cleave

How To Use cleave In A Sentence

• Forget about the digital divide - it's the domestic divide that really cleaves this country in two.
• Other student-poets cleaved to the justified left margin; still others wrote in paragraphs.
• Golub, whose large-scale paintings drew inspiration from everything from Greek kouroi to images of male pornography, used a technique that was more sculpture than brushstroke, famously using a meat cleaver to create aggressive peaks on the canvas. Home | The New York Observer
• She teaches how to continue with discretion what is thoughtlessly undertaken; she inclines the mind to cleave steadfastly to what was imposed upon it by authority; and imparts to a choice which, though rash at the time, is now irrevocable, all the sanctity, all the advisedness, and, let us say it boldly, all the cheerfulness of a lawful calling. Chapter X
• Riders avoid our faces, and gaze down on our skull crowns where the bone jigsaw cleaves.
• Easily the strongest, the proud Dwarf swings a large battleaxe that he uses to cleave opponents in two, and pulls out hatchets to dispatch enemies at a distance.
• Almost all the work here is done with minimal equipment: Chinese cleavers, wooden blocks, steamers and woks.
• The ability to obtain peptides of this length, from proteins of greater length, is facilitated by the use of enzymes, endopeptidases, that cleave at specific sites within the primary sequence of proteins.
• If there is any political trend at all it is that, in time of insecurity, people cleave to the safety of fiscal conservatism. Times, Sunday Times
• They placed the DNA copy between two ribozymes, RNA molecules that have enzymatic function and can cleave RNA sequence at specific locations.