Example Sentences

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She grasped the clean white shaft of a miner's pick and, after four short swings with the pick, had hewn her piece of Nottinghamshire coal.

From The Guardian • Apr. 8, 2011

A notched and broken sword lay by him, as if he had hewn at the rock in his last despair.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

From her battle-ships so vast She had hewn away the mast, And at anchor to the last Bade them fight!

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various

In the very hour of triumph, when his strong right hand had hewn down his enemy on the field—in that moment has he fallen!

From The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico by Evans, L.

"Joseph took the body, ... and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb."

From Quiet Talks on Following the Christ by Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey)