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Cleft
"Cleft" in a Sentence (16 examples)
O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.
Tom has a cleft lip.
She has a cleft lip.
He has a cleft lip.
"Broken by war, long baffled by the force / of fate, as fortune and their hopes decline, / the Danaan leaders build a monstrous horse, / huge as a hill, by Pallas' craft divine, / and cleft fir-timbers in the ribs entwine. / They feign it vowed for their return, so goes / the tale."
Harelip is an older term, now seen as derogatory, for the condition known as cleft lip.
Alveolar bone grafting is part of the reconstructive surgery process for patients with a cleft lip and palate.
A cleft lip or cleft palate is one of the most common birth defects worldwide.
"Mum, why has the bishop in chess got a slit in the top?" "The chess piece as we know it today was designed in 19th-century England, where it was thought to look like a bishop. The slit comes from the mitre's cleft."
The epidemiologist studied Norwegian babies born with cleft lip, cleft palate or both. He asked their mothers to recall whether they had taken pre-natal vitamins, or eaten diets high in folic acid and other folates. The usual amount of folic acid in prenatal vitamins is 400 micrograms.
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The river flows through a cleft in the mountains.
Then came some palsied oak, a cleft in him / Like a distorted mouth that splits its rim / Gaping at death, and dies while it recoils.
a cleft of wood
This may be so because in most languages the most natural clefting involves NP's, and it is in fact hard in most languages to cleft the verb, although some — notably Kwa languages in West-Africa — allow such clefting.
When the affected object is clefted, the clefted constituent may be assigned a contrastive reading on the event denoted by the clause, as is shown in (62).
The strategy the language employs is to cleft the clause containing the wh-phrase, as exemplified in (3) […]
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