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Example sentences for: hew

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It was they who made the first and hardiest effort to hew a modern living out of this hard land.
In contrast, a female chimp--call her Pat Schroeder--would hew truer to her core constituency.
This is an area I know a bit about from a previous incarnation as the point man on information policy at the then Department of HEW in the 1970s.
If you love her dearly, as you say, it will be necessary to reach an agreement, probably with a referee, whereby you both hew to your own beliefs and do not discuss them.
Faludi's interviewees hew to this silence, and I wonder if that isn't part of their trouble.