cleave

Example Sentences

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But once you’ve sorted these details, you and your arborist can make your trees safer, healthier, more lovable, and less likely to cleave.

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

Viral genome sequences indicate the teen was infected with the type of H5N1 typically found in wild birds and that it had mutated to better cleave to the respiratory tract.

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2024

Partly it was the old pleasure that he always derived from mastering new tools and solving practical problems—working out the angles and planes at which the cedar would or wouldn’t cleave cleanly.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown