How to Use cleaver in a Sentence

cleaver

noun
  • But the Pats, like a movie killer with a meat cleaver, are hard to put down.
    Roy Bragg, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Source: Jayson Home brass cheese cleaver, $45, jaysonhome.com. 1.
    Martha Stewart, star-telegram, 21 Oct. 2017
  • Using the flat side of a cleaver, smash the cucumbers to crack the skin.
    Jing Gao, Saveur, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Give each stalk a couple whacks with the flat side of a cleaver or the blunt side of the blade of a chef’s knife.
    BostonGlobe.com, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Once done, the chickens can be hacked through the bones with a Chinese cleaver.
    Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Chin takes a cleaver to the stereotype of the submissive Asian girl.
    Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 25 May 2021
  • The butcher picked up his cleaver at Prime and set it down for lunch at None.
    Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
  • The question is, will that person trim it with a scalpel or a cleaver?
    Kyle Whitmire, al, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Take a look at the cleaver that Luis is wielding in that first pic — right out of Mrs. Lovett’s book.
    Vulture, 19 Apr. 2023
  • His warmth, kind heart and cleaver sayings will be missed.
    Natalie Stone, PEOPLE.com, 11 Aug. 2020
  • His warmth, kind heart, and cleaver sayings will be missed.
    Rosy Cordero, EW.com, 11 Aug. 2020
  • In 2004 a young man used a meat cleaver to castrate and kill his father there.
    Jon Ronson, GQ, 22 June 2017
  • The dirt along the riverbed today looks as though somebody took a cleaver to a chocolate cake.
    Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Cut the breasts into finger-thick slices with a cleaver or chef’s knife.
    Tse Wei Lim, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022
  • There’s an axe, a pocket knife, a meat cleaver, a chef’s knife, and even a straight razor.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 July 2021
  • Maybe your perfect knife is a cleaver or a petty knife.
    Amanda Shapiro, Bon Appétit, 22 July 2021
  • A couple of knives and a meat cleaver were in the kitchen sink, according to police.
    NBC News, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The documents state that, after the killing, Sanchez hid the bloody cleaver in her attic.
    Evan Simko-Bednarski, CNN, 21 Aug. 2019
  • This set includes a wood cheese board and a cleaver, as well as a variety of meats and cheeses.
    Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Police arrived and found a 46-year-old man with a meat cleaver and a butcher knife.
    The Mercury News, 9 June 2017
  • Here the Gunnison River slices through 2,700 feet of rock like a cleaver.
    Ryan Haase, WSJ, 13 May 2021
  • Onscreen, Art the Clown knows his way around a hacksaw, cleaver and other blades.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Smack the piece of ginger and spring onion white gently with the flat side of a Chinese cleaver or a rolling pin to loosen their fibers.
    Sarah Fritsche, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The back of the head appears to then have been struck by a series of forceful blows from a small hatchet or cleaver.
    Lisa Raffensperger, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2013
  • Using a meat cleaver or a heavy kitchen knife, carefully cut through the bones of the chicken to make 2-inch wide pieces.
    Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Police recovered a bloody meat cleaver in the kitchen of the home and a knife in the bathroom sink, an official said.
    Zolan Kanno-Youngs, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018
  • Weller also had a skull fracture caused by a blow from a meat cleaver to the right rear area of his head, Palm Springs police said.
    NBC News, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Forged in Germany, Wusthof’s santoku knife marries the best elements of a chef’s knife and a cleaver.
    Popular Science, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Phildecarp uses one to tap a cleaver through hard squashes.
    Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Inside, police recovered a large folding knife, a large kitchen knife, and two meat cleavers, Tierney said.
    Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 2 May 2024

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