cleaver

Example Sentences

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"You can see it as a domestic narrative and then you can see it as a jumbo meat cleaver".

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

At Wing, he serves sea cucumber inside a crispy spring roll, dramatically sliced tableside with a Chinese cleaver.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 18, 2025

Instead of crossed swords, a butcher’s knife, a cleaver and a honing steel cross behind a crest with paintings of a wheel of cheese, a lobster, a bottle of wine, a head of cattle.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2024

A Santoku knife is a Japanese chef’s knife with small indentations along the straight blade, in the style of a Chinese slicing cleaver.

From Washington Times • Jun. 9, 2023

“I s’pose Dylan ain’t too busy to take you,” he said, pointing his cleaver at a kid about my age who was arranging fish in a freezer case, “but you’ll be wantin’ proper footwear.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs