cleave

Elsewhere representations of women cleave to gender stereotypes focusing on their roles in home and their clothing.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

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

“Rex Lawson is a true Nigerian. He does not cleave to his Kalahari tribe; he sings in all our major languages. That’s original—and certainly reason enough to like him,” Miss Adebayo said.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“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

Then came the crowd in-surging like the wave That closes up the gash the clipper clave.

From King Cole by John Masefield

The club would have been cleaved by a secondary access road if the unit count exceeded 2,300, the Daily Pilot reported.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

That’s why, if you don’t want your house cleaved in twain, diagnosing your trees is best left to a certified arborist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 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

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

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2024

Yao yanked the string of the outboard motor, and its roar split the night while its prow cleaved the water ahead of us and its rear left a trail that glimmered in the flashlights’ beams.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

Theoretically, cleaving the company’s interest in promoting concerts and filling venues from its interest in extracting the maximum in junk fees from powerless customers would do much to foster competition in the ticketing business.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024

"In follow-up experiments, we proved our hypothesis that the compound prevents cathepsin L from cleaving and opening up the viral capsid," says Mara Klöhn.

From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024

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

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2024

First, his job is to act as an impartial observer, obeying the rules of forensic archaeology and cleaving to hard data.

From National Geographic ● Oct. 23, 2023

Sigurd swung his axe at the water column, cleaving a piece off, and he grabbed at Anya as she scrambled by.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

The medical term for my ailment is an asymmetrical gluteal cleft, though requests to fix it are far less common than those to eliminate cellulite, flatten the tummy, or augment the breasts.

From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2026

Reported problems include spina bifida, cleft palate, and a range of intellectual, communication, behavior and memory disorders.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2025

Three-month-old Sana, the youngest baby on the ward, has malnutrition, acute diarrhoea and a cleft lip.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2025

She’s desperate to find a refuge for herself, “a cleft in the rock of the world” that she could hide in, as she tells him after her secrets have been exposed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2025

When he reached the little cleft where the road came through, the afternoon wind struck him and blew up his hair and ruffled his shirt.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

If you want a more aromatic sauce, you can also add cinnamon or clove.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025

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

One woman arrived with a clove of garlic and placed it down on the table before she started talking.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2024

We still sometimes do that today: For example, gingerbread mixes sugar with spices such as ginger, clove, and nutmeg.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

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

From Reuters ● Jul. 20, 2022

In the video, the singer has deer horns and cloven hooves.

From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2021

Huge cloven footprints were found in the snow.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2021

“And in their most unmitigable rage into a cloven pine, within which rift imprisoned he didst painfully—”

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 8, 2019

But one woman woke everybody up at dawn on Wednesday because she found the tracks of a biped with a cloven hoof.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez