Sentence examples for like a clearance from inspiring English sources

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The visitors had been defending just before the interval when Stephen Ireland intercepted and fed Adam, the Scot meandering to the edge of the centre-circle inside his own half before pummelling a shot so optimistic it initially felt like a clearance into touch to grant his team-mates a breather.

A wayward free header in the first half, which ended up looking more like a clearance than an attempt on goal, betrayed a lack of confidence and Szalai waved an apologetic hand in the air early in the second half after making a pig's ear of another opportunity.

GLENN KELMAN, the chief executive of Redfin, an online real estate brokerage based in Seattle that has had a presence on the Island for two years, always thought that houses on the market in the dead of winter were like a "clearance rack".

The desperate, squalid circumstances of the McCready house, where Jerry Springer blares from the TV and a child's bedroom looks like a clearance sale at Oxfam ("Did they kidnap the furniture, too?"), are so thoroughly integrated into the movie's texture that "good local colour" hardly seems an adequate description.

March Madness is my favorite sports tournament that also sounds like a clearance sale at JC Penney.

Like owns one?'" While some were perplexed, others were willing to get on board with the excitement: "March Madness is my favorite sports tournament that also sounds like a clearance sale at JC Penney," Eliza Bayne tweeted.

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July and August bring good weather, so it hardly seems like a time for a clearance sale on British tourism.

Let them see what it felt like to paw through a clearance bin of Word-a-Day calendars.

"It's hard to imagine anyone in like circumstances continuing to maintain a clearance.

"The recent call for a turnaround is like watching Macy's have a clearance sale 80% off of sticker for overstocked inventory.

"What the construction industry says is that they like high clearance on their lorries because they think of them as off road machines for when they go on building sites," he said.

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