Example Sentences
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Meanwhile the French Mandate hived off Lebanon from Syria to create a strategic beachhead and imposed new boundaries over the whole territory in the early 1920s, before an Arab rebellion which they also ruthlessly suppressed.
From BBC • Oct. 2, 2023
He hived off the employee from the investigation, but the discovery underlined the stakes.
From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2022
These were done using routine commercially available lab equipment, or were hived off to other facilities.
From Nature • May 13, 2018
The Sun is an underdog too, a loss-making has-been hived off by its parent company to make way for the all-conquering Daily Mirror.
From Economist • Jul. 6, 2017
As evening moved into night, they ate through me and hived up inside my brainpan with a loud buzz, their wings beating me into submission.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
