Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Definitions

cloven

[kloh-vuhn] / ˈkloʊ vən /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

“Chilling Adventures” hurls everything it can into its narrative cauldron, including a cave like a Hellmouth and a prep school like a satanic Hogwarts, replete with cloven hooves and pentagrams.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 26, 2018

In Zooey, be assured early, we are dealing with the complex, the overlapping, the cloven, and at least two dossier-like paragraphs ought to be got in right here.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger




Vocabulary lists containing cloven