Among the best wheat sometimes grow ill weeds and venomous, as cockle and other such, also there it is said, of corrupt dew thatcleaveth to the leaves cometh corruption in corn, and maketh it as it were red or rusty.
For he cleavethto the ship, and holdeth it still stedfastly in the sea, as though the ship were on ground therein.
Therefore it cleaveth not to thing that it toucheth, as doth the thing that is watery.
Orpiment is a vein of the earth, or a manner of free stone that cleaveth and breaketh, and it is like to gold in colour: and this is called Arsenic by another name, and is double, red and citron.
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleavethunto the earth.
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.
Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
And the vizier said, 'O king, this woman to whose love thy heart cleaveth and of whose piety thou talkest and her fasting and praying, I will make plain to thee that this is craft and guile.
He smiteth him with his sword a blow so heavy that he cleaveth the habergeon and his right shoulder so that he cutteth and burneth the flesh to the bone.
But Perceval attacketh him again, thinking to strike him above on the head, but the King swerveth aside and the blow falleth on the shield and cleaveth it right down as far as the boss.
Wherefore my thought prompteth me to travel herwards, for that my heart cleaveth to her, and I beseech thee suffer me to go to her.
They go to pray, but their tongue cleaveth to the roof of their mouth: they are straitened and cannot get their hearts vented.
Whoso removeth stones may be hurt therewith; he who cleavethwood may be endangered thereby.
My bonecleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
For our soul is humbled down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to the earth.
And then shall he be judged subject to this evil, when a filthy humour, at every moment, cleaveth to his flesh, and gathereth there.
Even the very dust of your city that cleaveth to us, we wipe off against you.
Blessed the ignorant one who seeketh the fountain of My knowledge; and the heedless one who cleaveth to the cord of My remembrance.
My soul," saith he, "cleaveth to the dust; quicken me according to thy word.
Distinguish then the desires of the righteous in the nature of them, from that corruption and weakness of ours that cleaveth to them, and then again, 'they are only good.
Labour to see the sin that cleaveth to the best of thy performances, and know that all is nothing if thou be not found in Jesus Christ.
My soul cleaveth unto the dust: Quicken thou me according to thy word.
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: Our bellycleaveth unto the earth.
The voice of the Lord cleaveth the flames of fire.
Do you not often pray to God against a corruption, when your heart cleaveth unto it, and what your mouth saith, your heart contradicteth?
Esdr 4:20 A man leaveth his own father that brought him up, and his own country, and cleaveth unto his wife.
Sir 19:2 Wine and women will make men of understanding to fall away: and he that cleaveth to harlots will become impudent.
He who cleaveth to created things will fall with their slipperiness; but he who embraceth Jesus will stand upright for ever.
According to the love and inclination which thou hast, everything more or less cleaveth to thee.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cleaveth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
