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 | [e-mail], 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

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024