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How to use hew in a sentence

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From then on, generations of disciples laboured with hand tools to hew giant temples, intricate statues and monasteries of up to three storeys.
If you use a broadax, hew the log face perpendicular to the ground rather than parallel, as shown here.
Firms with more than 50 employees are required to hew to certain quotas based on race, gender, and physical disability.
Deep in the rain forests of Central America, lumberjacks hew the primavera tree in the dark of a moonless night.
Traditional weddings are still in evidence, but more people plan their own, and minorities hew to their traditional forms.
His builders knew how to hew underground chambers without support, and they are still standing.
Behind all the finger-wagging is the idea that movies about history need to hew to facts.
Even battling evil warlocks, when tween girls leave the page for the screen, they largely hew to an awkward caricature of preadolescence.
With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.
A girl is regarded as grown up when she can cultivate food gardens, hew wood, carry water, and look after her family and family members even when her mother is absent.
Designers hew to their legacies for fall lines, while Armani argues against his reputation for elegance.
That may make them more likely to, collectively, hew to a more moderate path when giving odds on the election.
After Jobs left, Scully says, the company tried to hew to his design philosophy.
Vogue China, which managed to hew Doutzen Kroes' entire leg in June?
However, in today's economic environment, brought about by a Conservative government, would that we could hew some wood so we could supply the appropriate marketplaces in emerging economies elsewhere around the globe.
State media and the judiciary hew to the official line.
When the masked stranger hew with his axe, the baker's head did split in twain and his body fell like a lump to the ground in turn.
Taught by experience, they hew to an extravagant standard for claiming discoveries one chance in 3.5m that their data were a random fluctuation, or 5 sigma in the jargon.
The parties now carefully vet all utterances from the podium to make sure they hew closely to the theme: how wonderful their man is, especially when compared with the horrors the other guy will unleash.
This is especially the case with Vietnam and China now that they no longer hew strictly to the communist economic ideology that once justified their dictatorships.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Draw the belt tighter, my son, and hew me out this tree that is fallen across the road, for our campground is not here.
Now, yesterday I broke my axletree, and I go and hew out a new one of green wood.
One was almost tempted to draw his short-sword and hew his way through in search of pure air beyond.
Stryver had begun cautiously to hew away the lower staves of the ladder on which he mounted.
There, Prudence, there's a pioneer to hew down the first rough difficulties of your path.
Ten thousand warriors could not hew a way to liberty from out this awful place.
Then it took him but a short time to hew his way through the rock.
But he could neither hew spars, nor paint, nor splice ropes.
You on the left, Howett, and Thomas of Redbridge upon the right.Draw thy sword, Thomas of Redbridge, and hew me his head from his shoulders.
Thare is a divinity that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.
We will mark a straight line on the log and hew to that line.
The astounded brothers were dragged away to hack and hew and carry.
They draw their long scalping-knives, and hew off broad steaks.
After this, we had to hew a path for ourselves through the forest.
Don Quixote merely observed him steadily, longing for him to leap from the cart and come to close quarters with him, when he hoped to hew him in pieces.
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