Cleave has 1 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The explorers were unable to cleave a path through the jungle. | |
| 2. | If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I remember thee not, if I set not Jerusalem above my chiefest joy. | |
| 3. | "Soft snares I purpose round the queen to weave, / and wrap her soul in flames, that power malign / shall never change her, but her heart shall cleave / fast to AEneas with a love like mine." | |
| 4. | Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh. |