(a.) Felled, cut, or shaped as with an ax; roughly squared; as, a house built of hewn logs.
(a.) Roughly dressed as with a hammer; as, hewn stone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Across this relatively peaceful corner of the Horn of Africa, where black-headed sheep scamper among the thorn bushes, dainty gerenuk balance on their hind legs to nibble from hardy shrubs, and skinny camels wearing rough-hewn bells lumber over rocky slopes, people long accustomed to a harsh environment find they cannot cope after years of below-average rainfall.
(2) As the heat drained from the city’s black streets, hewn out of lava from nearby Mount Etna , the stream of new arrivals kept coming.
(3) Behind him rise the steep, stone-hewn seats of a Roman amphitheatre in Lyon where, later tonight, Sting will play to a packed crowd of French fans as part of his Symphonicity world tour.
(4) Though hacked and fragmented, a haunting shadow of the masterpiece hewn 2,500 years ago, it takes your breath away.
(5) He swaggers around and gives deeply moving ad pitches that are more like carefully hewn writers' room monologues.
(6) Within minutes the bull whale's blubber has been cut away and hewn into thick white chunks.
(7) In Arcosanti, which he began in 1970, this developed into tilt-up concrete construction, with panels cast in dug-out troughs in the ground and heaved up into place, giving the effect of the whole place being built of great slabs hewn from the earth.
(8) Titan is not interested in the factory in North Amiens," concluded Michigan-born Taylor, nicknamed "The Grizz" and reputed to be hot-tempered and "rough-hewn", according to Forbes magazine.
(9) Over centuries, it has hewn an abundance of military strategists, statesmen and polar explorers.
(10) Among other Hepworths on show is Sculpture With Profiles, a curvaceously hewn piece of white alabaster on which eyes and noses have been etched.
(11) On current evidence – subterranean basements the size of cathedrals being hewn beneath the capital's bigger homes and tax avoided on a massive scale by some corporations and business – the mayor is uttering a forlorn hope.
(12) It was a victory born in Mogadishu, hewn on the streets of west London, honed at high altitude training camps in Kenya and plotted in Portland, Oregon, where Farah has worked for the past 18 months with the maverick Cuba-born coach Alberto Salazar.
(13) Such is the innate astonishingness of a drama in which historical integrity is hewn from Lego and logic is something to be bummed by one's brother-in-law behind a gossamer curtain (Ye Terry's Fabrics, £3.89 a yarde).
(14) None could even agree what kind of stone it was, with the Stone Federation of Great Britain telling the Mail it could be hewn from Portland limestone from Dorset, but another stonemason claiming it might be cheaper, Portuguese limestone.
(15) Trademarks: The pencil behind his ear and often a somewhat home-hewn method of display: see week 7 ’s “eclair stair”.
(16) Unlike Abbott, I'm a lapsed member of the flock, but if you are hewn and conditioned by the faith, that's who you are, whether you resist it or whether you accept it.
(17) Children sat on mud floors or rough hewn logs under grass roofs open to rain.
(18) This is smuggler’s Cornwall with a hewn passageway and, five minutes further along the coast, a hidden quay carved from the rocks.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dylan’s best friend is Luke (Daniel Ings), hewn from manicured stubble and the fevered nightmares of feminists.
(20) Rough-hewn and reminiscent of one of Giacometti’s lonely figures, the weathered bronze soldier in the middle of a tiny, shady square in the heart of Paris stands stiffly to attention, with the jagged blade of his broken sword pointing like a dagger up to the sky.
Sewn
Definition:
() of Sew
Example Sentences:
(1) A flexible, rotating tip catheter (Kensey catheter) was used to recanalize 24 segments of diseased superficial femoral arteries (from cadavers) that were sewn as xenografts into the femoral, carotid, or aorticorenal arteries of 14 dogs.
(2) No statistical difference was observed in the esophageal anastomosis leakage rate, but the mortality due to such fistula was significantly higher in the group of hand-sewn anastomoses.
(3) In emergency surgery, most of the anastomosis after partial and total colectomy have been hand sewn (p < 0.05).
(4) With each footfall, a signal shoots up to a vibrating device sewn into the forearm of the wearer's shirt.
(5) After switching the right to the left and vice versa, the grafts were sewn into new sites, either the right way up or the wrong way up, using a microsurgical suture technique.
(6) Excluding anastomotic leaks, hospital mortality and anastomotic recurrence, stricture occurred in 18 of 172 hand-sewn anastomoses (10.5 per cent) and in 57 of 195 stapled anastomoses (29.2 per cent) (P less than 0.001).
(7) Following resection, there were 11 (5 per cent) anastomotic leaks in the hand-sewn group and ten (3.8 per cent) in the stapled anastomosis group (P = 0.69).
(8) We implanted 14 Medtronic composite grafts, 1 St Jude conduit and 7 collagen-coated Dacron grafts (Hemashield, Meadox) into which a Starr-Edwards valve was sewn, as well as 3 homografts.
(9) A 21 mm St. Jude Medical prosthetic valve was sewn in it at 2 cm to its edge.
(10) As the YouGov analyst Anthony Wells points out , Labour have younger women's votes mostly sewn up: they're 21 points ahead of the Tories among women aged 25-40s.
(11) In 29 patients, a hand-sewn anastomosis was performed between the colon and the dentate line.
(12) Objective assessment may then simultaneously be possible with a harmless external probe sewn onto the serosa.
(13) The general solutions developed in this model allow leaflet geometries to be predicted for a range of conditions in free-sewn and frame-mounted valves.
(14) The mucosal layers of the lateral stump are sewn but leaving the seromuscular layers open.
(15) Fistula according to Bassov was made in one of the animals, and in each of the remaining three - two semiconductor silicon tensotransducers were sewn to the gastric wall.
(16) A further comparison has been carried out between hand-sewn and stapled anastomosis; 147 patients have been followed for at least 2 years: 69 after APE and 78 after AR, 40 being stapled.
(17) When Norrköpings Tidningar reported that every single girl in a school class of 30 had turned out to be circumcised – with 28 of them having their clitorises and labia cut away and their vaginas sewn almost shut – it was picked up by the media across the world, including by UK broadsheets.
(18) The former lawyer for the labour movement under Franco and UN human rights rapporteur was settling into retirement, blogging on justice issues and founding a co-op that sells baby clothes sewn by prisoners.
(19) It didn't help that the sponsor's logo had been concealed on shirts by hastily sewn patches from what appeared to be Gianfranco Zola's mum's old curtains.
(20) Right now I’m doing a daily commute of three hours [between Manchester and Morecambe] because I want to see my children and hear their nonsense in the morning and the cacophony of noise when I come in, about school dinner, about why I haven’t sewn someone’s trousers.” Campaigning full time became significantly easier recently when she was one of a small number of Labour candidates to receive £10,000 from the former Lib Dem peer Lord Oakeshott – money she could spend on petrol and childcare.