cloven

Example Sentences

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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

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

From The New Yorker • Jul. 8, 2019

All day, Torak had followed its trail of bitten-off twigs and cloven prints: trying to feel what it was feeling; guessing where it would go next.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver