Example Sentences

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Each said later they were hewing to guidelines that all Americans have been asked by health officials to follow.

From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2020

U.S. military planners last week were hewing closely to Cordesman's line and planning for contingencies based on the nature of any foreseeable Iranian provocations.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are called stone-cutters, and they were hewing them.

From Bertie's Home or, the Way to be Happy by Leslie, Madeline

He found certain others who were hewing poorly because they were not Hewers, but Inventors.

From Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy by Lee, Gerald Stanley

His rays glanced on the axes of several sturdy men, who with shirt sleeves tucked up and handkerchiefs round their waists, were hewing away lustily at some tall pine-trees.

From Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading by Kingston, William Henry Giles