Example Sentences

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The hosts half-clear, Jamal Musiala has a shot blocked and then Harry Kane goes down in the box.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2024

Ander Herrera opened the scoring in the 23rd minute when Brest’s defense could only half-clear Mbappé’s cross.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 20, 2021

Everton half-clear the set piece, and then line up with seven at the back.

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2021

The opera takes its unearthly power from metaphors of blindness, from the Symbolist taste for leaving things half-said, for making things only half-clear.

From New York Times • May 8, 2017

There was no moon in the sky, but without it every object could be clearly discerned in the half-clear, shadowless twilight.

From The Torrents of Spring by Garnett, Constance