How to Use hew in a Sentence

hew

verb

• The walls are built of stones hewn by skilled craftsmen.
• They hewed logs to build a cabin.
• Or pink or blue balloons are released from an artisanally hewn box.
  — Diane Stopyra, Marie Claire, 5 July 2017
• Or pink or blue balloons are released from an artisanally hewn box.
  — Diane Stopyra, Marie Claire, 5 July 2017
• The goal was to do a smart yet considerate renovation that would hew closely to the house's original design.
  — Susan Langenhennig, NOLA.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• Anyone not hewing to the strict environmentalist line is liable to be burned at the rhetorical stake.
  — Robert D. Atkinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2017
• Much of the script, cowritten by Lisa Donato, hews to conventional rom-com blueprints.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• The English from at least medieval times have hewed to their own measurements—cubits, stones, miles, acres—some of which are still used in America.
  — Jenny Gross, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2017
• Trump and top administration officials have hewed closely with the Alexander approach.
  — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 5 Oct. 2017
• Objections were raised to the ending of King's book, even by die-hard fans, and many will be surprised with just how closely the adaptation hews to the divisive final chapter.
  — Tom Philip, GQ, 29 Sep. 2017
• Just as centuries of Americans have changed the Constitution to hew closer to its ideals, immigrants have deepened the meaning of the oath.
  — Ayten Tartici, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2017
• The new film seems to hew fairly closely to the source material—understandably so given Mignola's direct involvement.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 July 2024
• His line reminds you of the characters' economic desperation, which Baker has been so good at obscuring by hewing to a six-year-old girl's perspective.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 20 Oct. 2017
• Intentionally or not, Shapiro is hewing to a model established by other prosecutors who have leveraged their office.
  — Andrew Seidman, Philly.com, 6 Oct. 2017
• Though the romcom must hew to a formula, so must the mob movie.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 10 Dec. 2019
• At the same time, no one is sure how closely Powell will hew to the Yellen model.
  — Martin Crutsinger and Ken Thomas, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Nov. 2017
• So far, the games slate has hewed closely to the horror content of Blumhouse’s roots.
  — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2024
• And indeed, the language of the bill hews closely to that argument.
  — Emily Baker-White, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• Trail runners flock to 51 miles of in-town trails, including miles of dirt paths that hew to the edge of the Deschutes River.
  — Jen Rose Smith, Washington Post, 10 June 2022
• In early episodes, things hew fairly closely to Matt Ruff's 2016 novel of the same name.
  — Peter Rubin, Wired, 17 Aug. 2020
• And there’s a single blade mode, which hews closest to the actual swordplay of Star Wars.
  — Chaim Gartenberg, The Verge, 18 May 2018
• At first glance, all three hewed close to the genre’s long-lasting mainstream conventions.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 20 Dec. 2019
• Yet is that even the responsibility of the filmmaker to hew to the facts?
  — Jason Herbert, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2019
• But at other times, DeSantis hewed closely to the Trump line.
  — Gregory Korte, Fortune, 27 May 2023
• Four fresh graves hewn from claylike soil in a historic cemetery where the newly dead are crowding out the old.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
• The silvered shingles of the roofs were made from Brazilian wood, the terraces underfoot hewn from coral stone.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2018
• Many of the shoes that Chiuri presented, in Paris, hewed to the Bernardo Sandals ideal.
  — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 11 July 2019
• Gas mask on, Faith got to work hewing away a 70-pound chunk; dust flung from his chainsaw quickly filled the air with a yellow-gold haze.
  — Elise Cutts, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2023
• Each actress is given a role that hews closely to her own persona.
  — Katie Walsh, kansascity, 17 May 2018
• These actors, at least at the time, hewed closer to a more traditional form of Hollywood machismo.
  — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024