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cleaves

vb. (en-third-person singular of: cleave)

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Cleaves

Cleaves is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Jessica Cleaves (1948–2014), American singer-songwriter
  • Margaret Cleaves (1848–1917), American physician
  • Mateen Cleaves (born 1977), American basketball player

Usage examples of "cleaves".

Here is a downward path to the abode of Hades, and the headland of Acherusia stretches aloft, and eddying Acheron cleaves its way at the bottom, even through the headland, and sends its waters forth from a huge ravine.

It may be that we all have some soul that cleaves to us, for good or for ill.

You had some small cause to love me, Ellid, but he had greatest cause to hate me, and yet he cleaves to me.

When a truck passes, it cleaves the wind with a cry that seems strangely Jurassic.

He is like a man who makes a wonderful take-off from the ground, cleaves the air like a swallow, and after all comes down helplessly in a desert waste, a nothing.

Clarric coolly met Dacaerin's hard gaze''and he cleaves to this son of Byve like a lymer for faithfulness.