half-clear
- a word derived from clear.
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
Following a corner, Everton could only half-clear Mahrez’s cross and the ball fell for Foden, whose shot took a deflection off Coleman to beat Pickford on the England goalkeeper’s return to the side.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 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
ET11:37 80 min: Chelsea only half-clear after West Ham look to create something, and Cresswell just hangs it up for Carroll at the back post, who gets above Azpilicueta and heads beyond Begovic.
From The Guardian • Oct. 24, 2015
There are only thirty-two degrees of cold, it is half-clear, and, to be out of the ordinary, there is no wind.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Leslie, Alexander, fl. 1879-1882
