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Clive

[ US /ˈkɫaɪv/ ]
NOUN
  1. British general and statesman whose victory at Plassey in 1757 strengthened British control of India (1725-1774)

How To Use Clive In A Sentence

  • Clive Tyldesley growls randomly as Davids skips past a defender.
  • Clive's father gave her a considerable leg up when he appointed her director of the family firm.
  • Referee Clive Owen pointed to the spot without hesitation, to the dismay of the Lismore crowd.
  • The couple began hosting Burgundy symposia for passionate amateurs in 1997, welcoming a dozen guests to Bouilland for an intensive week of tasting and touring, enlisting such experts as Clive Coates and Alan Meadows to assist. In the Domain of the Earth Mother of Burgundy
  • Earlier this week, Clive Black, of Shore Capital, described the price tag as "stratospheric". Ocado optimistic despite Fairfield Energy's abandoned flotation
  • Clive puffed again, then slowly pulled the pipe from his mouth and leaned back in his chair, making it rock slightly as he held the pipe in front of his face.
  • Clive and Elsa are massively proud of the new male and female they have in their tank, whom they are now encouraging to perform a mating ritual-dance known as imprinting and whom they whimsically name Fred and Ginger. Splice
  • The Welsh rugby fan said he was delighted to meet Sir Clive Woodward, who was at the palace to receive his knighthood.
  • Clive Brill, the director, has had a good idea for the soundscape which doesn't quite work: the Volsci are Yorkshiremen, and the incidental music is therefore all in colliery brass band style. April Books 3) From One To Zero: A Universal History of Numbers, by Georges Ifrah
  • Only Clive and Kenna talked racily, but in jerks, of cattle, fruit-blight, mules, and white ants. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa
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