Sentence examples for getting a clean slate from inspiring English sources

"You can't ever think you are getting a clean slate," said Victoria Barrett, who lives in Tiverton, R.I., and adopted two children from orphanages in Siberia, a boy and a girl, now 8 and 7. "You can't think that all you have to do is love the child and everything is going to be fine.

Though a fan of the show, Blair had turned down a guest appearance in the first season because she did not want to return to horror, having spent years getting a "clean slate".

"She's not getting a clean slate," he said, and he proclaimed that his Committee already has "two years' worth of material already lined up" for waging investigations and hearings against Clinton.

You've got a clean slate, Luke.

A laugh is a release of tension: you get a clean slate.

"With the under-20s, it's brilliant, because you've got a clean slate".

"Once we get a clean slate, we can get a biomechanical analysis on Victor," Peterson said.

If you're 22 years old as an undergrad or if you're 27 just out of your M.B.A., in both cases you've got a clean slate.

Roy Hodgson decided the winger should get a clean slate once Southgate replaced Pearce and even called him up into the senior squad.

He said he wanted to admit to his crimes "in order to get a clean slate, and to increase his chance of getting substance-addiction treatment," according to the arrest affidavit.

"Some considering bankruptcy will be shocked to find they may not be able to get a clean slate under the new law," said Jeffrey S. Conner, a San Francisco real estate lawyer.