesty " Puller, the regimental commander of the 1st Marines, left late that afternoon by rail with the 2d Battalion, 1st Marines, "to clear up the situation.
Residents also use the property's garden as a dumping ground for rubbish and council officers had to visit regularly to clear up dumped furniture including a fridge and a three-piece suite.
Now, in order to clear up some concepts, I want to tell you that when the term conventional tons of fuel is used -- sometimes the terms tons of petroleum and conventional tons are used in order for the public to understand the terns the same way all of us learned them in order to understand what a conventional ton meant -- it means 100,300 kilocalories. FIRST ENERGY FORMU
This line shows a clear upward trend, as the firm's business grows. Principles of Corporate Finance
I'm fully occupied these days. I still have lots of work to clear up by the weekend.
When these two collided, you almost needed a crane to clear up the mess. Times, Sunday Times
Most people are amazed to hear that standard winter coughs often take three weeks to clear up. The Sun
It prompted that deep look at the so called Death-gene (the gene postulated by natural science as a hygienic purification agent, against cancer and so forth; As a stratagem to let life reach the point where it would no longer be necessary, like the pretty Jacobian praxis lived out by Robespierre, if we may risk confusion between mode and content of exposition, but clear up the problems yourselves). The Pulse-Soldier
Would you clear up this room before our visitors arrive?
Men in hard hats operating diggers are slogging over the summer to clear up the contaminated field in time for the start of the new term, in a project costing £500,000.
Sorry the place is so messy, I haven't had time to clear up.
Antibiotics should be used to clear up the infection.
Antibiotics should be used to clear up the infection.
Always clear up after a fireworks party - litter is hazardous to domestic and wild animals.
The Director didn't stand on her dignity; she helped clear up after the party.
It took a long time to remove all the equipment and clear up and restack the room. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
My ex just leaves an emotional mess for others to clear up. The Sun
Although we had express checkout, I had some small matter to clear up with the front desk.
Janet remembers being told to clear up her bedroom, knee-deep in discarded clothes. Mrs. Miniver
We'll have to clear up all this clutter.
Aside from one or two niggles, which are expected to clear up in time, Kay is looking at a fairly healthy squad which he is hoping will have benefited from two heavy training sessions during the festive period.
Most people are amazed to hear that standard winter coughs often take three weeks to clear up. The Sun
I remember November 5, 1953, when a tendency to clear up had rather a disastrous consequence.
This is an area which seems to have many loose dogs about and I suppose they cannot be expected to clear up after themselves.
One issue he did clear up was the identity of the "tailleur" which appeared in some of the state's documents. ANC Daily News Briefing
This herbal medicine will soon clear up your cold.
They clear up the dishes in the kitchen while the rest of the family is out in the dooryard.
Towards the end of the time that I was spraying with Metasystox, I began to feel queasy, a bit sick and would be starting a headache which became very bad and which, even after taking paracetamol would not clear up.
Can you stay behind after the others have gone and help me clear up?
I'd like to clear up my work by the weekend.
The rhizome is covered by an epidermis, composed of muriform cells of a bright yellow color, after having been treated with liquor potassæ to clear up the tissues. Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885
There are a couple of points we need to clear up before the meeting begins.
ZANESVILLE -- Firefighters Local 88 President Trevor Meek met with city officials earlier last week to clear up what he called incorrect or misleading information about the union. Zanesvilletimesrecorder.com - Local News
In occurrences like this there are always circumstances involving difficulty which a full narration of details would satisfactorily clear up.
Can you stay behind after the others have gone and help me clear up?
Maybe one day the good will rise up against the bad and then there will be an unholy mess to clear up. The Sun
Despite the political uncertainty created by the dissolution of Parliament and the usual market fluctuations, stock prices have maintained a clear uptrend in 1999.
As she helped clear up the mess, she felt a heavy thud on her upper back. The Sun
United by a rivalry which would have divided less noble minds, these two great chemists carried on together their researches in chemistry, and joined their forces to clear up points still obscure in the history of boron, silicium, and the metals of the platinum group, and remained closely united, which each year only strengthened. Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882
One point to clear up immediately is the widespread confusion between wrongful dismissal and unfair dismissal.
Why is it that it always has to rain when I take the kids to and from school and then clear up straight afterwards.
It took a long time to remove all the equipment and clear up and restack the room. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
This was partly due to a growing disinclination to lock up convicted offenders, and partly to the decreasing ability of the police to clear up crimes.
This should clear up whether they are racist or merely 'legalist'. Half Million Rally Against Anti-Foreign Bias, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Woods also chose China to clear up his views on the levels of animosity creeping into the Ryder Cup, claiming that gamesmanship made it not as much fun as the Presidents Cup between the United States and a team of internationals.
Clear up the question of who is at fault
Why did you not immediately rebut the accusations and clear up the misunderstanding?
A session in the eucalyptus-scented steam room after the swim will help unclog pores, clear up the sinuses and begin their detox.
Some test levels ive seen here are not even too high as they can peak at 1000 ng/dl nanograms per decilitre the best thing to do is stick it out until your levels become stable and you will clear up. Accutane and Testosterone
While the effects of red tide on humans can be rather severe, the more milder complications usually clear up about 24 hours after exposure to the blooms is discontinued. Archive 2004-10-01
The Director didn't stand on her dignity; she helped clear up after the party.
Elected officials also had to clear up deliberately blocked toilets as the floors flooded with urine.
A fun, creative period is on its way, so use this positive energy to clear up any recent hiccups with lovers. The Sun
He said: 'It does clear up the situation. Times, Sunday Times
When these two collided, you almost needed a crane to clear up the mess. Times, Sunday Times
I think the trouble will clear up in a couple of days.
Often Munro is historical and modern simultaneously, as in her depiction of the doctor who treats the nineteenth-century frontier "poetess": "He believes that her troubles would clear up if she got married. A Quiet Genius
They all went out, leaving yours truly to clear up the mess.
Shall we clear up before we go out?
We'll have to clear up all this clutter.
Let a man sail along the Leinster coast on such a day as renders the Wicklow Mountains clear up-weather behind him, and the Mourne Mountains perhaps in storm, lifted clearly above the sea down the wind. First and Last
I made it, I cooked it, and dished up, you can help clear up and pack the machine. FALLEN WOMEN
The eggs in dog mess are not infectious for at least two weeks and there is no risk for the owners who clear up straight away.
We were all in fits of laughter trying to clear up the mess.

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