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

I have hewn the pine for ships; Where steeds run arow, I have seen from their bridled lips Foam blown as the snow.

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles