Example sentences for: hewn

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

  • Both the gorge and the staircase, created to allow soldiers to reach or leave the fort quickly, were hewn from the solid limestone by a contingent of slave workers.

  • The 30-m- (95-ft-) high Corinthian column hewn from red granite stands on the site of the ancient Temple of Serapis.

  • Ramses II did not build it from stone but had it hewn into the cliffs of the Nile valley at a spot that stands only 7 km (4 miles) from the Sudan border, in the ancient land of Nubia.

  • The marble that Michelangelo chose for his Moses and Pietà is now hewn, at $3,000 a cubic meter, for replicas at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, tombstones in the Los Angeles Forest Lawn cemetery, and countless homes of oil-rich sheiks.

  • Just off the road leading from Alcúdia to its port is the Teatre Romà (Roman theater), hewn out of solid rock in the first century b.c.


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