How To Use Clearing In A Sentence

A couple of weeks ago, while glassing four female Meneliks bushbuck two hundred yards away feeding in a tiny clearing during a pouring rain, a nice male stepped into view. Very Little Drops Dead
Over the winter months we've been doing a great deal of clearing up on our part-neglected croft garden, grubbing out and shredding dead shrubs and cutting back those that have either grown too large or are crowding others.
The orchestrated escort and the accompanying police violence in clearing the picket reflected the involvement of city based police, the local constabulary having been cooperative with the workers.
With the clearing of forests and the spread of farming, the cowbird's range expanded north and east.
Follow the river upstream from the weir for about two hundred yards and you will come to a clearing.

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I know exactly what you mean," Data said, clearing the evidence of last night's carousal into the recycler. The Beast That Resembles A Poem(A Handy Resource for Architects,Engineers, and Students)
A small deer stood on the edge of the clearing.
We rode into the clearing and the sound of the river rushing seemed almost unreal.
The fourth side of the clearing was sheer cliff drop, attended by a barrier of split rails.
Without any brief or instruction, the man had made his home in a clearing and even cultivated a small potato crop.
Councils spent 50 million on clearing the rubbish and 17 million on enforcement action. Times, Sunday Times
Whatever it was, another one stepped into the clearing, which was by now aglow with the light of both ethereal beings.
Some ingredients added to the water, e.g. menthol, eucalyptus, camphor, thymol and pine oil also give a sensation of clearing the passageways.
We would be grateful for your cooperation in clearing the hall as quickly as possible.
The key to productive disagreements is clearing the clutter from your communicationand not just when youre fighting. Enough Already
Police are now on the verge of allowing painters, plumbers, decorators and joiners into the house to begin clearing up and repairing fittings damaged during the extensive examination of the house.
The rhetor, for instance, would not imagine that he was clearing out a space in which he could express his thoughts and feelings.
We want to be of service to our community, to become a clearing house for newsy features of all aspects of living in Japan.
Outside the front door, a bulldozer is clearing up the mess caused when a heavily laden lorry crashed into the wall and gatepost.
The groundsmen were busy clearing every last flake of snow Inside the orchestra was practising in the ballroom; the photographers. WEB OF DREAMS
The journey was relatively silent, aside from the random clearing of throats.
Combining an imaging technique called multiphoton microscopy with "optical clearing," which uses a solution that renders tissue transparent, the researchers were able to scan mouse organs and create high-resolution images of the brain, small intestine, large intestine, kidney, lung and testicles. Innovations-report
Surely, something freakish would happen—a slow roller through the wickets, some fluke fly ball barely clearing the Green Monster, a sure groundout bouncing crazily around the infield—something confirming the Sox impending doom usually happened right about now. One Season
It wasn't the hours of toil, sweat and petrol clearing the footpath which concerned me, but the wasted wheat.
A group of men and women advanced cautiously into the clearing, covering the wounded with their slings, blowpipes, and bows.
He found the door slightly ajar, and pushed it on open, clearing his throat to warn the occupant of his entering, but Greg found the room empty.
Could it be that behind the sophomoric, mischievous, dismissive, even nihilistic style, Vice is the voice of a twenty-something generation clearing the decks for a new aesthetic?
The minehunters had been in the area clearing unexploded weapons, including mines, from the approaches to the port.
He gazed out into the sun-bathed crowd assembled in front of the stand in the clearing in Donadea forest.
The banks are able to transfer funds from one bank account to another by way of the clearing system. Business Studies Basic Facts
Either way, clearing out the house and helping to fix it up for a potential buyer is beyond me right now.
Emergency teams are still clearing the debris from the plane crash.
This was an event worthy of clearing my calendar and bearding the lioness in her den. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters
Bursting from the trees ahead of him, three black shapes came hurtling towards him over the pine needle floor of the clearing.
Stripping asbestos insulation off boilers and from fire barriers, decommissioning chemicals and munitions factories, making damaged nuclear reactors safe, and clearing landmines are examples.
McNamara explained that the defoliants would be used initially in road clearing because the chemicals presented a "ticklish" problem and road clearance offered the least potential trouble. Operation Ranch Hand
As such she acts as a de facto clearing house for much of the material brought forth from academia on the topic.
The two separated, moving to opposite ends of the clearing.
The clearing system, being nationwide and increasingly computerized, makes for a very efficient system of transmitting payments.
The maple that was red and purple is totally bare now, just across the clearing.
A fat bee bumbled past, hardly clearing the ground.
And already the site of the house is undiscoverable, the location of the stone walls may be deduced from the configuration of the landscape, and I am renewing the battle, putting in angora goats to browse away the brush that has overrun Haska's clearing and choked Haska's apple trees to death. Chapter 37
Second, linking logging of mature trees to clearing of underbrush is a policy non sequitur.
He was supposed to be keeping guard over his companions, resting in a clearing just beyond sight, but he couldn't concentrate.
They said certain funds could have been delayed by clearing banks and clearing houses. Times, Sunday Times
They were outside in the clearing in front of the fire below the waxing gibbous moon. THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
The last day was grim, with a succession of closeout sales clearing out all but the most shunned of merchandise.
They are all just clearing their throats at the same time! Times, Sunday Times
A reincorporation will allow MGEX to distribute exchange assets to members, including three buildings in downtown Minneapolis and the MGEX Clearinghouse, which matches and clears trades for all exchange activity, according to the exchange. Minneapolis Grain Exchange Gets For-Profit Conversion Approval
They were in a clearing in the middle of a seemingly endless forest.
Dudule infant Hotness Clearing Treasures helps mother carefully to protect the baby.
A megabase with three rings of security, Bagram serves as a kind of clearinghouse where troops are processed and then airlifted to their frontline positions. Life At Bagram
We finally got around to clearing out the garage.
The little clearing was shielded from the street by the laurels, and afforded him plenty of elbow room.
We already keep under review financial contributions to the support group, because clearing the arrears to the IFIs is absolutely critical.
But the lean-tos on the lake that first night were filled, so we just put in at a lake campsite, a small beach with a clearing on a hill immediately behind it.
Combining optical clearing with laser radiation could reduce the laser fluences required for a therapeutic effect.
That's the moment to be there, at the junctions, spinning in the clearing water.
Aislinn laughed in obvious glee and the merrymaking continued until Wulfgar rose, clearing his throat for attention. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
Shankland almost scored at the wrong end when his attempted clearing header thudded against Mitchell's bar and bounced to safety.
Greens climate change spokeswoman Senator Christine Milne said the land-use push appeared to be a repeat of a land-clearing "rort" won by Australia in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed
Residents of Barnoldswick were proving very efficient in clearing snow from the paths but their policy of throwing snow on to the roads caused a number of problems for milkmen and coalmen.
It wasn't the hours of toil, sweat and petrol clearing the footpath which concerned me, but the wasted wheat.
A tincture is made (H.) from the whole plant with spirit of wine, and this proves most useful for clearing obscuration of the sight, when there is a sense, especially in the open-air, of a white vibrating mist before the eyes; and therefore it has been given with marked success in early stages of amaurotic paralysis of the retina. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
They would then have to try and piece together how the tune may have sounded, based on the chords and on other bits of sheet music which they might have come across while clearing out dusty attics.
Homeowners are clearing away brush near their houses to prevent fires.
Places in clearing are expected to be limited and snapped up quickly. Times, Sunday Times
Clearing its electronic throat, the ship's communi-cator snapped him forcefully back from nebulous realms inhabited by memories of distant dreams and fading visitations. The Chronicles of Riddick
Clearing twisted a shoe on his way to the post and caused a 15-minute delay while a farrier made the repair.
Casper shook her head vigorously, clearing it of the fuzzy, heavy feeling that her tears had brought on.
A specific application that may benefit from the optical clearing technique is blood vessel photocoagulation.
After clearing out summer bedding, these can be planted up for a winter display.
As he was still moving, the SUV roared past, barely clearing his car.
The body of the men remained in the clearing, conversing in knots, while two miners, buirdly fellows, rather gruffer of tongue than the rest, went to the office to act as spokesmen. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time
After lunch there was a little more clearing up to do than usual.
CME is targeting the interest-rate swap market, estimated at more than $349 trillion in total size, as it broadens a range of clearinghouse functions for derivatives that are traded off-exchange. CME Group Begins Interest-Rate Swap Clearing Service
The by-product arsenic compound obtained by this method can be used as the clearing agent and decolorizer for the glass industry.
By the time I reached her home the cream was clearing the jar in lumps.
The clearing banks used to change their interest rates on advances and deposits automatically by the same amount that Bank rate changed.
Clearing weather the following day enabled planes to drop supplies.
The other way is via the clearing system. Times, Sunday Times
The hot bath soothed her aching body, clearing her head.
Two days later, as she was clearing out the car for a new windscreen, she discovered a two-and-half inch long, one-and-half inch diameter solid metal cylinder in the footwell of the passenger seat.
The signals will automatically respond to the jams and allocate the required time durations for clearing such traffic jams.
But the young man was prepared, and turning he ran with the swiftness of a hare toward the nearest tree, a huge, arboraceous fern towering upon the verge of the little clearing. The Eternal Savage
It isnt even an inch, but in this part of Oregon a slight dusting brings everything to a standstill as the one snowplow in the county gets busy clearing the roads. Excerpt: If I Stay by Gayle Forman
The England forwards were clinical in clearing out rucks. Times, Sunday Times
The plough has not yet reached Pongo-land; the only tools are the erem (little axe for felling), the matchet (a rude cutlass for clearing), the hoe, and a succedaneum for the dibble. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
The agency likes to call it "clearing hay from the haystack. Skipping the Line at Customs
His press became a clearing-house for ideas, and a moulder of taste.
Ranchers help prime the sprawling pastures by torching them to burn out prairie brush, clearing the way for stands of big bluestem and other grasses that are cheap cattle feed. Range Fires Ignite Dispute
His clothes, his beard, his very features have much the appearance that his house has, as if the owner of it were distant on another occupation, and the camise has regained a considerable portion of his clearing. Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy
Charities and human rights groups have accused the government and police of brutality in clearing the makeshift camps. Times, Sunday Times
‘Look around you - this is so wild! ‘she says, leading me into a sylvan clearing under a cedar tree.
The checks issued by Bank A are cleared at the clearing house through earmarking the checks issued by Bank B, and vice versa.
With any luck, clearing the worst away would bring natural economic forces into play.
Well, sure, he said, clearing his throat and giving off odd kinesic signals. Roadside Crosses
Mac snapped a small twig from a tree branch and began slowly wandering around the clearing, twisting the stick in his fingers.
Angioplasty is a popular procedure for clearing clogged arteries and veins, but it can also be risky.
Tonsillitis caused by streptococcal bacteria responds well to antibiotic treatment, clearing the infection more quickly than without treatment.
Clearing false alarms from, say, smoked salmon from the duty-free shop, may mean significant delays.
The large clearing was surrounding by the woods, creating a horseshoe shape.
Moving to the edge of the small clearing, I peered through the trees.
Hikers in the national forest who stumble into a clearing full of cannabis need to backtrack out very carefully; pot farms are often sown with mines.
I went to the farthest part of the site and joined a gang of brickies clearing up.
An ancient apple tree in the clearing has delicious, tart yellow apples of a long-lost variety.
The policy is less popular with builders because of the cost of clearing the land. Times, Sunday Times
He stayed single and spent his daylight hours clearing the land of manuka, fern and flax.
This winter, Jacob received another pleasant surprise - a snowplow clearing his street on the morning of the first snow.
Open market operations are made via the discount houses, but can also be conducted directly with the major clearing banks.
Purification is about clearing the path to our destination so we're free to enjoy the sights along our journey.
In a clearing between clouds we could see just ahead an area of large seracs where the shifting glacier had cleaved into blocks.
Objective: To explore the regulatory effect of clearing Heat secreting bile regulating Qi flow and activating blood circulation (CSRA) principle on cholecystokinin receptor (CCK R) and its mechanism.
As soon as Alex thought it was safe, he took Sara out in the piney woods north of town to a big clearing away from prying eyes where she could practice her flying.
From all appearances, it behooves me to be clearing out, ere the pent-up feelings of the people find vent in some aggressive manner, as a result of this person's incitant eloquence. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
Heavy machinery is used for clearing agave from the construction site. Heavy machinery is used for clearing agave from the construction site.© Norma Hawthorne 2008
On the other side is an adze for chopping steps and clearing rotten ice for screws.
The loss of algae-eating fish, such as parrotfish and surgeonfish, is worrying, says Paddack, because they help the reefs thrive by clearing away algae. Resilience Science
After clearing his head he stomped off to the staircase and mounted the stairs to his room.
His press became a clearing-house for ideas, and a moulder of taste.
Patients often initially present with the classic erythema migrans rash, a macular, erythematous, circular area with central clearing that expands around the site of the tick bite.
Macrophages in the starry sky pattern may be engaged in clearing lymphoma cells lytically infected with EBV.
At the end of at least twenty minutes of walking, we approach a clearing.
A bulldozer blade would be similarly effective today, for use in clearing rabble and barriers during urban movement.
One of the tribe's elders remembered the Yawalapiti village used to be in a forest clearing near the Tuatuari River.
She led him to a clearing where a group of shaman chanted around a fire writing strange symbols in the smoke.
When I arrive, I pitch my tent at the best of the 30 secluded spots: a little clearing by a bend in bubbling Long Creek hidden behind a grove of hemlocks and poplars - and a five-minute walk through the woods to the restaurant and lodge.
As the name "Mrs Durby" written in pencil did not furnish a clue to the owner, the ring was given into the charge of the custodier of the lost-luggage office, and a description of it with a note of all particulars regarding it, was forwarded to the Clearing-House in London. The Iron Horse
On a very low calorie diet the prisoners were forced to work all day either in a stone quarry or clearing timber. Times, Sunday Times
The forecasts call for clearing weather behind a midweek norther, but the impact from ‘inches within hours’ promises to linger.
It's set at a refugee camp on the border of Turkey and Iraq, where hordes of parentless children earn money clearing land mines.
And staff had to work around the clock clearing blocked loos. The Sun
The peasantry prospered by clearing land until the mid-ninth century, when it began to lose ground to its aristocratic neighbours, as land sales show.
In their civilian jobs, they work for a contractor clearing weapons ranges of unexploded munitions.
The engineer then described a gasoline tank truck that was not clearing the crossing ahead.
An hour or so before dusk, a big fat whitetail doe sauntered into the small clearing unaware of my presence as I was hidden from view by the ferns.
Adam nodded his acquiescence and stood to begin clearing the table in stony silence.
The old regime is clearing its tarnished reputation and preparing for power. Times, Sunday Times
Monks in the other sects either lived alone during the vassa, or they put up wherever they happened to be, sharing a forest clearing with ascetics who followed quite different dhammas. Buddha
Clearings exhibited large quantities of grapes that crept along from shrub to shrub, their huge bunches of fruit nearly touching the ground.
Looking back, there were probably hundreds of signs and symptoms along the way, but I was committed to being healthy, I exercised regularly, was a modified vegetarian, meditated and even owned a juice cleanse business, which was geared toward teaching women about clearing out toxins and rejuvenating the body. Pamela Serure: The Heart Of The Matter
There's no need to exhaust yourself clearing up-we'll do it.
The image will lighten considerably during clearing, but don't worry because all the lost density will return during toning and fixing.
To my left, rough sloping ground dropped away steeply to reveal a clearing several hundred yards below.
At the clearing house each is offset by the next.
Do not succumb to the temptation to reduce development time, stop time, or clearing time.
Soothing music and aroma therapies are helpful as well, choosing scents that are traditionally known to help negative energies to keep clearing: orange bergamot, camphor, clary sage, peppermint, clove bud and wintergreen are among these. Deepak Chopra: Breaking the Cycle of Anxiety
Emergency teams are still clearing the debris from the plane crash.
Without the advantage of mobile clearinghouse personnel, the majority of clearinghouses have no option but to adopt this method.
The other nine soldiers who had had nothing else to do had spent all day clearing out a strip of land for a runway.
Oh gods, oh gods, she repeated in her mind, just barely registering that she had almost made it out of the clearing and was running across the last stretch of gravel.
Weather Phenomenon Prior to the Passing of the Front Contact with the Front After the Passing of the Front Temperature Cool Warming suddenly Warmer then leveling off Atmospheric Pressure Decreasing steadily Leveling off Slight rise followed by a decrease Winds South to southeast Variable South to southwest Precipitation Showers, snow, sleet or drizzle Light drizzle None Clouds Cirrus, cirrostratus, altostratus, nimbostratus, and then stratus Stratus, sometimes cumulonimbus Clearing with scattered stratus, sometimes scattered cumulonimbus Air masses and frontal transitional zones
Each year, the Abstinence Clearinghouse devotes two hours of its annual conference to debunking a man whose fame and influence peaked generations ago.
A helicopter landed in a clearing in the dense jungle.
Perhaps Mr. Bush could just spend the rest of his term clearing brush on the ranch in Crawford. Judy Muller: The Decider To The Rescue
For Ms. Kornfeld, Pluto is round, has an atmosphere, has moons and has other planetlike characteristics, and she regards the condition about clearing the neighborhood around its orbit as silliness. TierneyLab
Everyone takes a share in clearing away the meal, doing the dishes and folding the washing.
The guttering to the front and rear roof slopes is blocked and leaking to joints and requires clearing and an overhaul.
He had walked into a clearing, where the remains of a circle of scorched tents stuck out like the ribs of an animal long dead.
A grand Royal hunting lodge in Robin's day stood in a clearing in the wilderness in Sherwood Forest.
They were clearing up when the second bomb exploded.
The monarch, an equestrian sports fan, was taking a carriage ride through the forest near Windsor Castle when she came upon a clearing that looked perfect for racing.
She has a home help 15 hours a week to assist with some of the everyday jobs that most homemakers do without a thought, like making the beds and clearing the breakfast table.
Solicitors were instructed with a view to selling the house and clearing the mortgage. Times, Sunday Times
Charities and human rights groups have accused the government and police of brutality in clearing the makeshift camps. Times, Sunday Times
If you didn't get the A Level / AS Level or Higher Still grades you'd hoped for, and you don't want to go through Clearing to get a new place at university, it may be worth resitting your exams.
They stepped slowly through an almost wall of trees and underbrush and into a large clearing.
The arrangements were made through... a sort of clearinghouse in Seattle. BABYCAKES
Chimoba said after being eliminated from the competition his team was now faced with the challenge of clearing the backlog of unplayed league games and finishing among the top three on the Premier league table.
Perhaps a crab corn chowder is in order or maybe some stuufed shrimp or flounder with that crab/ritz cracker stuffing … Please tell me clearing weather is moving this way … Think Progress » Church Uses Marquee To Speak Out Against Beck: ‘Sorry Mr Beck, Jesus Preached Social Justice’
The district council said that responsibility for clearing watercourses lay with the owners of the land, but the Herald said it seemed no lessons had been learned.
The robot weighs less than five pounds and is 10 inches long, making it ideal for building clearing, raids and other close-in scenarios.
She was supposed to be meditating, and clearing her mind, but there was too much going on to do that.
A dedicated family man, this black belt in karate and ace accordion player will both guide you through the process of clearing your debts and give you a couple of pointers on budgeting and personal finance to boot.
For the very rich, dispensing with art is less about raising money than clearing wall space. Times, Sunday Times
So curing your problem means clearing that stuffy nose. The Sun
Captured princes in torn and draggled finery were put to digging latrine drains and clearing up after the cavalry. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
With a range of five kilometres, marines can set them up behind advancing troops, clearing the way ahead.
One of them kicked a car that was just a little tardy in clearing the route. Times, Sunday Times
She quickly headed to the careers adviser at her sixth-form college and phoned universities that were advertising vacancies for law courses in the clearing system. Times, Sunday Times
So it was with a flurry of paper gathering, desk clearing and eventually handshaking, I strolled out into the back lane for the last time.
The first task should be clearing away summer bedding and cutting back herbaceous plants that are past their best.
Hong Kong Exchange & Clearing Ltd. said in a statement that the new website, at www.hkex-is.hk, is separate from the infrastructure that supports its two existing online distribution channels, and will come online Monday. Hong Kong Stock Exchange Launches Website After Hacking
The linkage of domestic depositories will facilitate the clearing of cross border trades in debt securities in Asia. It will enlarge the investor base and broaden domestic debt markets.
In the architectural analogy, we can think of bulldozers as the ground clearing tools of demolition.
The Transactional Record Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University produced the analysis, and as well as alengthy criticism of the IRS's seemingly unfair approach. Millionaires get audited less. How 'bout you?
He emerged to discover the city razed, and was put to work clearing bodies. Times, Sunday Times
The narrow cloisters were packed with humanity, and as they made their way through the press, with the honour guard of acolytes clearing a way for them, black faces called Amharic greetings and black hands reached out to touch them. The Seventh Scroll
Nature is a darn sight better and more thorough than any yard broom when it comes to clearing up leaves.
Like many nymphalid, papilionid, and hesperiid butterflies, male H. bolina occupy and defend perching sites in forest clearings and along flight paths as a means of maximizing their encounters with receptive females.
He found a grassy clearing with ease, and began gathering a pile of dead wood from the ground.
In addition, most of the clearing banks underwrite new issues of commercial paper and, like the merchant banks, provide lines of credit to their commercial customers.
We're going to change the way we handle the clearing of auth cookies.
We're using NATO as a clearing house for information for individual countries.
Pittman injured herself during a warm-up before her Zurich race, landing awkwardly after clearing a hurdle.
On the streets you see and hear people clearing their throats from the pollution by spitting in the street. The Sun
Then I went back to the clearing, where Solastian was absently poking at the fire and completely oblivious to everything else.
The elephants come to the clearing in their dozens to swallow mineral salts essential to their diet. Times, Sunday Times
A sudden clearing of the fog of confusion on the Tyne is English devolution's last hope.
The parent stock needed careful tending, some bits to be cut back and pruned, others to be encouraged to grow, by letting in more light, mulching, manuring, clearing away invasive growth around the roots and all the rest.

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