cleave

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

When it arrives, in simple letters against a black backdrop, it doesn’t so much introduce the film as cleave it in half.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2025

Viral genome sequences indicate the teen was infected with the type of H5N1 typically found in wild birds and that it had mutated to better cleave to the respiratory tract.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024

He felt his tongue cleave to his mouth, and his heart labouring.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

“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

Although injustice was done her in this respect, she deserved the epithet "wild" in every other, and the name clave to her.

From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern

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

The eight “Mission” films can be cleaved into two groups.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025

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

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2024

Heat cleaved to things like a low fever.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

The researchers showed that the compound K11777 prevents host cells from helping the virus out of its shell by cleaving the viral capsid.

From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024

“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

Polygon's Oli Welsh had a similar take, observing that Rebirth's gameplay felt like it was "expanding the scope, adding features, but cleaving close to what made the first game tick".

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2023

Mama’s voice turned sharp, cleaving through this momentary bliss.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

When she was five months pregnant, ultrasound examinations revealed that the fetus had a cleft palate, a brain cyst, and heart defects.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

"It was her leg which was stuck within a rock cleft, and there was some space around the side of it and also nodules of rock which were stopping it from coming out," Rees said.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 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

The model will allow them to rapidly screen thousands of dietary and environmental factors in a laboratory dish before testing the impact of specific factors on cleft susceptibility in mouse models.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 22, 2024

She looked at the partygoers moving with her up the slippery stairs and through the cleft between the dragon’s tail and mouth.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

I like to caramelize yellow onions with butter and a pinch of salt before adding a clove or two of fresh garlic, stirring continuously to prevent them from burning.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

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

Fewer were they but they clove through the Southrons like a fire-bolt in a forest.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

From Reuters ● Jul. 20, 2022

In the video, the singer has deer horns and cloven hooves.

From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2021

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

From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2021

“And in their most unmitigable rage into a cloven pine, within which rift imprisoned he didst painfully—”

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 8, 2019

Often the baby has a deeply cloven skull.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann