Sentence example with the word 'cleave'

cleave

accelerate, broach, clutch, dichotomize, fork, hang together, make mincemeat of, reduce to rubble, smash, take apart, whittle

Definition v. separate or cut with a tool

Last update: April 6, 2016


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The carpenter cleaved the wood into two.   [adverb]

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His parents are still cleaved to old ways of living.   [verb]

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At the word, sirs, cleave a way.   [adverb]

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Cleave to her.   [adverb]

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Here prevailing granite and diabase give rise to a complicated mountain system through which the rivers cleave their way in a curved and irregular course.   [Please select]

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Cleopatra cleaved her fishes with a murderous hand and hook.   [Please select]

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Nevertheless, Roosevelt's decision, in 1884, to cleave to the Republican Party disappointed many of us.   [Please select]

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Cleave dismounted, and came, hat in hand, to the coach window.   [Please select]

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Cleave shook Dundee's reins and went on toward Lauderdale.   [Please select]

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