cloven

Example Sentences

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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

The name of a police officer who supposedly investigated the cloven footprints in the snow was made up.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2021

In his short story “Ordeal by Golf,” the narrator declares, “In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.”

From The New Yorker • Apr. 3, 2019

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

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