Words similar to hewn

Example sentences for: hewn

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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.
The 30-m- (95-ft-) high Corinthian column hewn from red granite stands on the site of the ancient Temple of Serapis.
Each was built with marble hewn from the Pentelic Hills just as those erected in Athens at the time of Socrates.
As you walk up the long cedar-shaded avenue to the temple, notice the two-story caves hewn from the rock that serve as accommodation for itinerant monks.
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.