Cleaving Definition

Cleaving Sentence Examples

• The bodies of flying creatures are, as a rule, very strong, comparatively light and of an elongated form, - the bodies of birds being specially adapted for cleaving the air.

• He was revered by the people cleaving to their altars and their fires, and his birthdays were calendared as festivals, on which greetings were sent to him by young and old.

• There is generally a tendency in coals towards cleaving into cubical or prismatic blocks, but sometimes the cohesion between the particles is so feeble that the mass breaks up into dust when struck.

• To paraphrase the old saying, the proof of the cleaving is in the living.

• Rather than "cleaving to one only" they put a value on honesty and clear communication of emotion in relationships.