cloven
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Foot and mouth disease is a highly contagious virus that affects cloven hooved animals.
From Reuters • Jul. 20, 2022
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
“I expected cloven hoofs,” said one former NSC staffer.
From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2019
“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
After a while they plunged into a deeply cloven track between tall trees that rustled their dry leaves in the night.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Vocabulary lists containing cloven
The Lightning Thief
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The Tempest
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