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.
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  • 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.
  • ‘The owner says I'm the only girl who can eat a whole one without flinching,’ Cleaveland said proudly.
  • One of them wielded a meat cleaver. Times, Sunday Times
  • Cell divisions cleave the egg, like cutting a cake, and result in a multicellular structure.
  • Plumes of spindrift were scouring the top, leaving nothing but a swooping white cleaver of ice.
  • Out spreads the canvas -- alow, aloft-boom-stretched, on both sides, with many a stun 'sail; till like a hawk, with pinions poised, we shadow the sea with our sails, and reelingly cleave the brine. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)
  • Like someone getting their jaw torn off, or a person getting cleaved in half by a sword dissection by bisection? Archive 2009-02-01
  • Being clever with a cleaver does not run in his family.
  • Cleave fast to her thou lovest and let the envious rail amain, iv. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Another pancreatic enzyme, elastase, cleaves preferentially at bonds involving nonbulky, neutral amino acids. The Scientist
  • And it turneth no more to this or to that, but it willeth always One, and that is God; to Him it cleaveth alway, without any going back; and therefore is it called immovable, for it suffereth not itself to be moved from God. The Following of Christ.
  • These trimetal clusters cleaved DNA through single-strand scission by use of UV light as the trigger.
  • In tea or pill form, these herbal preparations include burdock, buchu, cleavers, and horsetail. A Health Guide on the Safe and Proper Use of Diuretics
  • The introduction to Cleaver's book Reading Capital Politically provides an overview of what he calls autonomist marxism, tendencies that Anarchist news dot org - Comments
  • Cleaves writes about desperate men, losers and failures, all from the perspective of a bar room raconteur.
  • As we all know, this issue has caused massive issues for the party internally, this divide cleaves the party right down to its lowest level.
  • Captain Cleaver aka Daniel James elaborates a terse warcry in this Red Herring piece: game developers clash in a ruthless and bloody 10-year battle for control of the online game industry. The flogging will continue
  • I dropped my head into my hands, wishing I had a meat cleaver nearby.
  • Herbs such as iris versicolor, mullein, red root bark, burdock, echinacea, cleavers, red clover, ginger, yellow dock, sarsaparilla, elder flower and yarrow are good lymph movers and detoxifiers.
  • In "Probate," her life cleaved in half and unrecognizable to herself, Adrienne is forced to pay a visit to Probate court. Dora Levy Mossanen: Master of Dark Tales
  • “And His feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the East: and the Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the East and toward the West, and there shall be a very great valley; and half the mountain shall remove toward the North, and half of it toward the South.” — The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882
  • FDA can pass through the cell membrane whereupon intracellular esterases cleave off the diacetate group.
  • Huge heteromorphic creatures cleaved themselves from the walls and lunged at one another. Reap the Whirlwind
  • In a clearing between clouds we could see just ahead an area of large seracs where the shifting glacier had cleaved into blocks.
  • 'cleavers' or 'cliver,' and the wild madder (_Rubia pelegrina_), are instances of this -- then there are others which send out simple tendrils from the point of each leaf. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 454 Volume 18, New Series, September 11, 1852
  • 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
  • Water starts to emerge between small fissures where the ice is starting to cleave. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many institutions still cleave to the belief that business should be conducted behind closed doors. Times, Sunday Times
  • As the Seine divides yet unites Paris, so too does the Clark Fork cleave—yet weave—a more robust Missoula.
  • Thugs escaped with thousands of pounds after raiding the Harpurhey Post Office and supermarket on Rochdale Road with a meat cleaver.
  • They just cleave the stone along the cracks.
  • Man-made steel met inhuman flesh and black bone, and ... the ancient broadsword cleaved through the demon's wrist. Conan the Fearless
  • The pye-dog, its diseased hindquarters shaking, the crewman, his stainless steel cleaver glinting, closed on each other. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
  • The group is not so much taking a knife to its cost base as a meat cleaver. Times, Sunday Times
  • This material cleaves to the skin.
  • Ancient stonecutters could thus cleave it perpendicular to the crystal axis to produce hexagonal prisms of any desired length.
  • But where the minds of men, through their native darkness, are disenabled to discern the glory of spiritual things, and, through their carnal, unmortified affection, do cleave unto, and have the highest esteem of, worldly grandeur, it is no wonder if they suppose the beauty and glory of the church to consist in them. The Sermons of John Owen
  • Pressure has hardened the marine muds, the arkose, or the volcanic ash from which slates are derived, and has caused them to cleave by the rearrangement of their particles. The Elements of Geology
  • Fortunately this king of gems possesses in addition to its great hardness, considerable toughness, and although it is readily cleavable in certain directions it nevertheless requires a notable amount of force applied in a particular direction to cause it to cleave. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
  • They cleaved a path through the jungle.
  • The iron may be a Scottish squirelet, full of gulosity and "gigmanity"; the magnet an English plebeian, and moving rag-and-dust mountain, coarse, proud, irascible, imperious; nevertheless, behold how they embrace, and inseparably cleave to one another! The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III
  • One had a meat cleaver and he ordered me out of the car.
  • My head felt like a cannon ball; my feet had a tendency to cleave to the floor; the walls at times undulated in a most disagreeable manner; people looked unnaturally big; and the "very bottles on the mankle shelf" appeared to dance derisively before my eyes. Hospital Sketches
  • The word "occupy" is a bit like the word "cleave," which, as Alan Watts was fond of pointing out, has two meanings, one of which is the precise opposite of the other. Eric Simpson: The Polarities Of An Occupying Ethos
  • When both sets of fingers are bound, the cleavage domain can dimerize to form an active nuclease and cleave the DNA at the sites indicated by carats.
  • The Elsinore is truly the ship of souls, the world in miniature; and, because she is such a small world, cleaving this vastitude of ocean as our larger world cleaves space, the strange juxtapositions that continually occur are startling. CHAPTER XXVI
  • A thundering, prehistoric steam engine cleaves the crowd, whistle screaming, a velvet column billowing into the dark.
  • Still weary, he followed behind me as I cleaved through the crowds toward Elizabeth.
  • When you take it out, don't touch the meat with a cleaver or knife.
  • A bee may buz among the heath -- a lavrock cleave the skies. Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems
  • She pulled out the meat cleaver and carefully ran her finger across the lethal blade.
  • Ubp3 is a deubiquitination enzyme and a member of a large family of cysteine proteases that cleave ubiquitin moieties from protein substrates.
  • They just cleave the stone along the cracks.
  • This material cleaves to the skin.
  • As Mark Darcy, Firth played an illusive dreamboat named after his own television triumph as Austen's hero; Grant's portrayal of the caddish Daniel Cleaver was an amused nod at his own popular persona.
  • Extreme violence that crossed over into gratuitousness regularly, what with the repeated cleaver to the head and bodies exploding into bloody mist. Mommas, Don't Let You Children Go Out To See Watchmen
  • Many such plants, including the cleavers, have the means to crawl through anything - both its stems and seeds are covered in tiny barbs.
  • Although the cells can show a spectrum of morphologic appearances, from round to slightly irregular, angulated, cleaved, or even cerebriform, the cells usually show little variation within an individual neoplasm.
  • One tool you will need is a very sharp knife or cleaver to chop and shred foods.
  • He got a larger knife - a meat cleaver - for protection, and to frighten the other man, and returned to the room.
  • Some sampled treats and cocktails made from coconut while Key West's "coconut man" cleaved "edible bowling balls" in two with a machete. CBS 4: World News Videos
  • On the domestic front, their idealistic Ward ‘n June Cleaver fantasy may have been conservative while we were still in spitting distance of the 50’s, but at this point it makes about as much sense as trying to turn society Martian. Think Progress » Bachmann: Bill Clinton Is Trying To ‘Celebrate’ The Oklahoma City Bombing And ‘Take [Me] Out’
  • cleaved," the fractured part is more readily severed, and usually takes The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
  • Water starts to emerge between small fissures where the ice is starting to cleave. Times, Sunday Times
  • cleave the bone
  • The king of such devices is the divine Chateau Laguiole cleaver, which is available from Terroirs from around £80 in a variety of burnished woods including pistachio and olive wood.
  • And it likes the ruling, highlighting that it cleaved the mandate from the rest of the act. HUFFPOST HILL - Court Gives 2009 Republicans A Big Win
  • Since the 1950s one major shock and two major aftershocks have shaken and cleaved the American religious landscape, successively thrusting a large portion of one generation of Americans in a secular direction, then in reaction thrusting a different group of the population in a conservative religious direction, and finally in counterreaction to that first aftershock, sending yet another generation of Americans in a more secular direction. American Grace
  • The ancient ivy cleaved to the ruined castle walls.
  • Lukoszevieze brandishes a meat cleaver and brings it down on a substantial joint of meat.
  • Since the 1950s one major shock and two major aftershocks have shaken and cleaved the American religious landscape, successively thrusting a large portion of one generation of Americans in a secular direction, then in reaction thrusting a different group of the population in a conservative religious direction, and finally in counterreaction to that first aftershock, sending yet another generation of Americans in a more secular direction. American Grace
  • Instead the designers were instructed how to cleave a log with an axe and mallet, use a bowsaw, operate a pole lathe and wield a range of draw knives for shaving and shaping the timber. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • It struck a chord with one of the superstore's workers, who cleaves to anonymity presumably to cleave to her job.
  • All of these enzymes recognize specific four-residue sequences and cleave peptide bonds located strictly after an Asp group.
  • They just cleave the stone along the cracks.
  • As the egg cleaves, the amount of cytoplasm does not increase, but the amount of DNA does.
  • And with PG Mateen Cleaves straggling, they could use a veteran in the backcourt behind PG Chucky Atkins.
  • Yes, wherever the blame lies, there can be no doubt about it, that what this hilarious scoffer calls the tediousness of the way is but a too common experience among many of those who, tediousness and all, will still cleave fast to it and will never leave it. Bunyan Characters (2nd Series)
  • On a return visit, my 4-year-old tablemate commented, "That looks dangerous" as spatulas and cleavers were tossed in the air.
  • The enzyme randomly cleaves ß - 1,4 linked galacturonosyl residues of pectins from the middle lamella and primary cell-walls of higher plants, resulting in the maceration of plant tissues.
  • Mica is also another example of laminated cleavage, for given care, and a thin, fine knife to divide the plates, this mineral may be "cleaved" to such remarkably thin sheets as to be unable to sustain the most delicate touch without shattering. The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
  • We can long for it, pant after it, and have some foretastes of it, -- namely, of that state and season wherein our whole souls, in all their powers and faculties, shall constantly, inseparably, eternally cleave by love unto whole Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ
  • Cleavers is considered the best lymphatic tonic in the western herbal pharmacopoeia, and is both alterative and diuretic.
  • cleaved," we obtain strips which are often perfectly parallel, that is, of equal thickness throughout their whole length, and of such uniformity of surface that it is difficult or even impossible to distinguish one strip from another. The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
  • For if, when the sun is shining upon a tree, the axe should cleave the tree, and, nevertheless, the sun remains uncleft and void of passion, much more will the passionless divinity of the Word, united in subsistence to the flesh, remain void of passion when the body undergoes passion [2233]. NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
  • The other road, my father's favourite, cleaves to the coast round Torr Head.
  • They alter the cleaves amyloid precursor protein.
  • Higher rates will be needed if spraying post-emergence especially if targeting the more difficult weeds such as cleavers and/or poppies with Katamaran (metazachlor + quinmerac). FWi - All News
  • I guarantee the wingnuts claim that Cleaver refused to press charges so it would not be known that the spitter was a Union or Acorn plant. Balloon Juice
  • Once inside the stroma, the transit sequence is cleaved off by the stromal processing peptidase.
  • In his hand he carried a double-headed cleaver.
  • They alter the way it cleaves amyloid precursor protein.
  • The thrombin cleaves fibrinogen to an active monomer that polymerizes to form a fibrin meshwork.
  • Therefore, cleavers, a fast-growing herbaceous annual with a scrambling-ascending growth habit, was chosen for this study.
  • The second scission occurs when a protease uses an unusual active site within the hydrophobic lipid environment to recognize and cleave the truncated target protein, releasing both the lumenal fragment and the cytoplasmic domain from the membrane. PLoS Biology: New Articles
  • Finally, one other dried herb formula blends 2 parts echinacea, 1 part cleavers, 1 part goldenseal and 1 part phytolacca.
  • The foundations suffer them not to sink, the buttresses suffer them not to swerve, and the contignation and knitting suffers them not to cleave. Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
  • Only those fools who cleave to the dread phrase "living in the moment" can avoid the waves or pin-pricks – it's a personality thing of unease that vex most of us. I'd be much happier if people stopped asking if I was happy | Rachel Cooke
  • For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh.
  • The waves to cleave through the waves at a farewell to swim, canoe funeral.
  • And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.
  • He ran up to one bowman and cleaved his bow in half.
  • The thrombin cleaves fibrinogen to an active monomer that polymerizes to form a fibrin meshwork.
  • Even Democrats who supported big defense cuts wanted them chosen carefully, not with the sequester's cleaver.
  • She calls to the priest to renounce the fleshly woman and cleave to Her, the Bride who took his plighted troth; but it is a scrannel voice sighing from stone lungs: -- Robert Browning
  • His spade cleaved the firm sand with a satisfying crunch.
  • a creature called a polypus, that it still assumes the exact colour of that thing to which it cleaves. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
  • ESCRT-III cleaves the bud necks from their cytosolic faces. Naturejobs - All Jobs
  • Pour me a glass of rum and within the vapors rises a raucous and even romantic history of joy, tragedy and debauchery: tippling houses in Barbados in the early 1600's, where British settlers supped the earliest permutation of rum, which they referred to as "kill-devil"; jug wielding pirates careening through the streets of Port Royal in Jamaica, wildly spending their pieces of eight plundered from the Spanish and British empires; independence-minded American revolutionaries huddled in taverns drinking rum Flips and plotting their resistance against the heavy taxes imposed upon them by the British; Americans fleeing Prohibition downing Daiquiris and Swizzles in the jammed bars of Havana; opulent tiki palaces serving Mai Tais, flaming Scorpion bowls, Hurricanes and Fog Cutters to lei-festooned business-men and June Cleaveresque housewives. Slashfood
  • I had a narrow escape from a meat cleaver, which landed in the bonnet of my car yards from my fingers and I suffered a fractured sternum when I was used as a punchball while trying to sort out a domestic dispute. Both Sides of the Fence -A Life Under Cover
  • 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
  • II. i.25 (435,2) If you shall cleave to my consent, Then 'tis,/It shall make honour for you] Macbeth expressed his thought with affected obscurity; he does not mention the royalty, though he apparently has it in his mind, _If you shall cleave to my consent_, if you shall concur with me when I determine to accept the crown, _when 'tis_, when that happens which the prediction promises, _it shall make honour for you_. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
  • Picking up a long pole with a hooked end, a farmer plucks down a pod and cleaves it open with a cutlass.
  • I pick up the meat cleaver, swallow and prepare to swing. Times, Sunday Times
  • Democrats have accused Republicans of taking a "meat cleaver" to the government, seeking "draconian" cuts that could damage vital services, eliminate hundreds of thousands of federal jobs and destabilize the economic recovery. Republicans blast Obama budget but signal willingness to work with Democrats
  • The formula contained nettle leaf, violet leaf, wild oat seed, chamomile flowers, cleavers and fenugreek seed added to warm spearmint tea or diluted juice.
  • They just cleave the stone along the cracks.
  • At the moment the most common top ten plants are: common nettle, cleavers, cow parsley, ribwort plantain, greater plantain, hawthorn, lesser celandine, bluebell, red clover and herb-robert. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
  • When she charged into my home screaming and wielding a meat cleaver I called the police. The Sun
  • It's a heart-shaped layer cake, with pink frosting and frou-frou Valentine-y decorations, and it is served by hacking it in two with a cleaver.
  • A former mental patient went after him with a cleaver, and Shea dropped him with a single .38 slug to the belly.
  • When a number of well-defined strata cleave vertically, and one end of the series sags below the other, or lifts above it, the process which geologists call faulting, the scenic effect is varied and striking; sometimes, as in The Book of the National Parks
  • One of the spiny legs went into the air, angling down for him, but he moved his sword, made with the strange black stone from the Dragon Hills, and easily cleaved it off mid-joint.
  • These monsters would not lay down their cleavers even when on the brink of their own destruction.
  • Biogen 1 discloses that the way to do it is to choose the restriction enzymes likely to cleave the Dane particle DNA into the largest fragments.
  • Put on the great gridiron this moment, [an oath or a curse at every word:] make up a roaring fire — the cleaver bring me this instant — I’ll cut her into quarters with my own hands; and carbonade and broil the traitress for a feast to all the dogs and cats in the neighbourhood, and eat the first slice of the toad myself, without salt or pepper. Clarissa Harlowe
  • `You must learn to do things in a splashy way, Cleave," she told him. WEB OF DREAMS
  • Barbara Billingsley, who gained the title supermom for her gentle portrayal of June Cleaver, the warm, supportive mother of a pair of precocious boys in Leave It to Beaver, has died. CBC | Top Stories News
  • However, other weapons, including knives and meat cleavers, were discovered at the scene.
  • He always cleaves to his principle in spite of persecution.
  • The results were verified by Cleave Baxter, one of the most respected polygraph examiners himself.
  • Nice to meet you," he said in a voice that recalled the smarmy tone of Eddie Haskell complimenting June Cleaver on her fetching outfit. My Drifter Doppelganger
  • Above its heavy breathing, all you can hear in this wilderness is the drip-drip of melting ice and a crash as icebergs cleave into even smaller lumps, called growlers.
  • They alter the way it cleaves amyloid precursor protein.
  • He took it in his hand the way he would a fragile piece of spun glass, a glaring opposite to Nimue's handling of it as if it were a meat cleaver.
  • Nine of the 11 positions between the coding region and the terminator, which is cleaved from the nascent transcript during tRNA maturation, are variable.
  • Car passes the living room, an operculum widens into sluice — red filigree arches and gray fish mouth cleaves the heel of air — and seals again within its glistened sleeve. Not from the self but from the Other
  • She cleaves to whichever man is available and is unable to face the idea of being alone even if the alternative is constant verbal abuse and physical rejection.
  • Our organization is trying to ease the racial problems that still cleave U.S. society.
  • At that time, it had only been demonstrated that RNA could cleave or ligate phosphodiester bonds. The RNA World
  • Total DNA isolated from these yeast cells was treated with SmaI to cleave off one telomeric end.
  • Stone Age tools such as handaxes, cleavers, discoids and scrapers have been discovered in the region.
  • The iron may be a Scottish squirelet, full of gulosity and "gigmanity"; the magnet an English plebeian, and moving rag-and-dust mountain, coarse, proud, irascible, imperious; nevertheless, behold how they embrace, and inseparably cleave to one another! The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III
  • a tendency to cleave to the floor; the walls at times undulated in a most disagreeable manner; people looked unnaturally big; and the "very bottles on the mankle shelf" appeared to dance derisively before my eyes. Hospital Sketches
  • See the confidence with which those nervy clusters of lines, the principal decorative motifs, and the bold composition cleave not merely to each other with such effortless felicity, but to the defining shape of the finished vessel — a ewer, for domestic use, less than five and half inches tall. Archive 2009-08-01
  • It is alleged that a disguised meat cleaver, stiletto blade and a dagger were taken on to a packed British Airways Boeing 747 flight.
  • The tribe cleave to their old belief even after the european arrive.
  • A hog in a headscarf squealed as she cleaved its skull with her axe.
  • Frankly I think JJJ owes an apology to Obama (as well as Cleaver, et al.) -- and if not a bit of a public 'scold' from Obama might be appropriate. Obama Supporter Jesse Jackson, Jr: Black Super-Delegates Who Back Hillary Could Face Primary Challenge
  • If the problem involves too much water in the body, diuretic herbs such as dandelion, cleavers, pipsissewa, buchu, fresh cornsilk, barberry, and juniper berries should help. THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE
  • Also (and this is totally my own take on things, unproven by any kind of study or research), but I think that kids whose parents are divorced, separated, single, or otherwise un-Cleaver-ish might have a slight edge over those who grew up in happily-married homes. For Writers : So you want to be a novelist?
  • When I was there on Friday a meat cleaver still lay on a desk covered in blood. Times, Sunday Times
  • The tongue of the suckling infant cleaves to its palate for thirst; young children beg for bread, no one extends it to them.
  • Billingsley, who gained the title supermom for her gentle portrayal of June Cleaver, the warm, supportive mother of a pair of precocious boys in "Leave it to Beaver," has died Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010. KansasCity.com: Front Page
  • It yielded a 6-cm morganite on a large crystal plate of cleavelandite and quartz.
  • Higher rates will be needed if spraying post-emergence especially if targeting the more difficult weeds such as cleavers and / or poppies with Katamaran (metazachlor + quinmerac). FWi - All News
  • Chop the meat to a consistency that you like with a cleaver, then liberally splash it with sauce.
  • The immortalized cells were then further characterized by heterotransplantation in Nude mice; immunohistochemical staining for relevant HNSCC biomarkers; flow cytometry for surface markers; cytogenetic karyotypic analysis; human papillomavirus and Epstein-Barr virus screening; qRT-PCR for oncogene and cytokine analysis; investigation of activated, cleaved Notch1 levels; and detailed 35,000 gene microarray analysis. BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • They also don't cleave to the imagined Japan of old, which occurs to us as a blur of cherry blossoms and hedge gardens, scented with vaguely detected aromas of honor, humility, feudalism, solicitousness, and quietude.
  • And thence to the tangled thicket where the folkway cleaves it through, The House of the Wolfings
  • Dervin pulled out a cleaver and started chopping another fruit.
  • Likewise the ground, the concrete, which did not cleave to devour or entomb him.
  • I have done the same with a meat cleaver when sober.
  • The huge boat cleaved the darkness.
  • Still, he's better off than the Mountain's horse, cleaved in two after a disastrous joust. Matt's TV Week in Review
  • Chop the meat to a consistency that you like with a cleaver, then liberally splash it with sauce.
  • An iron tool called a frow, which is not unlike a butcher's cleaver, is then used to split the log into thin strips, one edge of which is four or five times thicker than the other. Richard of Jamestown : a Story of the Virginia Colony
  • Weed killers remove wildflowers and traditional grasses, then more aggressive species such as cleavers, thistles and nettles colonise.
  • Radamyntos cleaved its skull in two from right to left. Archive 2010-05-01
  • The binding of a DNA molecule to freshly cleaved mica surface in solution has also been measured.
  • The doll gives us no answer, clams up, refuses dialogue, cleaves to some inconsolable secret; eventually the child's frustration can take this maddening silence no more.
  • The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock.
  • With this view, I will take a representative crystal, one easily dealt with, because it cleaves with great facility -- the crystal gypsum, or selenite, which is crystallized sulphate of lime. Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873
  • Just himself and Eloise, a cleaver, a gun, a spoonful of rat poison.
  • Many vertebrae were cleaved, suggesting animals had been divided into left and right portions, an unusual butchery practice for this period of prehistory, perhaps for feasting.
  • The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock
  • Robbers used guns and a meat cleaver to hold up two businesses.
  • This cleavage is known as slaty cleavage, since it is most perfectly developed in fine-grained, homogeneous rocks, such as slates, which cleave to the thin, smooth-surfaced plates with which we are familiar in the slates used in roofing and for ciphering and blackboards. The Elements of Geology
  • - Barbara Billingsley, who gained the title supermom for her gentle portrayal of June Cleaver, the warm, supportive mother of a pair of precocious boys in "Leave it to Beaver," has died. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • The successfully fused embryos begin to cleave after 48 hours, dividing into a small ball of cells. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ensuing discoveries of other natural catalytic RNAs that could cleave and ligate phosphodiester bonds, and the very recent observation that the region surrounding the peptidyl transferase center of a bacterial The RNA World
  • But one picture posted on an online profile shows him wielding a cleaver, holding a container of red liquid. Times, Sunday Times
  • A rookie police constable who disarmed a violent psychiatric patient wielding a meat cleaver is to receive a commendation for bravery.
  • He cleaved a block of wood in two.
  • He went on to say that “dervish” does not denote those persons who wander about, spending their nights and days in fighting and folly; rather, He said, the term designates those who are completely severed from all but God, who cleave to His laws, are firm in His Faith, loyal to His Covenant, and constant in worship. Memorials of the Faithful
  • A buddy back in those days, who loved to sound off about rock music in an infuriatingly cerebral way, was fond of peddling the theory that the genre could be cleaved into two distinct halves.
  • At all material times the First Respondent knew or ought to have known that the imported canola seed contained or may contain undesirable weed seeds including cleavers, red shank and field madder.
  • A few workers, who could no longer bear the agony of not returning home for 24 months in a row, have reportedly gone to argue with the foreman, cleavers in hand.
  • She cleaved his skull with an axe.
  • The feldspar gems, such as moonstone, amazonite, and labradorite, also cleave very smoothly in certain directions. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
  • He effortlessly cleaved a log in half, then into quarters lengthwise, before straightening to look at her again.

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