Example sentences for: hewn

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

  • Surrounded by acres of farmland hewn from the hard desert, the adobe fort became a focal point for the development of Las Vegas for the next fifty years.

  • But kerf marks on milled timber are hardly the same as skaffs on hewn logs.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Each was built with marble hewn from the Pentelic Hills just as those erected in Athens at the time of Socrates.


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