cleave

When the wind blows hard, and their branches and boughs thrash and creak, I am convinced they will topple over and cleave my home in twain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

They are free to rein in the state legislature as long as they cleave reasonably close to their state constitutions and do not step outside interpretation into pure improvisation.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2025

I thought that if we could cleave to Suzanne’s narrative drive, we could give the audience great pleasure.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025

The Scottish Premiership leaders enjoyed almost 70% possession but struggled to cleave out clear chances against a Croatian side hampered by injuries.

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2024

“And her just two days past vowin’ to cleave only unto Rucker!

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

“Hey There Little Insect,” an impish folk-rocker, begs bugs not to bite, incorporating Bo Diddley’s signature clave rhythm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Hints of Cuban clave rhythms, Tin Pan Alley harmonies, Jewish melodies and piano licks swim through its overarching Romantic theme.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024

But Mark Morris, perched on a stool and clacking out the rhythm with a pair of clave sticks, finds plenty to quarrel with as he oversees this rehearsal of his new work.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2022

You can see why radio likes it—the song is seriously insinuating, milking a jazzy Afro-Cuban piano clave better than anything this side of ’90s house.

From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2018

It would be as hard to tell why Michael loved Jan as to say why Jonathan’s soul clave to David as soon as he saw him.

From Jan Vedder's Wife by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

A company that has had its growth prospects cleaved off could see its equity valuation plummet, but it could also still be collecting steady checks from existing customers, making it a safer credit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

And now at Royal Portrush in this year's Open Championship, Scheffler has cleaved open an advantage of four shots after 54 holes following a display of understated authority in the hazy Northern Irish sunshine.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2025

The eight “Mission” films can be cleaved into two groups.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025

But within these macro trends, a divide has cleaved open.

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2024

That was how things felt now, two parts of a whole, cleaved into the time Before Ekon had betrayed her, and the terrible After.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

The cell destroys the disease-causing protein by cleaving it into short peptides.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The executives also showed no interest in cleaving off the cable channels, unlike Comcast or Warner Bros.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2025

“Society of the Snow” is judicious in what we see of the actual cutting and cleaving.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2024

By purifying membrane proteins and enzymatically cleaving them to enrich glycopeptides, the team could identify the sites and structures of glycans -- complex and highly branched sugar chains -- and the amount of glycoproteins.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2023

In desperation I uncapped Riptide and slashed at the fountain, cleaving it in two.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

It affects one in every 700 babies born in the UK and surgery to close the cleft is typically given when a baby is three to six months old.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Dr Nicola Stock is an associate professor whose work focuses on the psychological impact of appearance-altering conditions such as a cleft lip.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

He said it was important for people who have had a cleft lip or have loved ones with a cleft to engage with NHS teams that provide lifelong support and care.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Two young women who have turned to dermal fillers after having cleft lip surgery say it has given them confidence after they were both left with scarring.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

When she came back, a male officer with a chiseled face and a cleft in his chin accompanied her.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez

It can also be manufactured synthetically using materials derived from sources such as clove oil or rice.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

A middle C would smell like a rose; bass notes like clove and vanilla.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

The eels are sedated using clove oil so that Dr Evans and his PhD student group can easily measure them.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2025

Slice apples and roast them with avocado oil, brown sugar, and enough baking spices to make your kitchen smell like fall—cinnamon, cardamom, clove and ginger are all fair game.

From Salon ● May 6, 2025

Anyone with access to a compass and a clove of garlic could perform their own test, which is why the unmaking of the old ‘fact’ was so important.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Foot and mouth disease is a highly contagious virus that affects cloven hooved animals.

From Reuters ● Jul. 20, 2022

“Luckenbooth” starts in 1910 and creeps across the 20th century on cloven feet.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2021

The plant’s long, slender leaves are cloven at the top and tapered at the tip, like an exaggerated cartoon heart.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2019

“Chilling Adventures” hurls everything it can into its narrative cauldron, including a cave like a Hellmouth and a prep school like a satanic Hogwarts, replete with cloven hooves and pentagrams.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 26, 2018

There was a flash as if lightning had cloven the roof.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien