Example Sentences

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Hiving off the African arm, 74 percent owned by Barrick, would reduce the miner's gold output in the short term but also lower its average operating costs.

From Reuters • Aug. 16, 2012

Fighting, writing, digging, rigging, Hiving, wiving, nursing, versing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hiving thus briefly sketched the beginnings and progress of the good work in the city up to the time of my appointment, I will defer the balance of the record for the next chapter.

From Thirty Years in the Itinerancy by Miller, Wesson Gage

Hiving bees was the old fellow's hobby and pride, and he dived into his cottage, smashing his clay pipe on the way, with the haste of an attacked soldier seizing his weapons.

From Nature's Serial Story by Roe, Edward Payson