Example sentences for: hewed

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

  • While Steiner has hewed to traditions and verities, the world around him has been mutating.

  • From the forests they have hewed red cedar planks for handsomely crafted houses and 22-m (65-ft) canoes to negotiate the coastal waters.

  • The recent vote to hold impeachment hearings over Flytrap, we know, hewed closely to party lines; only 31 Democrats and one Republican broke ranks.

  • Even in Strachey's and the earlier Morris' wildest speculations, they hewed to an implied contract between reader and biographer that states, We'll go along with you as long as you make what you say sound like it had some basis, once upon a time, in verifiable or even plausible fact.


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