The phrase "clear a passage" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to the process of making a path or route through an area that is blocked or congested. For example: "We had to clear a passage through the dense jungle to reach our destination."
The mêlée outside was so chaotic that we were unable to reach our taxi back to the hotel, so what was then the Royal Ulster Constabulary, who had been happily watching on, stepped in, clearing a passage through the throng and ushering us into a police van for a trouble-free ride back to the hotel.
Darwin's knack of interpreting vertical geological succession in terms of geographic landscapes and depositional processes [made clear in a passage in yet another letter to Henslow (Darwin 1835b) interpreting lavas interbedded with Mesozoic sediments—see Eldredge 2009c] may well be at play with his equation of geographic with stratigraphic replacement patterns of closely related species.
It was found that, to clear a single passage required 60 men, 1 bulldozer, 600 lb of explosives and five to six hours, uninterrupted by enemy fire.
On the campaign trail, he was jeered and jostled so badly in Bayonne that he had to hide in a bar until riot police cleared a safe passage for him.
The atmosphere on the bridge relaxes, and cups of coffee appear.The Panamanian isthmus was too high and rocky for the original French and later American builders to clear a sea-level passage like the Suez Canal, so ships have to be lifted 26 metres (85 feet) from the Pacific to enter the lake midway through the canal, and lowered again on the Atlantic side.
Half the mesh now complete, Turnock uses a homemade "crook" to lever up and knock down alternate wires, creating a clear passage for each cross wire.
Many people's view of the balance between the right to a clear passage in public spaces and the right to demonstrate will tip.
"At the moment, it's fingers crossed, we've had a clear passage, the conditions should be in his favour and the horse is in great form.
The complete extinction of Graziani's army had left the British with a clear passage to Tripoli, but their drive was stopped by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who redeployed a significant portion of the North African force in an ultimately disastrous effort to oppose German ambitions in Greece.
