CLEAVAGE in a Sentence

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1. Never before had the cleavage of the very rich and the very poor been so marked.
2. It was the first time she had uttered the words to any living soul, and it seemed to mark a cleavage in her life.

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 Meanings and Examples of CLEAVAGE
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cleavage
 n.  act of cleaving or splitting; breaking of a chemical bond in a molecule resulting in smaller molecules
Classic Sentence:
1  Never before had the cleavage of the very rich and the very poor been so marked.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
2  It was the first time she had uttered the words to any living soul, and it seemed to mark a cleavage in her life.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
Example Sentence:
1  It splits in narrow strata, and the cleavage is so sharp that it appears machine-cut.
2  The internal organization of state policy-making has tended to reflect the lines of cleavage within dominant economic groups of civil society.