1186 examples of cleft in sentences

<Hole, cavity, excavation, pit, cache, cave, cavern, hollow, depression, perforation, puncture, rent, slit, crack, chink, crevice, cranny, breach, cleft, chasm, fissure, gap, opening, interstice, burrow, crater, eyelet, pore, bore, aperture, orifice, vent, concavity, dent, indentation.

I saw many heads cleft in twain, and Mughar was not a sweet place to look upon and wanted a good deal of clearing up.

The passage of the Isonzo, here a deep cleft in the mountains, from Plava to above Canale, had been accomplished by the combined skill and valour of Infantry, Artillery and Engineers.

This practice formerly prevailed in our own country, a well-known illustration of which we may quote from White's "History of Selborne:" "In a farmyard near the middle of the village," he writes, "stands at this day a row of pollard ashes, which by the seams and long cicatrices down their sides, manifestly show that in former times they had been cleft asunder.

The sort of view that makes you shout For want of any better way Of praising God: there's a blue bay Shining in front, and on the right Snowden and Hebog capped with white, And lots of other jolly peaks That you could wonder at for weeks, With jag and spur and hump and cleft.

If, brandishing his sword, he struck the head, Horseman and steed were downward cleft in twain And if his side-long blow was on the loins, The sword passed through, as easily as the blade Slices a cucumber.

When dumb grow tongues of men that on such love would dwell, Why should a tongue-cleft pen by babbling strive to tell? Thy cheek is in my heart; no more will bliss delay; Glad omens e'er impart news of a gladder day.

" His voice, without resonance, cleft air, thought, spirit, and even flesh.

It is King Herod's only son That ye have cleft in twain! Herod.

It has two small horns issuing from the fore part of the head, and its tail is cleft in two.

"Receive him in his wrath!" exclaimed Chaereas, striking him on the throat, while almost at the same moment the blow of Sabinus cleft the tyrant's jaw, and brought him to his knee.

Now the biped carries a box of phosphorus in his leather-breeches; and in the dead of night the half-illuminated beast steals his magic potion into a cleft in a barn, and half a country is grinning with new fires.

They no longer concealed themselves in the cleft, but came up on the highland.

The white one ran right straight to the big cleft.

He comprehended at once that the big cleft had been made by the men who had mined ore in this place.

Now they marched in a long line up the rocky shore to the cleft where Dunfin's parents usually stopped.

There we found a letter from Hastings stuck in the cleft of a projecting stick near the roadside.

How could we realize that we had passed out of that loathsome cabin, never to return; or that Mrs. Murphy, too ill to leave her bed, and Keseberg, too lame to walk, by reason of a deep cleft in his heel, made by an axe, would have to stay alone in that abode of wretchedness?

A cleft was before me, through which I must pass; so pressing my knees and back against its opposite sides, I gradually worked myself to the top.

The spot was quite surrounded by high sloping walls of basalt, except to the west, where they opened in a three-foot cleft to the shore, and the ground was strewn with slabs and boulders of granite and basalt.

Round the neck of the youth a light chain was entwining, The dagger had cleft it, she joined it again.

The discus then cleft Salwa in twain who in that fierce conflict was at the point of hurling a heavy mace.

Time and again we were obliged to leave the road to avoid accident by passing over unexploded shells, and I shall always recall a gigantic oak tree which though still standing was cleft in twain by a 77-shell embedded intact in the yawning trunk; the impact, not the explosion, had caused the rift.

But before entering the cleft, the captain stationed Maka at a place where he could view all the approaches to the plateau, and told him if he saw any snakes or other dangerous things approaching, to run to the opening and call him.

According to varying accounts, he either sank it deep into a poisoned stream, where it is still supposed to lie, or, striking it against the mighty rocks, cleft them in two, without even dinting its bright blade.

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