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• as clear as crystal
• The windshield was clear and clean.
• Congress passed the President’s Clear Skies legislation.
• The driver had mistakenly thought the intersection was clear.
• The coast is clear.
• Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path. It twisted and turned,[...]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.
• clear weather;  a clear day
• Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
• He gave clear instructions not to bother him at work.
• Do I make myself clear? Crystal clear.
• I'm still not quite clear on what some of these words mean.
• From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[...]  But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
• a clear conscience
• Statesman, yet friend to truth! in soul sincere, / In action faithful, and in honour clear.
• clear of texture;   clear of odor
• a clear intellect;  a clear head
• Mother of science! now I feel thy power / Within me clear, not only to discern / Things in their causes, but to trace the ways / Of highest agents.
• With a countenance as clear / As friendship wears at feasts.
• Hark! the numbers soft and clear / Gently steal upon the ear.
• clear sand
• a clear complexion;  clear lumber
• a clear profit
• I often wished that I had clear, / For life, six hundred pounds a year.
• I threw it clear across the river to the other side.
• Stand clear of the rails, a train is coming.
• Much soul-searching is going on at the west London club who, just seven weeks ago, were five points clear at the top of the table and playing with the verve with which they won the title last season.
• I want you to know how he spoke: he spoke loud, and he spoke clear.
• I would get very short with people and speak clear of my feelings without consideration of their feelings.
• Now clear I understand.
• Now when God called him, Moses told God immediately that he could not speak clear enough to be this leader.
• Then I heard clear your mother's voice, crying out in distress!
• Can't they see for themselves? Course not. Looks like dust to them, so they can't see it clear at all
• Faith, <span style="font-variant:small-caps">Dick</span>, I muſt confeſs, ‛tis true // (But this is only Entre Nous) // That many knotty Points there are, // Which All diſcuſs, but Few can clear.
• A statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter.
• ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.’
• Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
• When the road cleared we continued our journey.
• “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable,.
• The court cleared the man of murder.
• I[...]am sure he will clear me from partiality.
• Wouldst thou clear rebellion?
• The door just barely clears the table as it closes.
• The leaping horse easily cleared the hurdles.
• After a heavy rain, the sky cleared nicely for the evening.
• The check might not clear for a couple of days.
• He's been clearing seven thousand a week.
• the profit which she cleared on the cargo
• Beſides, he that cleares at once will relapſe: for finding himſelfe out of ſtraights, he will reuert to his cuſtomes. But hee that cleareth by degrees, induceth an habite of frugality, and gaineth as well vpon his minde, as vpon his Eſtate.
• The steamer cleared for Liverpool today.
• Bolton then went even closer when Elmander's cross was met by a bullet header from Holden, which forced a wonderful tip over from Cech before Drogba then cleared the resulting corner off the line.
• to clear an array;
• to clear a single bit (binary digit) in a value
• a room ten feet square in the clear