cleaver

Example Sentences

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I came to love the satisfying thunk of the cleaver hitting the cutting board.

From The Wall Street Journal

He said his cleaver had slipped as he cut meat.

From Los Angeles Times

And, of course, it was “conservative” Justice Antonin Scalia who took a cleaver to the amendment to create the modern N.R.A. interpretation of the Second Amendment, extending the state right to individual citizens.

From New York Times

Folding tables are set up in front of the smokers, where the cooked meat is rapidly broken down with cleavers and packed to go in foil.

From New York Times

A woman threatened to stab her husband over an argument about money to move to Japan before she allegedly killed their two children with a meat cleaver in a suburban Phoenix apartment, police said Sunday.

From Washington Post