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

When it arrives, in simple letters against a black backdrop, it doesn’t so much introduce the film as cleave it in half.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2025

Endonucleases cut the RNA molecules through the middle like scissors, while exonucleases cleave the thread from one end to the other.

From Science Daily ● May 2, 2024

It was clear that Hassan did not need to cleave a mountain to win Aziz.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

“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

His tongue clave to the roof of his mouth.

From A Hero of Romance by Richard Marsh

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

An agreement has defied numerous, U.N.-facilitated rounds of talks since 1974 when the island was cleaved along ethnic lines following a Turkish invasion preceded by a coup aimed at uniting the island with Greece.

From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024

Her knees buckled, and her vision swam, and she wondered for a moment if this was dying, whether she’d been cleaved in two.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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

Using a cleaving enzyme derived from a family of viruses, the researchers developed a synthetic enzyme that could be directed to cut specific amino acids from Vg1 in the zebrafish embryo.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2023

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

Mama’s voice turned sharp, cleaving through this momentary bliss.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

Schimberg, who became friends with Pearson during “Chained for Life,” also drew from his own experience with a cleft palate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2024

He had the darkest eyelashes I’ve ever seen, short and tidy fingernails, and a cleft chin that could fit a Canadian loonie.

From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2024

They came to a cleft between two dark crags, and passing through found themselves on the very edge of the last fence of Mordor.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

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

So King Théoden rode from Helm’s Gate and clove his path to the great Dike.

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

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

Made with both graphite and acrylic, the busy scenes achieve an entrancing variety of tones: acres of newspaper gray, crinkling across the drawings’ shallow perspective, are periodically cloven by a sudden swath of velvety black.

From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2021

“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

Quickly they searched the bodies of the Orcs, gathering their swords and cloven helms and shields into a heap.

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