How to Use cleaver in a Sentence

cleaver

noun

• No need to bust out the cleaver.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Jan. 2026
• Her cleaver hand moves up and down.
  — Weike Wang, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
• Even your fancy cleaver can fit in the three-inch deep slots.
  — Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2025
• The victim was stabbed in the head, arm and chest with a meat cleaver.
  — ABC News, 23 July 2026
• 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
• Clusters of cleavers grew around the pond that fronted the main house.
  — Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
• The question is, will that person trim it with a scalpel or a cleaver?
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 18 Apr. 2021
• Cut the breasts into finger-thick slices with a cleaver or chef’s knife.
  — Tse Wei Lim, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022
• Critics say the law attempts to do this carving with a cleaver.
  — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 9 Mar. 2026
• Using the flat side of a cleaver, smash the cucumbers to crack the skin.
  — Jing Gao, Saveur, 31 Jan. 2024
• Lester stabbed Nicky, who then died after falling on his own cleaver.
  — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 16 June 2026
• 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
• Once done, the chickens can be hacked through the bones with a Chinese cleaver.
  — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2018
• 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
• 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 dirt along the riverbed today looks as though somebody took a cleaver to a chocolate cake.
  — Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• 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
• The oldest one, a cleaver, is from 1998, the same year the store opened.
  — Vanessa Anderson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2025
• Think of ordinary tongs as a cleaver, and a Stando as a scalpel.
  — Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Jan. 2026
• Chin takes a cleaver to the stereotype of the submissive Asian girl.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 25 May 2021
• The knifes range from the wee (petty and paring knives) to the grand (cleavers and vegetable knives).
  — Scott Hocker, theweek, 1 Nov. 2024
• Comments The horror genre tends to be as subtle as a meat cleaver to the skull.
  — Keith Staskiewicz, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
• A couple of knives and a meat cleaver were in the kitchen sink, according to police.
  — NBC News, 21 Feb. 2022
• Meat cleavers were wedged between the chicken cutting table and wall.
  — Camila Pedrosa, Sacramento Bee, 28 Feb. 2025
• The end-grain surface absorbed knife cuts and cleaver blows without chipping.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2021
• Police arrived and found a 46-year-old man with a meat cleaver and a butcher knife.
  — The Mercury News, 9 June 2017
• In 2004 a young man used a meat cleaver to castrate and kill his father there.
  — Jon Ronson, GQ, 22 June 2017
• 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
• Also comes in pickle, cleaver, weed baggie, ghost, and bacon.
  — Lit Hub Approved, Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
• The child's father said the child threw several items at him, including a meat cleaver.
  — Tyler Langan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2018