hew - use in sentences

Followed by a transitive particle

  • down: Private Hodge and another man, who was afterward killed, volunteered to hew down the stockade.

Object

  • stone: These works are much defaced, the hewn stones having been carried off to make field dikes.
  • rock: They are exemplified by the huge rock Hewn churches in Lalibela, said to be built with ' the help of angels ' .
  • block: The rough hewn free standing blocks show the scars of repeated chisel blows where they were chiseled out of the rock face.
  • step: We climbed the roughly hewn stone steps that led to the elevated platform of the temple under the feeble light from an overcast sky.

Subject

  • hand: Chislehurst Caves are a labyrinth of dark, eerie mysterious passageways which have been hewn by hand from the chalk deep beneath Chislehurst.

Preposition: into

  • rock: As you draw near to the monument you notice that there are steps hewn into the rock.

Modifying Another Word

  • roughly: We climbed the roughly hewn stone steps that led to the elevated platform of the temple under the feeble light from an overcast sky.
  • down: Here lies our lord, hewn down, the good man lies in the dirt.
  • hand: They are each about 10m high, over one meter in diameter, and like everything else in the hotel they are hand hewn.
  • all: Here lies our Lord all hewn down, 315 goodly he lies in the dust.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • down: Here lies our Lord all hewn down, 315 goodly he lies in the dust.

Preposition: in

  • rock: There was a crypt with eight tombs hewn in rock under the martyrium which contained seven tombs.

Preposition: from

  • rock: Beyond the door was a tunnel, roughly hewn from the rock of the mountainside.
  • stone: About forty small altars surveyed by S Gitin were all hewn from a single large stone.
  • block: Next oldest is the font, roughly hewn from a single granite block, which is possibly Saxon but no later than Norman.
  • quarry: This variation comes about from the stone being hewn from different quarries at different times.

Preposition: by

  • hand: Chislehurst Caves are a labyrinth of dark, eerie mysterious passageways which have been hewn by hand from the chalk deep beneath Chislehurst.

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