How to Use hive off in a Sentence

hive off

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• Woods then allegedly smashed the lid and flipped the hive off the flatbed, agitating the bees even more, the release said.
  — Rob Frehse, CNN, 19 Oct. 2022
• If Traton goes well, maybe other big VW brands could be hived off from the parent.
  — Chris Bryant | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 17 June 2019
• Better shows with lesser music have become more familiar than the shows with the very best stuff, which is mostly hived off to jazz and cabaret.
  — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2017
• Its home and hygiene brands, currently being hived off into their own unit, will be ready for a potential sale by the time a successor is in place.
  — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2019
• The pressure for a turnaround has grown as the company prepares to hive off its business selling Tylenol, Listerine and other consumer-health products.
  — Peter Loftus, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2022
• All this might suggest the White House double down on infrastructure talks, an attempt to hive off $1 trillion or so of its ambitions in a bipartisan bill.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 3 June 2021
• Jammu & Kashmir, already split into two in 1947 when Pakistan grabbed one-third of it, has been divided further, with the high desert of Ladakh hived off into a separate entity.
  — The Economist, 9 Aug. 2019
• Twitter’s value has always been in these little pro-am micro-networks, hived off from the larger feed, where anyone with knowledge, wit, or skills can become central to the perception of a moment.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2017
• Other drugmakers in recent years have hived off lower-margin segments to recapture heady sales growth from cancer drugs and others.
  — Jared S. Hopkins, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020
• Would China accept hiving off a core part of one of its few globally powerful corporations?
  — The Economist, 11 Sep. 2019
• The idea behind the split was to hive off the newspaper titles, which were seen as slower-growing and more troubled than the highly profitable entertainment businesses, especially Fox News.
  — Alex Frangos, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
• That hived off a slower-growing part of its operations, which may help attract investors who balked at Budweiser Brewing’s valuation last time around.
  — Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2019
• The quarter was the first full one under new Chief Executive Peter Zaffino, and comes as the company is preparing to hive off its big life-insurance and retirement unit into a self-standing company.
  — Leslie Scism, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2021
• After hiving off enterprise technology nearly two years ago, the remaining HP was thought to be the more boring half, stuck in the purgatory of personal computers and printers.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2017
• Pfizer and Honeywell International on Tuesday announced plans to hive off major business units in an effort to sharpen the focus on their core operations.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2017
• The Europeans, unusually united in their defence of the deal, say that its purpose was precisely to hive off nuclear proliferation from broader concerns.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• Several lawmakers have expressed concern that a backstop provision could possibly leave Northern Ireland hived off from U.K. rules and regulations.
  — Max Colchester, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2018
• Fortum bought the operation several years ago from Germany utility E.ON, which was keen to hive off its fossil-fuel power-generation business and focus on renewables instead.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 30 June 2022
• Uber, which is trading well below the price at its initial public offering, seeks to hive off money-losing businesses to achieve its goal of being profitable -- before taxes, interest, depreciation and amortization -- by 2021.
  — Edwin Chan, Bloomberg.com, 29 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024