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.
• She was also shot doing handstands beside the cheeses, cartwheeling in their presence, and reclining next to a large chunk of parmesan, with tantalizing flakes where it had been hewn off from the reel.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024
• Harris hews largely to traditional Democratic Party values but with a modern touch.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2024
• But the press event inevitably hewed back to the film’s origin.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 2 Oct. 2024
• Though the romcom must hew to a formula, so must the mob movie.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 10 Dec. 2019
• Several of the larger trees have been newly hewn to bring in the sun.
  — Jamie Hale, OregonLive.com, 20 June 2017
• 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
• While the limes hew to the green palette, lemons, kumquats, and grapefruits open it up to more vibrant colors.
  — Jennifer Fernandez, ELLE Decor, 27 Apr. 2017
• 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
• This was all fine and hewed closely to the education and therapy trends of the day.
  — Ryan D'agostino, Esquire, 27 Mar. 2014
• 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
• If the show continues to hew somewhat to the stories mapped out in the comics, the finale (airing Sunday, April 2) will be big and bloody.
  — Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Mar. 2017
• 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
• Bayona and his team were eager to craft a new tale that hewed as closely as possible to true events.
  — USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2024
• Even the best employees may want—or may need—to hew closely to their job descriptions.
  — Forbes, 18 June 2021
• Although the first installment seemed to hew closely to Hogg’s life, the second blurs the line between truth and fiction.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2021
• But planners hew closely to the guidelines for fear of legal trouble.
  — Aarian Marshall, Wired, 1 June 2021
• The seat, likely from the late 19th century, was hewn from a hunk of driftwood into a crescent shape, just large enough for a grown man to sit on.
  — Krista Langlois, Smithsonian, 6 Apr. 2018
• Five trailheads provide starting points, including one that’s just a short stroll from the falls, a cleft hewed from steep cliffs.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024