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Example sentences for: hewing

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

(Heston's "softness" on gun rights was an issue in his NRA election, but he has quieted critics by backing off his earlier statements and hewing to the NRA's official line.
Before hewing with the broad ax, they first scored the logs at intervals to prevent deep, damaging cuts.
Whereas Lewis attacks Said for trashing the norms and values of traditional scholarship, Ahmad rebukes him for hewing too closely to them.
Carey lays his trap by hewing close to Dickens in style and mood.
By sacrificing the ideal of informed political debate in the name of the "administration of justice," Lewis is at least hewing to his prior reputation as a pathetic court-worshipper.