Sentence examples for sort of clearing from inspiring English sources

Taylor said the regulations were unacceptable if they allowed this sort of clearing.

Into these pages, so bland, ill-informed and self-consciously tedious, the love of Michel and Valérie is supposed to be a sort of clearing of authentic emotion: a genuine event in a second-hand world.

The New Yorker, June 13 , 1931 P. 11Talk story on Auto Travel Bureau at 11 West 42nd Street, which is sort of clearing house for motorists with vacant seats and for travellers to fill them.

Good material for an attack ad there, no? Ditto the fact that during the early nineteen-eighties John McCain sat on the advisory board of General John Singlaub's U.S. Council for World Freedom — the American outpost of the World Anti-Communist League, a sort of clearing house for former Nazi collaborators, Central American death-squad leaders, and assorted international thugs.

By Alexander Sandow and Robert M. Coates The New Yorker, June 13 , 1931 P. 11Talk story on Auto Travel Bureau at 11 West 42nd Street, which is sort of clearing house for motorists with vacant seats and for travellers to fill them.

Um, mainly sort of clearing tables and laying them again, that sort of thing.

I have sort of cleared the decks for that.

"Gradually it became sort of clear," she said.

"Then Beck made it sort of clear that he wanted me to be next," Sunstein said.

Mr. Zappala said witnesses described the boy lunging forward, as if he thought there was some sort of clear barrier to stop him.

"Some of it would be chaos and I'd have to sort of clear away the scrub to find out what the main sentence was.