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clave

verb as in divide, split

verb as in stand by, stick together

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Example Sentences

My tongue, as the Bible expresses it, clave to the roof of my mouth.

The magistrate's tongue clave to the roof of his mouth, as the scholar advanced, cap in hand, and bowed to one and the other.

Silence had always been easier to them than speech, and the habit clave to them even when they were in love.

Wherefore the name clave to the plain from Mac cecht's misery, that is, Mag Brén-guir.

He clave the rock in the wilderness, and caused waters to run down like a river.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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