hew
verb (used with object)
to strike forcibly with an ax, sword, or other cutting instrument; chop; hack.
have hewn
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present perfectof hew.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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So far, however, his AI-related bills have hewn close to national cybersecurity bolstering.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2023
The Fast and Furious films proper, for all their outrageous stunts in brash defiance of gravity, have hewn to some spiced-up version of reality.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 5, 2019
“Had it not been for a band of impenetrable mica schist lower in the mountain, and time restraints, Borglum and his crew of carvers would have hewn down to the presidents’ waists,” notes Smithsonian Magazine.
From Fox News ● Mar. 6, 2019
‘But I am content. Till now I have hewn naught but wood since I left Moria.’
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
The greater the passion, the steeper the precipice we have hewn for our fall—that is the only difference.
From Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac
