(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.
Whittling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whittle
Example Sentences:
(1) First, the main barriers to trade between the US and the EU are not traditional tariff barriers, which have been steadily whittled away in the decades since the second world war, but the differing regulatory regimes that operate on either side of the Atlantic.
(2) But playing with the filters means you can whittle the selection down by location and availability – handy, given there are several thousand dogs on offer in London alone.
(3) Photograph: Joe Whittle for the Guardian “It was needed,” says Phillip.
(4) The most onerous challenge for the Football Association in its search for a new England manager may no longer be whittling down a list of impressive coaches, but convincing the successful candidate that they will still have a career of note when it all falls apart.
(5) That number will be whittled down to 50 to 100 for each of 300 geographic regions identified by the company.
(6) With a commissioning strategy like this, the competitive pool is whittled down until there are only four companies in it: Serco, G4S, A4e and Capita.
(7) It started in the 1980s with constant attacks by a succession of Conservative ministers on "the permissive society" of the 1960s – the decade, its pop culture and all its associated freedoms – and has continued since then with a consistent whittling away of youth rights and privileges.
(8) How will the promised community-based system of healthcare survive, when this infrastructure of support is whittled away?
(9) For now, she said, they were concentrating on whittling down a cast of well over 300 people who had applied in the past week to run to be among the 30 Respect councillors the party will field in the local elections on 3 May.
(10) I hope more police officers will come and stand with us.” My own brother Larry Whittle, a Marine Corps veteran of the Gulf war and enrolled member of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma, also decided to show solidarity at Standing Rock.
(11) The subsequent rounds are due to follow on Thursday and the following Tuesday, by which point the parliamentary party should have whittled the choice down to the two candidates, though that could come earlier if one or more drops out early.
(12) The judges whittled down the 152 entries to six in an amicable fashion, Macfarlane said.
(13) Noel Gallagher is apparently “whittling down” more than 50 songs for a “seismic” new album, according to one of his long-time collaborators.
(14) Inside, there were articles entitled “Confused on currency?” and a centre spread giving readers “10 reasons why staying in the UK gives Scots the best of both world.” The back page was devoted to ‘sport’ with articles quoting both Sir Alex Ferguson and sprinter Brian Whittle voicing support for Scotland remaining part of the UK.
(15) He will be trying again.” Leadsom is seen as more likely than Gove to compete with home secretary May once the list of five has been whittled down to a final two.
(16) Photograph: ODFW Joe Whittle, a photographer who calls the region his home, told a story about how, long ago, wolves and berries used to go together.
(17) At the same time it was continuing to run the sales process and has reportedly whittled down a field of seven bidders to a four-strong shortlist.
(18) If the worst part of the task will be whittling his initial 30 choices down to 23 and informing the unlucky seven, ask him what he is most anticipating and Hodgson is unequivocal: "I am looking forward to that first victory and I hope it is the first game so we are off and running."
(19) The bloc has pledged to phase out subsidies for food-based energy crops, but a revised renewable energy directive released today only whittles down a cap on such biofuels from 7% in 2020 to 3.8% in 2030.
(20) 'Fostering to adopt' Whittle : "I have had foster carers come to me who have pleaded to adopt children who have been in their care for several years.