Example sentences for: hew

How can you use “hew” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It was they who made the first and hardiest effort to hew a modern living out of this hard land.

  • A pattern is already emerging of varying traditions and differing national identities: the English maid mourns the milk, but the Russian woodman cannot alter the written word, hack and hew he never so well.

  • American Media's chief executive, David Pecker, seems to hew to the latter interpretation, because he told the Times that Altman has done nothing to interfere with the "hard-hitting" stuff in the Enquirer and the Star about the Clintons.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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