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UK
/ɹˈaɪv/
]
VERB
-
separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
cleave the bone -
tear or be torn violently
The curtain ripped from top to bottom
pull the cooked chicken into strips
How To Use rive In A Sentence
- She was all cold and bedraggled after falling into the river.
- The Fat Controller and I were back inside the bolt when it arrived from the bonded warehouse at Felixstowe.
- Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town. The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
- When your bulbs arrive, or you buy them from the garden center, gather everyone together, hand out garden tools and start digging.
- Sometime in the early eighteen hundreds, they trekked to the flat plain between the Ohio River and Lake Erie and settled in Mount Vernon, which was then a few small buildings in a forest of tall trees. A Renegade History of the United States
- I play the piano, so it is natural for me to think ‘harmonically’ a lot of the time (one can hear harmonies instantly on a piano; also mainstream jazz is extremely harmony driven).
- Last night, a steady stream of people arrived at the evacuation centre in Brisbane's showground, only a few minutes' drive from the swollen river. Brisbane residents flee homes as floodwaters rise
- I can say with certainty that a lot of arms shipments have arrived during this peace period.
- The driver braked abruptly, causing the car to skid a little.
- Many archaea thrive at hot temperatures (they are also found in volcanoes). Smithsonian