Example sentences for: rough-hewn

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

  • It’s an atmospheric little house, built from rough-hewn stone; it’s not hard to imagine the great explorer living here.

  • The sturdy interior of wide, rough-hewn floorboards and massive pinewood roofbeams is fitted out from the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts with antique Québec furniture, rugs, lanterns, clocks, and porcelain appropriate to the life of a wealthy 18th-century businessman.

  • The large Cyclopean Walls  — huge rough-hewn blocks of granite laid one atop another with extreme precision — are so called because their enemies could not believe that humans could be responsible for the construction and gave the credit to the one-eyed giant of myth.


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