hewn
AmericanOther Word Forms
- unhewn adjective
- well-hewn adjective
Etymology
Origin of hewn
1300–50; Middle English hewen, past participle of hew
Example Sentences
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But when he got it right, his lyrics had an aphoristic directness that made them seem more hewn than written.
The roughly hewn goober had been strapped to the back of a logging truck, hauled across the country and parked near the White House.
From Los Angeles Times
“What the Acropolis was to Ancient Greece during her Golden Age, the new Civic Center now being hewn from the shabby slopes of Bunker Hill will be to Los Angeles,” The Times wrote in 1957.
From Los Angeles Times
Imagine running your fingers over the jagged grey marble from which two gladiatrices were hewn thousands of years ago.
From Salon
Other kinds of complex technologies also developed in the Middle Pleistocene, including wooden structures constructed with logs hewn using hafted tools, which are stone blades affixed to wooden or bone handles.
From Science Daily
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