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wove

American  
[wohv] / woʊv /

verb

  1. a simple past tense and past participle of weave.


wove British  
/ wəʊv /

verb

  1. a past tense of weave

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Example Sentences

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The dancers wove through the crowd as others clapped along in raucous celebration.

From Los Angeles Times

I glanced up at the windows of my old office as I biked back toward home, then wove among buses and trolleys on Market Street thinking of how I missed even my commute.

From The Wall Street Journal

Suddenly, I find myself replaying every single one of the stories Grandma used to tell me—stories of gods who wove webs of deceit, and of monsters that went bump in the night.

From Literature

Practicing the opposite of all that she had been taught, she wove together the most boring, dull, tedious, and uninteresting bits of every speech she knew.

From Literature

She wove through the crowd, sprinted down streets, leaped across intersections.

From Literature