[ US /ˈhju/ ]
[ UK /hjˈuː/ ]
VERB
  1. strike with an axe; cut down, strike
    hew an oak
  2. make or shape as with an axe
    hew out a path in the rock
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How To Use hew In A Sentence

  • The question, which has been eating at Matthews for several years, is gnawing on him a couple of hours later as he decompresses at a party at Spago in Beverly Hills.
  • It felt like chewing string dipped in weed killer, but within a couple of minutes the trembling in his limbs gave way to a kind of enervated thrumming and the pounding in his head subsided to a manageable level. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • Both favour the no-frills approach, often eschewing swish restaurants to munch burgers together when they meet. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some people believe that Richard III did not murder his nephews and was not the villain he is generally thought to have been.
  • So let vs, which this chaunge of weather vew, chaunge eeke our mynds and former liues amend the old yeares sinnes forepast let vs eschew, and fly the faults with which we did offend. Amoretti and Epithalamion
  • On two consecutive nights of Hardball, Chris Matthews brought up this same trio as examples of Gore's "delusionary" thinking. Going After Gore
  • We usually open family presents with my BIL, SIL and nephew on Christmas morning.
  • round and round, while meditatively, as a cow chewing the cud, he let his eyes rest on the flat water ahead of him
  • Matthew, who is studying for his A-levels, is a fitness fanatic with a black belt in the martial art ikedo.
  • Passion abounds in this romance set on Maryland's Eastern Shore, where the rough-hewn Seth Quinn wins over Drusilla, the town's icy beauty.
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