cleave

Elsewhere representations of women cleave to gender stereotypes focusing on their roles in home and their clothing.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

I thought that if we could cleave to Suzanne’s narrative drive, we could give the audience great pleasure.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025

Sometimes a writer should cleave an intimidating block of print with a paragraph break just to give the reader’s eyes a place to alight and rest.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

“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

Weasel's tongue clave to the roof of his mouth, and his teeth chattered audibly against each other, his knees smote together, and his eyes glanced steadfastly upon the phantom.

From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John P. Kennedy

The club would have been cleaved by a secondary access road if the unit count exceeded 2,300, the Daily Pilot reported.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Another two in the fifth end cleaved open the advantage again before the teams traded points in the next two to leave Sweden needing four in the final end to win.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026

A company that has had its growth prospects cleaved off could see its equity valuation plummet, but it could also still be collecting steady checks from existing customers, making it a safer credit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

But within these macro trends, a divide has cleaved open.

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2024

Jimmy Goble’s death cleaved Katherine’s life in two parts.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

"In the end, we optimized the conditions to a practical level and, under ambient temperatures, achieved PEG-modified cleaving efficiency above 91% at 50°C within just one to two hours," stated Inagaki, the study's first author.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

It can be made cleanly by cleaving the hydrogen out of water using clean electricity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

“Society of the Snow” is judicious in what we see of the actual cutting and cleaving.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2024

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

Her daughter was born early with a cleft palate, facial symptoms of sodium valproate syndrome as well as ADHD.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

The medical term for my ailment is an asymmetrical gluteal cleft, though requests to fix it are far less common than those to eliminate cellulite, flatten the tummy, or augment the breasts.

From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2026

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

“It certainly happened to me,” said Schimberg, who has a cleft palate.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2024

“He’s from Bangladesh. He has a cleft lip and palate. His parents sent him here to have surgery. He doesn’t speak any English.”

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio

A middle C would smell like a rose; bass notes like clove and vanilla.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

If you want a more aromatic sauce, you can also add cinnamon or clove.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025

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

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

Now I can make every knot he knows, even the clove hitch, which I did backward for a few months before I got it right.

From "When You Reach Me" by Rebecca Stead

Foot and mouth disease is a highly contagious virus that affects cloven hooved animals.

From Reuters ● Jul. 20, 2022

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

From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2021

The plant’s long, slender leaves are cloven at the top and tapered at the tip, like an exaggerated cartoon heart.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 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

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