Sentences with hew
hew
H h - He felled, peeled and hewed his own timber. [VERB noun]
- To hew a passage through the crowd; to hew a statue from marble.
- The walls are built of stones hewn by skilled craftsmen.
- They hewed logs to build a cabin.
- To hew branches from the tree.
- To hew wood; trees hewed down by the storm.
- Yet Australian comedies along these lines have tended to hew closer to cosy British models, when not relying on crass provocation.
- He hewed more vigorously each time.
- To hew to the tenets of one's political party.
- One of the most widely used typefaces in the world was hewn by the English printer and typographer John Baskerville. to hew out a sepulchre