cloven
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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
“And in their most unmitigable rage into a cloven pine, within which rift imprisoned he didst painfully—”
From The New Yorker • Jul. 8, 2019
In each hand he held up one half of a great horn cloven through the middle: a wild-ox horn bound with silver.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Vocabulary lists containing cloven
The Lightning Thief
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The Tempest
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